culture
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Members of White Conn. Frat Go Unpunished After Harassing Black Sorority
Members of the University of Connecticut chapter of the black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha are speaking out against how they’re being treated by the historically white Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, especially after individual members of the frat went unpunished after making racist and sexist attacks, the school’s Daily Campus newspaper reports. “We were called whores,…
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Michael Brown’s Parents Pour Their Hearts Out to the UN
Michael Brown’s parents, Lesley McSpadden and Michael Brown Sr., spoke before a United Nations committee in Geneva on Tuesday to urge the panel to “recommend the immediate arrest” of the police officer who shot their unarmed son, a CNN report explains. They also told the committee to recommend that Ferguson, Mo., police officers put an…
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Mo. National Guard on Standby as Darren Wilson Grand Jury Verdict Nears
Soon the nation will learn if a grand jury in Missouri has decided to bring charges against police Officer Darren Wilson, the cop who fatally shot the unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown. The state’s governor, Jay Nixon, thought it would be smart to place the state’s National Guard on standby just in case a verdict is…
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The Beauty of Change: How Art Is Transforming a Notorious South Fla. Community
It was a Field of Dreams moment for the Opa-locka Community Development Corp. four years ago, when it decided that the South Florida city plagued with poverty, violence and drugs deserved a chance. So the nonprofit development organization that helps revitalize neighborhoods and keeps them affordable figured if it wanted the neighborhood to be beautiful, it first…
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Can White Teachers Be Taught How to Teach Our Children?
A North Carolina teacher tells students that killing all black people is on her bucket list if she only has 10 days to live. The principal of a middle school in Brooklyn, N.Y., promotes learning a foreign language to prospective students and their parents with a reminder that “if you don’t speak Spanish, you’re going…
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How You Can Turn Volunteering Into Full-Time Work
Whether you are 21 or 45, a position as a volunteer is a smart way to improve job skills, expand corporate experience and get a foot in the door of a new company. Many companies look to their volunteers as a readily available applicant pool. Some also require their employees to serve as volunteers to…
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The Ku Klux Klan Wants You … to Join?
The Ku Klux Klan is looking for new members, and don’t let the small detail of race stop you from applying. Race hating? That’s the old Klan. The new Klan is all about inclusion and diversity, according to John Abarr, a Montana Klansman who told the Great Falls Tribune that the KKK’s white supremacist ways, at…
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Bill Cosby: Comedian, Philanthropist, but Rape Allegations Won’t Go Away
On Monday, Bill Cosby’s website released the Cosby meme generator (now removed), an image macro that was supposed to let people create memes of the famed comedian from his Cosby Show days. But Cosby’s meme generator turned into an unfiltered vehicle to denounce the comedian over the numerous allegations of sexual assault that have plagued him…
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Report: Adrian Peterson Prepared to Sue the NFL if He Is Not Reinstated
Now that Adrian Peterson has settled the child-abuse charges against him, he wants back in the NFL and is prepared to sue the league if it continues to keep him off the field, according to sources who spoke with Yahoo Sports. According to the website, “The NFL Players Association filed a grievance against the NFL…