- Professor Phillips wrote, “five black defendants would be sentenced to the ultimate sanction because of race.”
- “She meant that the Western news media had not acknowledged the strides China had made or the voices of overseas Chinese. “We are still neglected or misunderstood as either brainwashed or manipulated by the government,” she said.”
- “In another indication of racial disparities in U.S. health care, a study found that blacks in Chicago are five times more likely than suburban whites to have a limb amputated, researchers said on Monday”
- “It is likely that economic policy will again become the most important part of America’s interaction with the world. And it is likely that it will remain profoundly undemocratic.”
- According to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), gross imports of food by developing countries grew with trade liberalization, turning into a food trade deficit of more than $11 billion by 2001
- “A severe food crisis in Afghanistan – caused by rising wheat prices – threatens to further destabilise an already deeply troubled country.”
- “When you meet people who have had to go through checkpoints day in and day out, who have missed graduations, weddings, birthdays due to closures, have had their clothes stained with the blood of their friends, you realize just how heartbreaking it can be
- Harry Allen has the video – just watch it.
- “It removes bias from the equation, as an admissions officer can’t be accused of providing more or less emphasis to any criterion based on personal interests. Second, it assures that race and ethnicity are taken into account, but not given more weight t
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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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