Walk4Justice: 720 Native Women Murdered and Missing
Originally posted by our friends at Indian Country Today, TORONTO – When they walked out of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside on June 21, Gladys Radek and Bernie Williams prepared themselves for raw memories and painful moments on their fourth Walk4Justice across Canada. Survivors themselves, Radek and Williams share the grief experienced by too many First [...]
I have previously stated that I would not see the movie The Help, and I made this claim on two grounds: 1) Ablene Cooper who sued Kathryn Stockett for a mere $75,000 because Stockett stole her story had her lawsuit dismissed due to an elapsed statute of limitations. 2) Not only did the movie earn [...]
Continue reading …The personal motivations of those who make them are the most interesting things about racist choices. Because I am African American and blog at Psychology Today a friend wrote to tell me about another blogger, Satoshi Kanazawa. Kanazawa, a lecturer at the London School of Economics, recently published an answer to his own question: “Why [...]
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Originally published by our friends at Indian Country Today, In honor of Women’s History Month and the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day on March 8th, ICTMN debuts Navajo writer Valerie Taliman’s new series on the growing human rights crisis in Canada where more than 600 Native women are missing or have been murdered. [...]
Continue reading …Let’s get one thing out of the way here at the top: I don’t listen to a lot of music or watch many music videos. I also don’t follow Kanye West’s career. Basically, though I sometimes listen to it, I really don’t know crap about rap. On the other hand, I do know a little [...]
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By Sienna Baskin, The U.S. anti-trafficking law was signed by President Clinton in October, 2000, ushering us into an era where this issue has become a hot topic around the world. After 10 years of lawmaking and public debate around the problem of human trafficking, the central conversations on the Hill this past Congressional [...]
Continue reading …Enuf talk about men, focus on the women: A review of Tyler Perry’s “For Colored Girls”
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Tyler Perry’s recent film For Colored Girls, based on the “choreo-poem” written by Ntozake Shange, explores the poetic, theatrical and existential aspects of living in the world as a woman of colour. Shange’s play, whose full title is “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf”, was first staged in 1974 [...]
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By Elizabeth Parisian, Ten years have passed since the UN member nations approved the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which represent an ambitious commitment to alleviate poverty and increase wellbeing amongst the least well-off in all corners of the globe. The eight goals each address an aspect of development, from income and hunger to environmental [...]
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Exactly one year ago, I published a book entitled, Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton. My publisher, Palgrave Macmillan, has decided to re-print in paperback and they’d like me to change the title to “…from Kennedy to Obama” and add a chapter about the President. I’ve been blogging since April 2009 and haven’t [...]
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