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PoC News in America

Election news is heating up as we get closer to November. This week we have a lot of Oscars-adjacent news.

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PoC News in America

Eid Mubarak to everyone who celebrated Ramadan!

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PoC News Around the World

It’s less than two weeks into 2015, and already the year is too much. Let’s look at the news.

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Friday News Bites: Cuba, Sydney, Happy Goats + More

Post author By Sara Habein
Post date Friday, December 19th, 2014
1 Comment on Friday News Bites: Cuba, Sydney, Happy Goats + More

Hello, fellow unicorns. This week, we’re a bit more international with our news bites, and I also have a few bonus stories that amused me. With all the horrible things that happen, it’s good to find a few points of light. Let’s get to it.

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PoC News in America

How was your weekend? This past week was a busy one for social activism.

This Week in Misogyny

Oh, dearies, it was another week of fuckery in the world. Between Rolling Stone throwing a source under the bus when inconsistencies rose in her story (cue gloating from the “false accusations!!1!” crowd), a misguided storyline on The Newsroom, and the usual assortment of random awfulness, it’s hard to see the good news. Of which there’s a […]

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PoC News in America

Another week of inspiring solidarity and protests following the tragic deaths of black men in America. Let’s get to the news.

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This Weekend Open Thread Would Rather be Protesting

Post author By [E] Liza
Post date Friday, December 5th, 2014
7 Comments on This Weekend Open Thread Would Rather be Protesting

Alas.

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Friday News Bites: #BlackLivesMatter, #AliveWhileBlack + More

Post author By Sara Habein
Post date Friday, December 5th, 2014
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Though I have a few other news stories of note that I will cover in a separate post, the past two weeks have been all about reading up on Michael Brown and Eric Garner’s deaths and the abysmal stats and stories from around our country that clearly say these two men are not isolated cases. […]

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PoC News in America

Post author By Karishma
Post date Wednesday, September 10th, 2014
4 Comments on PoC News in America

It’s been several weeks since the tragic murder of Michael Brown and in light of those events, it’s important to acknowledge how intersectionality of identities complicate the dominant news discourse and that yes, we should still be angry about the miscarriage of justice in Ferguson.

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