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University of North Georgia’s catalogue shows white men beating a black man and a woman in a race. The cover of the University of North Georgia’s course catalogue does not beat around the bush: Featuring a stock photo that shows two white men in suits beating a woman and a black man at a race,…
Depression hurts. So does sexism. Photograph: Adam G Gregor/Alamy Sexism is certainly nauseating – the disgusting leers on the street, the discrimination, the violence. But those everyday expressions of misogyny could be seriously impacting our mental health as well. A study published this month in the journal Sex Roles reveals that some of the sexism…
CNN tonight reevaluated “hands up, don’t shoot” in the wake of the DOJ report that it never happened, and brought on a panel that nearly came to blows arguing over the report’s findings and the “hands up” symbol. Brian Stelter filed a report on the media coverage of Ferguson and the gesture, even acknowledging the…
Apple calls its Health app “an entirely new way to use your health and fitness information.” But the app doesn’t support tracking one major kind of health information: The menstrual cycle. As Fusion’s Kashmir Hill points out, Apple rolled out an update to Health in iOS 8.2 that promised significant improvements. Unfortunately, those improvements didn’t come…
Ashley Judd, like so many women on the Internet, has faced extreme harassment online. But over the weekend, the actress — who happens to be a well-known University of Kentucky Wildcats fan — was the victim of an even more radical brand of trolling than usual, because she dared to tweet about sports. On Sunday,…
The task of historians in our time is to unbury the buried. For journalists, it is to see that the truth of events is never interred—or at least that enough of it is available for later historians to dig up the whole. The age is impoverished in both respects. Christian Appy, an accomplished historian of…
According to a new Wall Street Journal /NBC News Poll, the voters who will pick the next Republican presidential nominee will likely be overwhelmingly white. In the poll, 95 percent of the respondents who said they were GOP primary voters were white. Remarkably, this is even less racially diverse than the American population as a whole…
Story highlights Martese Johnson: “We are one community. We deserve to respect each other” He was injured during an arrest, and a photo of his bloodied face was distributed Virginia’s governor has ordered an investigation of the incident The university’s Black Student Alliance distributed a photograph, showing what it said was Martese Johnson, 20, during…
Johnson sustained head injury during arrest, governor calls for investigation into excessive use of force in arrest by Chloe Heskett | Mar 18 2015 | 23 hours ago This is a developing story, and will continue to be updated with the latest information available. Martese Johnson, a third-year student in the College and a member…
Another day, another SMH-worthy police brutality incident. A black student from the University of Virginia was brutally beaten by police after the student allegedly attempted to enter a bar with a fake I.D., according to ABC reports. After 20-year-old Martese Johnson was denied entry in a bar on St.Patrick’s Day after allegedly attempting to enter…