- “In a scene in which Susan was told by her gynecologist that she might be hitting menopause, she replied, “Can I just check those diplomas because I just want to make sure that they are not from some med school in the Philippines.”"
- Here we go with the blackface reenactments of Jena Six: “In the video, three students with mud smeared across their bodies stomp on a fourth student, while two of the participants are heard to say, “Jena 6.”
- “Hispanic somehow romanticizes Spanish Imperialim in the Americas. This is probably the biggest reason for me to reject the use of the term. It’s used to glamorize an colonial past.”
- “A federal jury decided Madison Square Garden and its chairman must pay $11.6 million in damages to former New York Knicks executive Anucha Browne Sanders in her sexual harassment lawsuit.”
- “A noose found by a janitor in the locker room of the Hempstead, Long Island police department on Friday has sparked angry charges that the target was “the highest-ranking African-American officer in the department,”
- “After he was beaten, kicked and robbed, a black man was killed when he was run over by a pickup truck and dragged face down underneath it. Police had two men in custody and were investigating whether race was a factor in the death.”
- “A model strutting the catwalk is hardly revolutionary in most countries, but Afghan television’s answer to “America’s Next Top Model” is breaking boundaries and revealing the beauty under the burqa.”
- “Aliens in America gives a middle-class Pakistani kid a kurta, a fakey accent and a higher Allah-per-sentence ratio than a Wahhabi cleric. Predictably, mainstream reviews of last night’s premiere turned out almost uniformly positive”
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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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