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By Nicholle Manners - Aug 11th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
A female advertising executive lost a sexual harassment suit against her male boss… for the good of mankind.
In a largely overlooked news piece, the…
Tags: feminism, gender equality, international, legal, Russia, workplace
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By Nicholle Manners - Aug 5th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Friday’s installment of The O’Reilly Factor highlighted the controversy surrounding Ludacris’ recent, pro-Obama release. During the show’s “Factor Follow-up” segment, John McWhorter, author of All…
Tags: 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, hip hop, John McWhorter, Laura Ingraham, music, race, right-wing punditry
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By Nicholle Manners - Aug 4th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
On Friday, the House of Representatives closed for summer recess. CSPAN left, the lights went down, and so did the gavel–but some Republicans refused to…
Tags: activism, energy, environment, House, Nancy Pelosi, politics
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By Nicholle Manners - Jul 31st, 2008 at 12:00 pm
There’s more than one historic “first” being celebrated. A short trailer for the much-anticipated first Disney movie starring a black princess is out:
Short in…
Tags: Disney, film, multimedia, race, The Princess and the Frog, video
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By Nicholle Manners - Jul 30th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Of course celebrities don’t make people vote. It makes perfectly logical sense that the best type of voter mobilization is personal connection. And it would…
Tags: activism, inequality, politics, race, TI, youth vote
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By Nicholle Manners - Jul 29th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
One hundred and forty-five years after the Emancipation Proclamation, the federal government is ready to apologize for slavery–well, at least half of it is.
This…
Tags: Congress, House, inequality, John Conyers, politics, race, Steve Cohen
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By Nicholle Manners - Jun 25th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
In yet another departure from its roots in strict music programming, MTV will now accept political ads, AdAge reports. The only catch is that the…
Tags: 2008 presidential elections, MTV, politics, youth vote
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