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Paris vs Poorest: Occupy the Throne? Or Rip it From its Foundation?
Released 47 years to the day after the assassination of Malcolm X, Yasiin Bey offers the video for his counternarrative to Jay-Z and Kanye’s luxury rap, club-banger. Equipped with the glyph and all – the stylized Arabic writing for “Yasiin” flashes on the screen throughout the video – the emcee formerly known as Mos Def […]
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Republican school board in N.C. seeks to abolish integration
The situation unfolding here in some ways represents a first foray of tea party conservatives shaping a public school system.
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Unemployed or underemployed: College educated families are becoming the new poor
These families face a never-ending treadmill of tough decisions. Do they use their income — if they have one — to pay their mortgage or feed themselves? Do they pay for a hospital visit or put dinner on the table?
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“Guns, Germs, and Steel: The roots of Inequity” Documentary Review
A native New Guinean asks, “Why do you white men have so much cargo and we New Guineans have so little?”