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...active the entire time. Contrary to widely held opinion, black women have made huge contributions to American history that go well beyond simply giving birth to and supporting black men. Women such as Ida B. Wells, Ella Baker, and Shirley Chisholm (whom I’m ashamed to admit that I myself never heard of until I came to college) each made complex contributions to the social and political history of the United States. Thanks to Wells, the issue of lynching was forced to the front of the national conscience. Baker, among her many accomplishments, led significant grassroots efforts toward...
...after the motivational grunt of obedience that soldiers give their superiors. "We females do combat ops," says Sergeant Brandy Everett, 25, a self-confessed hooah girl from Rocky Mountain, N.C. "And you know what? I enjoy it." Still, some women in the military--and a good number of men--admit that the dangers of serving in Iraq have been jarring. Many enlisted before the Iraq war, when military life for privates was much the same as working in, say, McDonald's, only you had to salute your bosses. "I thought I'd be working in a hospital," says medic Sergeant...
...legal system to work." Even if the jailed witness changes testimony on the stand--and prosecutor Goldberg says she can't remember a murder trial in which someone hasn't backtracked on his or her story--the witness's mere presence in court allows the prosecutors to admit earlier statements pointing toward the defendant's guilt...
...forced to choose between working or having a family. I came to Germany from Italy to study at a university in Munich. My idea of Germany was one of a technologically driven, progressive and modern society. Eighteen years later, after working and having my children here, I have to admit that the picture is a very different one: women have to cope with an entrenched patriarchal attitude in both the workplace and society and are offered very little support and empathy when striving to have a career and a family. I also learned two words I had never experienced directly...
...Bible” West?The video itself is another “cinematic” music video, which, either despite or because of all their pretensions, tend to feel like the products of film school grads not quite good enough for Hollywood but not quite honest enough to admit it. This video could have been perfectly enjoyable, if only someone involved had exercised a bit of modesty and just tried to make a music video, not a feature film.Taking to heart the song’s chorus (“I gotta testify, come up in the spot looking extra...