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Bucking a Trend, Some Millennials Are Seeking a Nun’s Life. Cornel West's Rise and Fall by Michael Eric Dyson. Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned” is the best-known line from William Congreve’s The Mourning Bride.

Cornel West's Rise and Fall by Michael Eric Dyson

But I’m concerned with the phrase preceding it, which captures wrath in more universal terms: “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned.” Even an angry Almighty can’t compete with mortals whose love turns to hate. Cornel West’s rage against President Barack Obama evokes that kind of venom. Hip-Hop Sampling - Copyright Criminals. #HistoricPOC Is the Powerful Illustration of Black History Month Everyone Needs to See. Every President’s Executive Orders In One Chart. President Obama is due to announce an executive action Thursday, one that will change the legal status of millions of immigrants and is likely to be remembered as a major effort to change the country’s immigration system.

Every President’s Executive Orders In One Chart

The action would reportedly allow up to 4 million undocumented immigrants legal work status, and an additional 1 million protection from deportation. How Racism Created America's Chinatowns. Last month, a San Francisco tour guide was caught in a racist rant about the city's Chinatown, berating residents for "eating turtles and frogs" and for not assimilating into American culture.

How Racism Created America's Chinatowns

There's an irony to these grievances, considering that Chinatowns in the U.S. sprang up in large part because of anti-Chinese racism, and because of legal barriers that prevented assimilation. At their height, there were dozens of Chinatowns, in big metro areas like Los Angeles and Chicago and in smaller cities like Cleveland and Oklahoma City. Cool at 13, Adrift at 23. How languages evolve - Alex Gendler. 27 Badass Images Of Women Winning And Exercising The Right To Vote. In 1921, Missouri voters passed a ballot measure amending the state constitution to allow women to hold political office.

27 Badass Images Of Women Winning And Exercising The Right To Vote

This was also the first election after the passage of the 19th Amendment, granting all U.S. women the right to vote. The ability of women's votes to affect women's lives revealed itself instantly, and it's as pressing as ever in 2014. Women's reproductive rights are being threatened in three states with anti-abortion constitutional amendments on the ballot.

The 2014 midterm elections will determine how policymakers approach social programs and the minimum wage, both of which stand to impact many more women than men. Women determined the outcome of the 2012 election, but new voting restrictions in 22 states could disproportionally impact women. Nobody called Susan B. How to Transform The Odyssey into an Epic Game in Alternate Reality. (Flickr/Nick Thompson)

How to Transform The Odyssey into an Epic Game in Alternate Reality

Everytown for Gun Safety - School Shootings in America Since Sandy Hook. Since the December 2012 shooting in Newtown, CT, there have been at least 74 school shootings in America.

Everytown for Gun Safety - School Shootings in America Since Sandy Hook

How many more before our leaders pass common-sense laws to prevent gun violence and save lives? Communities all over the country live in fear of gun violence. That’s unacceptable. We should feel secure in sending our children to school — comforted by the knowledge that they’re safe. Click here to read the full report. If It's A School Week In America, Odds Are There Will Be A School Shooting. Since the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, there have been an average of 1.37 school shootings for each school week, according to data maintained by Everytown for Gun Safety, a group fighting to end gun violence.

If It's A School Week In America, Odds Are There Will Be A School Shooting

Including Tuesday's incident at a high school in Troutdale, Oregon, 74 school shootings have taken place in the approximately 18 months since the Dec. 14, 2012, Newtown shooting. The average school year typically lasts about 180 days, which means there have been roughly 270 school days, or 54 weeks, of class since the shooting at Newtown. Social Studies Texts. The Front Lines of Ferguson « I don’t know what made me buy a plane ticket to St.

The Front Lines of Ferguson «

Louis at 1:15 a.m. on Tuesday. Maybe it was remembering that feeling of helplessness and guilt after learning of the Trayvon Martin verdict while embarking on a carefree cross-country road trip. J. Cole - Be Free. Melissa Harris-Perry's Searing Tribute To Black Men Killed By Police. In a short but powerful segment on Saturday, Melissa Harris-Perry connected the recent police killing of Michael Brown to the deaths of other black men at the hands of police — and to America's history of injustice towards black people.

Melissa Harris-Perry's Searing Tribute To Black Men Killed By Police

Harris-Perry read the names of some of the hundreds of men who were killed by police across the country "in the past decade alone," from Sean Bell to Oscar Grant to Eric Garner to Brown. All of the men she mentioned were unarmed at the time of their death. In the past decade alone, these men and hundreds of others have lost their lives to police. "From 2006 to 2012 a white police officer killed a black person at least twice a week in this country," she said.

M.colorlines.com/archives/2014/08/artists_on_ferguson.html. Rap Hip-Hop Timeline 1970-1989. What Do We Teach When Kids Are Dying? #MichaelBrown. [After the trial where the man who killed Jordan Davis was not found guilty of his murder, a group of amazing educators and education activists (I was lucky to be one of the folks involved) came together to create a teaching guide for talking about Jordan Davis' killing and the trial that followed.

What Do We Teach When Kids Are Dying? #MichaelBrown

Many of the resources -- and equally as important, the frameworks for thinking about creating curriculum -- are equally applicable for creating conversations and curriculum around talking about Mike Brown. And we need to talk about Mike Brown.] When I heard that Mike Brown was shot – unarmed, multiple times – by a police officer, my thoughts immediately went to the many stories I have heard over the years from my students of color about their experiences with the police.

And the reaction of the authorities in Ferguson, MO since Mike Brown was shot by a police officer despite being unarmed has looked more like a police state than anything I can remember in America in my lifetime. Macbeth. America Is Not For Black People. Trending on Related Blogs Robin Williams' Daughter Pens Heartbreaking Goodbye to Her Father 7k people reading on Gawker America Is Not For Black People 1.7k people reading on The Concourse Robin Williams Once Bought Conan O'Brien a Bicycle to Cheer Him Up 1.2k people reading on Gawker Recommended by Greg Howard America Is Not For Black People.

Things To Stop Being Distracted By When A Black Person Gets Murdered By Police. Historical Timeline of Public Education in the US. New York City teachers' strike of 1968. World War I in Photos: A Century Later. Economy Cartoons. Political Cartoons. A People's History of the United States. Crayola Crayon Chronology. James Baldwin Debates William F. Buckley (1965) My First Year.

Www.csdp.org/research/nixonpot.txt. The Case for Reparations. And if thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing today. — Deuteronomy 15: 12–15 — John Locke, “Second Treatise” The Other Side of Immigration. Stanford History Education Group. Histsocsciframe.pdf. Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement: Marshall Ganz: 9780199757855: Amazon.com: Books.

10 American Facts You Can Use To Ruin Any July 4 Party. Waiting for SCOTUS. Home Is Where the Hatred Is. The Forgotten Story of the Freedom Schools.