- “After white parents in this racially mixed city complained about school overcrowding, school authorities set out to draw up a sweeping rezoning plan. The results: all but a handful of the hundreds of students required to move this fall were black”
- BET founder Bob Johnson on racism: “when I parked my car next to the Four Seasons Hotel, I went out to get in my car and a white woman opened the back door because she thought I was a chauffeur.”
- “In 1662, the Virginia colony law declared…a child born to a black female was automatically a slave. A 1691 law determined that the bi-racial offspring of white women would be servants until they reached the age of 30.”
- “Court records showed no DNA match to Johnson, and he passed a polygraph, but the district attorney in the case is moving forward.”
- “Sylvester Johnson, who is black, says black men have a duty to protect more vulnerable residents. He wants each volunteer to pledge to work three hours a day for at least 90 days.”
- “Players can also boost their points by walking into a language center, by recycling or by correctly answering questions along the way. The more points earned, the fewer immigration officers chasing you down.”
- “A decade ago the acronym ABCD was automatically understood to mean “American Born Confused Desis.” Today Indian-American youth have taken so many strides in defining an identity that the letter C more accurately means “confident.””
- “printed an article saying “rape is a magical experience” and “rape only hurts if you fight back.”…This time…the Central Connecticut State University newspaper has published a cartoon about urinating on a 14 year old Latina”
- La Lupe: Queen of Latin Soul is airing this week on PBS’ Independent Lens program: “A long-time gay icon who was often described as the first performance artist, La Lupe was ahead of her time. “
- “DuLong takes a sensitive and informative approach to transexual, transgender and genderqueer teens, telling the stories of Andrea, Kody and James. In fact almost the entirety of the article is from their point of view and in their own words.”
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The Octavia Butler Book Club
(Click the book for the latest conversation) Feminism for Real – Jessica, Latoya, Andrea
The Same Woman – Thea
I Speak For Myself – Fatemeh
Yes Means Yes – Latoya
Sex Ed and Youth – Jessica
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