It's sad that the US remains silent on the human rights records of its allies, including Saudi Arabia.  Please sign this petition to free 4 innocent people whose lives are in danger:

https://www.change.org/p/mr-ban-ki-moon-secretary-general-of-the-united-nations-free-the-four-daughters-of-alanoud-al-fayez-arbitrarily-imprisoned-in-saudi-arabia-and ( Read more... )

From http://18millionrising.org/blog/2014/may/7/deeper-words-donald-sterling/# :

"The model minority demands conformity to specific gender roles required for maintaining the logic of straight, white, male domination. The idea of Asian female submissiveness is part of what makes the myth so potent in the white male imagination, by producing a ( Read more... )

From the Guardian's article Madonna earns the wrath of Joyce Banda - full statement:

".... It's funny, but it's also a classic takedown of the astonishing entitlement of white savior types and their puffed-up pretensions..."

Excerpt from the President's statement:If the argument is that because she is an internationally renowned star, and, ( Read more... )

What’s it like to be black at Harvard? Students at the Ivy League university are offering a picture of their experiences there with a play and a photo campaign:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2014/03/05/i-too-am-harvard-black-students-show-they-belong/
http://itooamharvard.tumblr.com/

An abused wife fires a warning shot in self-defense. That shot hit nobody, and she's facing a sentence of 60 year?!!!

Fla. woman who fired "warning-shot" could get 60 years

Then this male drug addict breaks into someone else's home and beats and strangles the occupant . If he is convicted, the most he'll get is 26 years???

20-year-old man ( Read more... )

http://politicalblindspot.com/he-exposed-steubenville-now-what/

From Ugandan passes anti-gay bill that includes life in prison: (NPR ( Read more... )

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Diana Pho's experience with racial and sexual harassment from Mike Babchik (11/11/13).  Her experience is not uncommon.

Other Asian American women have been harassed by Asian-fetish creeps since a young ageWant an easy way to make the world a better place? If you have ANY fetishization or romanticization of other cultures or ethnic groups running ( Read more... )

When my Bing homepage loaded up this morning, I saw the new death threat against Malala Yousafzai on Bing's news headlines carousel.  While I am not at all claiming that this story is not important, or that the world should not be told about it, I wonder why other activists in similar situations don't make the headlines. For example, the ( Read more... )