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Girlbusters: Fighting Against Gender Bias For Women in STEM

January 30, 2015

Written by Janine Ingram for the Huffington Post, January 30, 2015. Excerpts taken from Huffington Post Impact X. Read the full article on Huffington Post Impact X. Four beloved fictional characters were recently recast to runaround fake New York in fake jobs chasing really cool, CGI-created fake ghosts — and…
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Immigration Reform Debate

November 21, 2014

Boehner Says Obama’s Immigration Action Damages Presidency Article written by Ashley Parker for the NY Times, Nov. 21, 2014 Excerpts from article taken from NYTIMES.com. Read the full article on the NYTimes website. Speaker John A. Boehner said Friday that President Obama was “damaging the presidency itself” by using his executive authority…
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What Black History Month Should Be

January 30, 2014

By Theodore Johnson, Huffington Post, January 30, 2014 Black History Month is upon us once again, and with it comes a parade of facts to enlighten the nation on the contributions blacks have made to America. There will be children reciting famous lines from “I Have A Dream,” high school…
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For Women, Economic Justice a Civil Rights Issue

January 21, 2014

Written by Maya L. Harris for CNN, January 21, 2015. Excerpts of article are below. Read the full article here. “What good does it do to be able to eat at a lunch counter if you can’t buy a hamburger?” Martin Luther King Jr. asked almost 50 years ago. As…
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No, gagging over interracial marriage is not the ‘conventional view’

November 12, 2013

By Ezra Klein, Wonkblog “In his column Tuesday, Richard Cohen explores the more reactionary edge of Iowa’s Republican blogosphere. ‘Today’s GOP is not racist, as Harry Belafonte alleged about the tea party, but it is deeply troubled,’ he writes, ‘about the expansion of government, about immigration, about secularism, about the…
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Justice Department Poised to File Lawsuit Over Voter ID Law

September 30, 2013

By Charlie Savage, New York Times “Election law specialists expressed caution. Richard H. Pildes, a New York University law professor, said the Justice Department faced a complex legal challenge, ‘particularly when some of these changes, such as reducing early voting, involve measures that make voting more convenient but don’t restrict direct…
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For Native Americans, Mental Health Budget Cuts Hit Hard

September 12, 2013

By Laurel G. Morales, NPR Code Switch “Native American tribes gave up millions of acres to the federal government in the 19th century in exchange for promises of funded health care, education and housing. But time and again, those funds have been cut. The recent across-the-board federal budget cuts, known as…
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