A survey by NPR, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that roughly half of African-American respondents reported experiencing institutional racial discrimination in their daily lives….
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A River of Rain Connecting Asia and North America
First they censor Palestine …
Universities protect free speech for the powerful while disciplining protesters.
N.A.A.C.P. Warns Black Passengers Against Flying on American Airlines
The group pointed to “a corporate culture of racial insensitivity,” citing four episodes in which black passengers were said to have faced discrimination.
Texas girl, 10, with cerebral palsy faces deportation after trip to hospital
No heart!
Rosa Maria Hernandez, who was brought to US when she was three months old, was stopped at a checkpoint and escorted to hospital by border agents
A 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy is at risk of deportation after being stopped at a Border Patrol checkpoint and accompanied to hospital by officers who waited outside her room as she recovered from surgery.
Rosa Maria Hernandez was born in Mexico but has lived in the US since she was three months old. She was being taken from the Texas border city of Laredo to Corpus Christi for a gallbladder operation, travelling in an ambulance with a relative who is a US citizen.
Actor Natassia Malthe accuses Harvey Weinstein of rape
Try him for rape!
- Malthe said Weinstein forced himself on her in London hotel room in 2008
- Malthe says she rejected Weinstein’s advances: ‘It was not consensual’
Actor Natassia Malthe alleged on Wednesday that Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein raped her in a London hotel room in 2008 and continued to harass her while she pursued her acting career.
Malthe, who has appeared in several films, is the latest woman to accuse Weinstein of sexual assault.
Breaking: Rock and Roll legend Fats Domino dies at age 89
The American rock and roll artist was best known for his songs Ain’t That A Shame and Blueberry Hill.
The New Orleans singer sold more than 65 million records, outselling every 1950s rock and roll act except Elvis Presley.
His million-selling debut single, The Fat Man, is credited by some as the first ever rock and roll record.
An official from New Orleans coroner’s office confirmed the death, which was earlier announced by Domino’s daughter to a local television station.
Fats Domino was one of the first rhythm and blues artists to gain popularity with a white audience and his music was most prolific in the 1950s.
Domino’s music has been credited as a key influence on artists during the 1960s and 70s. Elvis Presley introduced Fats at one of his Las Vegas concerts by saying “this gentleman was a huge influence on me when I started out”.
Paul McCartney reportedly wrote the Beatles song Lady Madonna in emulation of Domino’s style.
In 1986 he was among the first inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but by his later life Domino would no longer leave New Orleans – even to accept the award.
New Orleans-born musician and actor Harry Connick Jr is among those who have paid tribute to Domino on Twitter, saying he had “helped pave the way for New Orleans piano players”.
Antoine “Fats” Domino Jr was born in New Orleans on 26 Feb 1928, the son of a violinist. His parents were of Creole origin, and French Creole was spoken in the family.
He was musically inclined from an early age and learned piano from his brother in law, the jazz banjo player, Harrison Verrett.
He was given his nickname by bandleader Bill Diamond for whom he was playing piano in honky-tonks as a teenager. He said the youngster’s technique reminded him of two other great piano players, Fats Waller and Fats Pichon.
Domino left school at the age of 14 to work in a bedspring factory by day, and play in bars by night. He was soon accompanying such New Orleans luminaries as Professor Longhair and Amos Milburn.
In the mid-1940s, he joined trumpeter Dave Bartholomew’s band, and the two co-wrote Domino’s first hit The Fat Man. Suddenly, the New Orleans sound became popular nationwide.
“Jane Doe” Case Exposes Trump’s Total Disregard for the Constitution
Star Chamber (NON) Justice – aka- crime against personal freedom and our system of law! Tags:
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Attention Media: When Teachers Have Sex With Students It’s Actually Called “Rape” | Dame Magazine
I don’t know how to describe it other than to use the word creepy. It’s creepy. It’s creepy that, when a teacher abuses or assaults a student, so many people think of that crime as being a potential gray area — of teenagers or adolescents of being capable of consent or even pursuit — that “having sex,” the thing that consenting adults do together, becomes the standard descriptor.This is a symptom, of course, of a larger problem: We are a society steeped in rape culture. The normalization and minimization of sexual abuse, sexual assault and sexual violence persists thanks to a dizzying confluence of factors, not least among them the broad cultural suspicion — among adults of both genders — that victims and survivors are asking for it, because of what they wear or don’t wear, what they say or don’t say, what they drink or don’t drink, where they go or don’t go, how fat or thin they are, whether they work late or early, how many children they have or don’t have, how many partners they have or don’t have … the list goes on and on.
Source: Attention Media: When Teachers Have Sex With Students It’s Actually Called “Rape” | Dame Magazine
Courting Democratic Ire, Republicans Open New Obama-Era Inquiries
Falling for made up Bannon fodder to divert attention fro #TraitorTrump’s Russia House The House Judiciary, Intelligence and Oversight Committees announced a pair of new investigations into Obama administration actions connected to Hillary Clinton.

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