The Strauss-Kahn case will make immigrants, particularly poor immigrant women of color, less likely to report crimes of sexual assault and rape, especially when the alleged perpetrator is a powerful, affluent white European male. Slate has a remarkable rebuttal against the Manhattan D.A.’s characterizations of the alleged inconsistencies of Nafissatou…
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The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, a 4-acre commemorative site on the National Mall, will be officially dedicated on Aug. 28. It is the first memorial to be dedicated [on the National Mall] to a non-white leader and an African-American. Twenty-six-year-old Martin Luther King, Jr. was the chosen leader…
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A new study finds that black women have lost more jobs than black men since the recession began in December 2007, notwithstanding the fact that most black women are the heads of family households, thereby making black women even more economically vulnerable. From Crains New York: While the recession hit…
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Women with doctorate level degrees make as much their male counterparts with an undergraduate degree. From ThinkProgress.org: Kay Steiger pulls out this chart from Georgetown’s Center on Education and the Workforce, which notes that, when it comes to lifetime earnings, women with a Ph.D. make as much as men with…
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