culture
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Maine Nurse: Stop Ebola Quarantine or I’ll Sue
They say the CIA ain’t got nothin’ on a woman with a plan. The nurse who returned from West Africa and was quarantined by the state of Maine because of concerns that she might have contracted Ebola while treating patients overseas defied her state’s orders to stay inside her home and went for a bike ride…
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Chef Carla Hall Uses Kickstarter to Open Restaurant
Carla Hall has hit her Kickstarter goal to open her new eatery, according to the Associated Press. Hall, of Top Chef fame and currently co-host of ABC’s The Chew, set out to raise funding for her Southern-style restaurant. She used the funding site Kickstarter to raise the $250,000 needed to open Carla Hall’s Southern Kitchen in…
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Leaving a Great Guy to Get Back With a Bad Ex Just Isn’t a Good Move
My boyfriend cheated and abandoned me and my kids. I didn’t even know he was leaving. I came home and his things were gone. I started dating a great guy, but after a year my ex has returned and wants to get married. The new guy has been there for that year, helping me with…
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Yes, the Harassment Video Has Its Problems—but Mostly, It Shows How Indefensible Street Harassment Is
By now you’ve seen the street-harassment video directed and produced by Rob Bliss and starring Shoshana B. Roberts for the nonprofit organization Hollaback that’s all over the Internet. The two-minute video is cut from 10 hours of footage of Roberts walking through New York City. Throughout her walk she’s harassed by more than 100 men,…
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Street Harassment Is a Problem—No Doubt—but Here’s Why That Video Didn’t Help the Debate
If the instantly notorious street-harassment video was intended to make men more sympathetic to the horrors women deal with on a daily basis, it didn’t succeed. Called simply, “10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman,” the video has now been viewed more than 15 million times on its original YouTube page, but it…
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Judge Offers Stunning Reversal of Sentence After Man Recants Double-Murder Confession
A prisoner who was instrumental in a case that led to the abolishment of the death penalty in Illinois was released Thursday after recanting his confession in that case. According to the Associated Press, Alstory Simon’s confession to murder led to the release of Anthony Porter in 1999. Porter, who spent 16 years on death row…
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Carmen de Lavallade Still Captivates Onstage at 83
Carmen de Lavallade calls herself a woman of her time. During her one-woman stage show, As I Remember It, the 83-year-old star dancer of stage and screen recounts growing up during the Great Depression and being raised by her father after her mother died in a sanatorium. She remembers listening to programs on the radio and…
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Charges Refiled Against Homeless Ariz. Woman Who Left Kids in the Car While on Job Interview
The homeless Arizona woman who was arrested after she left her two children in the car while she went to a job interview has had charges against her reinstated after authorities say she failed to follow court guidelines conditional to her release. Shanesha Taylor found herself at the center of a national debate surrounding child…
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Halloween ‘Lynching’ Scene Taken Down After Neighbors Complain
Offensive Halloween costumes and displays have begun to rear their ugly heads. A Halloween display depicting a black family hanging from a tree has been removed by military officials from a home located at Fort Campbell, Ky. According to Raw Story, the person responsible for the display agreed to take it down and said that…
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Illinois Substitute Teacher Calls Students the N-Word
Illinois eighth-graders Mea Thompson, Zaria Daniel and two other students were working in a classroom group earlier this week when, they say, a substitute teacher referred to them as “African American.” “All four of us that were sitting there got offended because none of us are from Africa,” Mea told NBC Chicago. “I’m Jamaican. So…