Required Reading
One of the unfortunate aspects of being a print journalist is that I can’t share links in the newspaper, and (to my knowledge, since I don’t actually work there) the I.T. department doesn’t add links to the copies of articles they publish online. So, this marks a new feature in Redbone-Afropuff: When I have a [...]
WTF is going on in Arizona?
According to the Huffington Post and also reported in the International Business Times, Arizona state legislator Debbie Lesko has drafted a bill permitting non-religious employers to opt out of offering birth control coverage to their employees if they have a moral objection to it AND permitting those employers to ask their employees to prove they’re [...]
Deep South sexism and racism live on in Limbaugh
I’ve been reading At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance—A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power. The book is about the Civil Rights Movement as a response to sexualized violence against African American women, and one of the go-to defenses for [...]
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