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Number of Stay-at-Home Dads Rising During Economic Downturn

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Stay-at-home dads. When most of us hear the term, we’re likely to think of comical media portrayals of a bumbling, clueless man who happens to fall into full-time parenting by accident. Think of movies like “Mr. Mom,” or “Daddy Day Care.” Stay-at-home dads are the punchline of the joke. But that is starting to change, [...]

September 18th, 2010 | Posted in People & Community | Read More »

Reflections on a Summer of Weddings

The marriage ceremony of Anne Gibson & Tina Warinner (photo credit: Vanessa Lane)

Despite knowing such good times would result, deciding to attend a wedding is always a conflicted process for me. There are two reasons for this: 1. I do not believe in marriage; 2. I find offensive many of the traditions of the American wedding. It’s not that I don’t believe in celebrating love, or that I don’t want to participate in this celebration. Rather, I take issue with much of what marriage and weddings stand for in our contemporary culture and in the history of our country.

August 22nd, 2010 | Posted in Culture,People & Community | Read More »

Former Black Panther Kathleen Cleaver Fights For Land and Justice

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The Harris Neck Land Trust is an organization compromised of 70 African-American families and community members dedicated to returning 2,687 acres of land  taken from African-American families in 1942.
Harris Neck, GA was once home to a group of Gullah Geechee people, descendants of West African slaves in South Carolina and Georgia.  The Gullah have preserved a significant part [...]

July 20th, 2010 | Posted in People & Community | Read More »

The Incredible Height: The Life and Legacy of Dorothy Height

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Dorothy Height left behind a legacy of activism when she passed on Tuesday morning April 20, 2010. She lived for almost an entire century and has played a major role in shaping what this country has become. Dorothy Height fulfilled her desire of always wanting to work towards justice while she was alive. Height worked [...]

June 20th, 2010 | Posted in People & Community | Read More »

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