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What Is The Ethnic Council? Eliding Racism at the DNC
Wednesday morning, a line formed through the Charlotte Convention Center as delegates, community members, and media waited to enter the African American Caucus to hear...
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Antiblack Geographies, or What the Charlotte YMCA and the Confederate Military Have in Common
Did you know that Charlotte’s Central City Dowd YMCA is on the same site as the Confederacy’s North Carolina Military Institute? This does not imply...
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Michelle Obama's Speech and Its Subtle Appeal to Republican Values?
Michelle Obama’s speech during Tuesday night’s Democratic National Convention gathering has provoked talk and tears, and rightly so—she delivered. Political insiders, media outlets, and convention...
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The Limits of Reproductive Politics: Defining Women’s Issues at the DNC
Early this morning, on the train from the Charlotte suburbs into the city center for the Democratic National Convention, I met a woman visiting the...
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Voices Marginalized at the DNC: WorldCantWait.net
Outside Community Outreach Christian Ministries, the church where Jesse Jackson is speaking for the Progressive Democrats of America, just before the Democratic National Convention. “The...
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Juarez Murders: Mexican Government Unveils Memorial For Slain Women
Mexico’s secretary of state, Alejandro Poire, will unveil the finished memorial for the women slain in Ciudad Juarez Thursday, according to state officials. The structure has been in the...
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The Spaces Between Us: Off-site at the DNC, Jesse Jackson speaks of need to 'democratize democracy'
Downtown Charlotte is abuzz as Democratic National Convention delegates, media outlets, and big-name politicos make their way to caucus meetings and other preliminary events underway...
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A User-Friendly DNC?
The Democratic National Convention is promoting the 2012 Charlotte convention as the “the most open and accessible convention in history.” The DNC begins with free...
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There Is No Water in Our Survival Kit
By Fakhra Hassan The date is 28th April, 2012. The city is Lahore. The venue is the Lahore Press Club. On behalf of the Institute...
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Infant Antibiotics Linked with Heavier Weight
Young farm animals given antibiotics gain weight quickly. Now a new study suggests that the same thing may happen to human infants treated with antibiotics....
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You Betta Werk!: Professors Talk Style Politics
By Tanisha C. Ford In recent years, appropriate attire for professors has been a hotly debated topic. Scholars from various disciplines have offered instruction, fashion...
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Go (or don't go?) Topless Day
By Marie-Laure Rives Today is Go Topless Day! GoTopless.org is a U.S.-based organization founded in 2007, claiming that women have the same constitutional right as men...
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In Remembrance of Helen Gurley Brown: A Complicated Feminist Hero
By Mandy Van Deven Media icon and cultural pioneer Helen Gurley Brown passed away August 13 at the age of 90. Although I saw her name on...
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Iranian Government Bans Women from Universities
A new policy in Iran, which was announced for the first time on August 6, will allow universities to ban women from 77 BA and...
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Dear Congressman Akin
Dear Congressman Akin, So I woke up with my boyfriend on top of me. He had just “finished.” I was out of it, high as...
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Remembering and Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Aaronette M. White
It is with deep sadness and profound devastation that I share that radical Black/Pan-African feminist activist and social psychologist Aaronette M. White, Ph.D., recently made...
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Women Fight for Their Rights in the New Tunisia
In Tunisia, a country that has been labeled “the most secular and progressive of the transitioning countries,” that took part in the Arab Spring uprisings, deep...
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Thinking "Out of Bounds": Masculinity, Male-to-Male Affection, and Athletics
By: David J. Leonard and Darnell L. Moore In a recent documentary, which was featured on NewsOne, Sylvia Harvey “explores the strange double-standard that allows...