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THE GOOD NEWS: A huge crowd came out to support a gay football player being harassed by the Westboro Baptist Church. Jake Bain, a star running back and senior at John Burroughs School in Ladue, Missouri, has gone through a lot to earn his football scholarship to Indiana State University. He made headlines last …
Boğaziçi University, 2012. Wikicommons/ Turkmessage. Some rights reserved.From June 6 to Augus 4, 2016, I was a visiting assistant professor at the Political Science Department of Bogazici (Bosphorus in Turkish) University, the first American higher education institution founded abroad. This account is of my personal experience of the traumatic events that happened last year in …
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Last year, a 10-year-old golf phenom from north Virginia was ordered by a judge to stop playing competitively for one year as part of a seven-year custody battle between her parents, Michael Vechery and Florence Cottet-Moine. According to the girl’s father, she had won 22 out of 33 kids tournaments in the past two years. …
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Rio de Janeiro. Mike Egerton/PA Wire/PA Images. Todos os direitos reservados. This article is published as part of our series Which Violence in Latin America? in partnership with the University of Santiago in Chile Approximately one year ago, a series of massacres within several Brazilian jails brought to light a problem that, far from being non-existent, had …
THE GOOD NEWS: Although President Trump holds animosity for his predecessor, his wife appears to like Barack Obama. Since taking on the role of first lady, Melania Trump has sent mixed messages about her relationship with her husband. She’s appeared to refuse to hold his hand in public and body language experts say she looked …
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Sheila Scoular (centre) with Helen Watson, Chair of Church End & Monkhams ward, and fellow Labour Party campaigners in Ilford North constituency. Trainee NHS radiographer Syed Siddiqi, aged 30, is an east London lad with Bengali parents. 62 year old Sheila Scoular, a former computer professional, suffers from multiple sclerosis along with cognitive and other …
My father’s in prison for killing a woman. I was raised by a notorious pimp from the South Side of Chicago. Up until age 13, I, like millions of other young brothers, not only thought this was the norm but that I was on a fast track to repeat the doomed lineage of black men who …
Read More “How Black Male Athletes Are Redefining What It Means To Empower Women”
Kavya Chandrasiri, who created this image, 'Accept the Rohingya' is 12 years old. All rights reserved.Two months ago, 20 days into the latest round of indiscriminate, unimaginable violence against them, I posted an article on the genocide of the Rohingya. My emotions were raw. My reaction to the stories and images coming out of Myanmar …
USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced to a maximum 175 years in prison on Jan. 24 for sexually assaulting over 150 young female athletes. At his sentencing hearing, the athletes came together to share their stories of abuse, which helped to determine Nassar’s sentence. “I can’t think of a better scenario,” said Elaine Ducharme, a …
Read More “Chrissy Teigen And John Legend Pledge $200k To Time’s Up In Honor Of USA Gymnastics”
Jasmin Siddiqui from the street art project "Herakut" stand in the exhibition "Colours of Resilience" in Frankfurt Main, Germany, 06 June 2014. The exhibition deals with pictures and memories of Syrian refugee children in the various refugee camps that they have visited. Boris Roessler/DPA/Press Association Images. All rights reservedOn 28 March 2011, less than two …
Read More “Syrian cultural policies in Turkey: Islamists and secularists beyond the wall – Part II”
