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Football Betting: How to Analyze Statistics for Successful Bets

Football Betting: How to Analyze Statistics for Successful Bets

Football betting is not just a game of chance. It's a complex science that requires statistical analysis, understanding of...

The Partners of Neighborhood Stabilization

The Partners of Neighborhood Stabilization

By Miriam Axel-Lute, associate director of the National Housing Institute and editor of Shelterforce, This…

No Matter What… Every Baby Matters

By Dr. Arthur Ruebin James MD, Infant Mortality Advocate, It was reported Sunday that a Toledo, Ohio infant body was…

What Can FHFA Learn from the Banks’ Big Mistakes?

By National Low Income Housing Coalition, This post is part of an ongoing series based on…

From Burden to Boon: REOs Can Expand Housing Choice

By Debby Goldberg, National Fair Housing Alliance, This post is part of an ongoing series based on…

A Continued Pattern of Abuse

By Liz Ryan Murray, National People’s Action, This post is part of an ongoing series based on…

Homeowners Can’t Afford Another Missed Opportunity

By Janis Bowdler, National Council of La Raza, This is another entry in a series based…

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American Indian Painters Travel to Paris, Bust a Few Stereotypes

By Dominique Godreche, from our friends at Indian Country Today, Eleven Native artists went to Paris late last year for an art show titled Oklahoma Painters, which was part of the sixth annual Art en Capital event at the massive Grand Palais. The exhibit was set up by curator Russell Tall Chief, Osage, director of arts & exhibitions…

Two Americans: Two Citizens Face to Face at Each End of the Immigration Debate

New documentary explores local enforcement of immigration laws and the separation of families in Maricopa County, Arizona. Originally published in Barriozona Magazine Phoenix, Arizona – A new documentary about immigration in Maricopa County, Arizona produced in the place known as “ground zero” of the immigration debate was presented in a Phoenix theater on May 31. Two…

Another Real Tragedy in the Trayvon Martin Story

By now everyone is familiar with the story of 17-year old Trayvon Martin.  Visiting a family friend with his father, Trayvon fatefully walked to the corner store for an ice tea and skittles and never again would see his friends or family after a violent confrontation with self-appointed neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman. This story,…

Another Real Tragedy in the Trayvon Martin Story

Remembering the hidden victims of 9/11

  By Chandra S. Bhatnagar, For all New Yorkers, the attacks of September 11th, 2001 are indelibly etched in our collective memory.  The chaos, confusion, and sadness that pervaded, the emotional phone calls made and received, the uncertainty about what was yet to happen – all of these recollections are still fresh in our mind’s…

Uri Avnery on Israel and Palestine

  Uri Avnery is an Israeli peace activist, journalist and writer.  He is famous for crossing the lines during the Battle of Beirut to meet Yassir Arafat on July, 3, 1982. This was the first time the Palestinian leader ever met with an Israeli. Avnery is also the founder of the Gush Shalom (Peace Bloc)…

Women

Trend Alert: Policing Women’s Behavior

During the March 2012 Women in the World summit at New York’s Lincoln Center, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered these candid remarks on patriarchy and women’s rights: “Why extremists always focus on women remains a mystery to me. But…

What can we learn from the Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexual violence case?

  Sexual violence and the criminal justice system Co-authored by Melissa Sontag Broudo, Esq. attorney…

Walk4Justice: 720 Native Women Murdered and Missing

  Originally posted by our friends at Indian Country Today, TORONTO – When they walked…

Rounding up predators

  Originally published by our friends at Indian Country Today, In honor of Women’s History…

Criminal Justice

Race and Death: Breathing While Black

By Tom Rudd, Director of Education and Emerging Research, Kirwan Institute, Death is inevitable. In…

Implicit Bias and (Mis)Perceptions

Implicit Bias and (Mis)Perceptions

A month after his passing, Trayvon Martin’s untimely death at age 17 continues to saturate…

Black Men, Boys Deserve Better

By Tristan Wilkerson, My youngest brother turned 19 yesterday.  He is young, athletic, smart, respectful, charming,…

Another Real Tragedy in the Trayvon Martin Story

Another Real Tragedy in the Trayvon Martin Story

By now everyone is familiar with the story of 17-year old Trayvon Martin.  Visiting a family friend with his father, Trayvon fatefully walked to the corner store for an ice tea and skittles and never again would see his friends…

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