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LaVena Johnson’s Story Gets Noticed

by Cara July 28, 2008

Color of Change has picked up the story of LaVena Johnson and sent out an email to all of their subscribers asking them to take action. You can read their full email and take action here. This is, of course, good news for LaVena Johnson’s family and those who have been working on her case. [...]

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Hey, asshole

by Cara March 29, 2008

You want to know what was definitely not a reason for my posting about the Sharpton/NAACP debacle? So that conservative assholes could use it as fodder to apologize for the white rapists, call the victims of that crime drunk sluts with “humper’s remorse,” use Sharpton as some kind of bizarre comparison to Obama’s Reverend Wright, [...]

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Updates and Things

by Cara March 29, 2008

A few stories I’ve recently blogged about have some updates: Yesterday, I wrote about a woman who was forced to undergo a painful process of removing her nipple piercings before she could board a plan, apparently for the amusement of the male security officers. The TSA has responded to the situation: The TSA said Friday [...]

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Al Sharpton and the NAACP Support Dunbar Village Rapists

by Cara March 24, 2008

This is important. Do you remember the Dunbar Village rape case? I’m not sure how you could forget; this is the case where a woman was gang raped by 10 men in her own home for over three hours, forced to have sex with her own 12-year-old son and survived an attempt to light both [...]

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