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Rachel Dolezal: Black or White?

June 29th, 2015

Rachel Dolezal was thrust into the national spotlight when her White parents spoke to the press and identified their daughter as a white woman who, for years, had been posing as Black in Spokane, Washington. Dolezal was the director of the Spokane chapter of t Continue Reading »

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Pope Says Climate Change is Real, and it's Our Fault

June 29th, 2015

Francis Said What? Pope Francis recently released his encyclical, the open letter titled “Laudato Si” and subtitled “On Care For Our Common Home.” As expected, the 187 page document is a call for a major shift in cultural perspectives on environmental Continue Reading »

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Supreme Court Rules on Gay Marriage

June 26th, 2015

This post was last updated on Wednesday, July 1, 2015 to reflect continued events and challenges in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision. The conservative Supreme Court has just ruled in favor of marriage equality, bringing it to all 50 states! This w Continue Reading »

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A Heritage of Hate

June 24th, 2015

Since 2009, we have been saying that the Confederate battle flag is not some simple display of Southern heritage, as many of its defenders would claim. Rather, it represents a heritage of hate going back centuries. Continue Reading »

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Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Remembering Kalief Browder

June 15th, 2015

Last Saturday, a young man named Kalief Browder took his own life at the age of 22. Browder spent the last six years of his life as an example of the brokenness of the American justice system. Continue Reading »

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High-pocrisy

June 3rd, 2015

Should pot smokers go to jail? Many politicians on both sides of the aisle sure think so, despite having a hazy past with pot themselves. Presidential candidate Jeb Bush is one such person. Continue Reading »

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The New Normal: Marriage Equality is an International Right

June 2nd, 2015

Very soon, the Supreme Court of the United States will make decisions about several landmark cases concerning same-sex marriage. Should the justices decide that denying same-sex couples the right to marry is unconstitutional, it would create a fast track for m Continue Reading »

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Making Sense of the Josh Duggar Scandal

May 29th, 2015

A lot of ink, digital and otherwise, has been spilled over the incestuous child molestation scandal surrounding TV's Duggar family, the darlings of the conservative Christian “quiverfull” movement. The chatter around the scandal can be confusing, so let's Continue Reading »

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Kill 'Em All?

April 27th, 2015

For many years, lethal injection has been the preferred method of state-sanctioned executions in America's prisons, but that may not be true for long. The ethics of lethal injection have been called into question multiple times in the past decade and now chemi Continue Reading »

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Grave Concerns

April 23rd, 2015

Is Heaven segregated? Is there one section reserved for blacks and perhaps a separate, but equal section for whites? If not, then why are so many historical cemeteries still segregated? Continue Reading »

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