Katie Grimes
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Jon Stewart and the Daily Show Crew on Libya
This is one of those times when Jon Stewart says it best. In this first video, Stewart interviews “Senior Libyan Correspondent” Aasif Mandvi on the war, er, I mean “coalition partnership imposing a no fly zone through a military operation”… Continue reading
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It’s Adam and Eve AND Adam and Steve
Often, the fact that, in Scripture, the first human beings were a man (Adam) and a woman (Eve) and that this man and woman had a sexual relationship is assumed to be clear and irrefutable evidence that homosexuality is wrong.… Continue reading
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Church Teaching and Violence Against LGBT Persons
Although the magisterium of the Catholic church insists that violence against homosexuals is always wrong, it also depicts homosexuals as a grave threat to society: homosexual unions do “violence” to children raised within these unions[1], homosexuals are a threat to… Continue reading
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Demonizing African-American Mothers; Preserving White Space
On Tuesday in an Ohio courtroom, Kelly Williams-Bolar, a mother of two with no criminal record, was sentenced to 10 days in jail and placed on 3 years probation for sending her children to school in a school district in… Continue reading
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“Women’s Work Is Real Work!”
This woman is amazing. Christine Yvette Lewis appeared on The Colbert Show last night to promote the work of an organization called Domestic Workers United, which she describes as “a movement that organizes workers to assert their rights in the… Continue reading
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Breast Cancer and Structural Racism
As Dr. David Ansell of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago explains, black women are significantly more likely than white women to die from breast cancer. The gap is so dramatic that in Chicago, every year, “3,200 black people die… Continue reading
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A Follow-Up To “Incarceration, Racism, and the Preservation of White Supremacy”
I came across this post by Sara Mayeux, who is guest-blogging for Ta-Nehisi Coates over at The Atlantic. In it she directs our attention to a podcast by two historians of mass incarceration. From this podcast, she excerpts for us… Continue reading
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Incarceration, Racism, and the Preservation of White Supremacy
Today, “the United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South African did at the height of apartheid…In the District of Columbia, [for example,] it is estimated that three out of four young black men (and nearly… Continue reading