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The Hunting Ground
Read more: The Hunting GroundThe Hunting Ground Is Shifting the Culture on Campuses Despite the white noise campaign to discredit, there has been tremendous and unprecedented progress in new campus policies and regulations. The backlash claims that some of the campus rape date was…
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I’ve just received an honorary doctorate at 18 – but that doesn’t matter
Read more: I’ve just received an honorary doctorate at 18 – but that doesn’t matterThis week, I got to make history. At 18 years of age, I received an honorary doctorate from the University of London for my work in climate justice, making me the current youngest holder of the award globally. Having not…
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Philando Castile: remembering his life through the power of art
Read more: Philando Castile: remembering his life through the power of artIt all started a few months ago, when the Minneapolis Institute of Art got a phone call from Valerie Castile. Castile is the mother of Philando Castile, the 32-year-old black man who was shot and killed by a police officer…
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The Promised Land
Read more: The Promised LandContemporaryand Article: Armitage, born in Nairobi, elaborates upon the contradictory dynamics in contemporary Kenya. Through his painterly language, the artist filters the various spheres that mark both the collective and individual experience in his country of origin — from brief…
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Educational architecture: a floating school in Bangladesh
Read more: Educational architecture: a floating school in BangladeshWhat inspired you to build a school on a boat? As a native of a flood-prone community I saw first-hand the hardship of riverside communities who have restricted access to education and the opportunities it affords. With roads impassable during…
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Music that Propelled the Indigenous Rights Movement
Read more: Music that Propelled the Indigenous Rights Movement“The Red Power Movement of the 1960s and 70s was a time of profound social change and progress for American Indians in the United States and Canada. In her outspokenness about the injustices facing Indigenous people, Buffy Sainte-Marie also sang…
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Washington, DC climate protesters drag paint on glass cover of art sculpture
Read more: Washington, DC climate protesters drag paint on glass cover of art sculptureClimate protesters in Washington, D.C. were handcuffed on Thursday after they dragged paint on a glass cover protecting an art sculpture. The incident happened at the National Gallery of Art by the activism group Declare Emergency in an attempt to…
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Former NRA president tricked into gun violence prevention video
Read more: Former NRA president tricked into gun violence prevention videoA gun violence prevention group has released videos in which they trick famous pro-gun figures into addressing a sea of empty chairs, representing children and teenagers who were shot and killed before they could graduate from high school. Change the…
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Gandhi Begins Fast in Protest of Caste Separation
Read more: Gandhi Begins Fast in Protest of Caste SeparationOn September 16, 1932, in his cell at Yerwada Jail in Pune, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest of the British government’s decision to separate India’s electoral system by caste. A leader in the Indian campaign for…
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Restored Tennessee Rep. Pearson charts progressive path
Read more: Restored Tennessee Rep. Pearson charts progressive pathTennessee Rep. Justin Pearson never guessed he’d be expelled for leading a gun control protest on the House floor after a deadly school shooting. Nor did he predict that he’d be propelled into the national spotlight, placing his state at…
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Spotify removes Neil Young’s music after he objects to Joe Rogan’s podcast
Read more: Spotify removes Neil Young’s music after he objects to Joe Rogan’s podcastSpotify has removed famed singer-songwriter Neil Young’s recordings from its streaming platform. On Monday, Young had briefly posted an open letter on his own website, asking his management and record label to remove his music from the streaming giant, as…
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‘Zombie’: The Story Behind The Cranberries’ Deathless Classic
Read more: ‘Zombie’: The Story Behind The Cranberries’ Deathless ClassicPresaged by shimmering spin-off hits “Dreams” and “Linger,” The Cranberries’ landmark debut album, Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?, suggested its creators had taken up the baton handed down by jangly indie-pop classicists The Smiths and The…