Sunday Blip Herman Cain’s Ties to Koch Brothers Amanda Knox’s lie: Blame it on an innocent black man Anita Hill Speaks 20 Years Later WATCH: Anita Hill’s Keynote Address Obama to dedicate MLK Memorial Schools scrambling to add lessons on LGBT Americans DNA of woman who lived to 115 sequenced…
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Saturday Blip ‘Occupy’ protests go worldwide Health Law to Be Revised by Ending a Program White House tweaks Boehner on Jobs Plan Student Issues Haven’t Gained Momentum at #OccupyWallStreet The Impact of Employer Responsibility Under the Affordable Care Act Thomas Confirmation Hearings Had Ripple Effect Analysis of Florence v. Board…
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Chilean girls stage ‘occupation’ of their own school in education rights protest; For five months, girls demanding free university education for all have defied police to occupy their state school. From The Guardian: Sleeping on a tiled classroom floor, sharing cigarettes and always on the lookout for police raids, the…
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This week the blackwoman re-watched the HBO documentary about the election of Barack Obama. So glad I did. God bless PVR’s or DVR’s or whatever you call them. It was good to relive an exciting time and in ways that I find surprising, still be moved by a moment when…
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From the Antislavery Literature Project: The goal of the Antislavery Literature Project is to increase public access to a body of literature crucial to understanding African American experience, US and hemispheric histories of slavery, and early human rights philosophies. These multilingual collections contribute to an educational consciousness of the role…
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From ImmigrationProf Blog: A report issued today by Human Rights First reveals that despite a 2009 commitment to overhaul the immigration detention system, the United States continues to hold the overwhelming majority of its nearly 400,000 detained asylum seekers and other civil immigration law detainees in jails and jail-like facilities…
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Criminal InJustice† is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Criminal InJustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm CST. 15 Years of Giving Voice to Women and Transgender…
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