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Fighting Racism and Misogyny Requires Gratitude and Forgiveness, Not Hate

So, this happened. It's hard for me to figure out what's more disgusting about this video. The slurs? The fact that this woman spewed out the foulest language imaginable in front of her two young kids? The ease with which she jumped to racist talk when angry? As the man in the video says, racism …

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Stop Violence Against Women Now

Fifty-three years ago on this day, Patria, Maria, and Antonia Mirabal were beaten to death by henchmen of the dictator Rafael Trujillo, leader of the Dominican Republic at that time. The Mirabal sisters were known dissidents of Trujillo's tyrannical regime. Trujillo's reign over the peninsula was brutal marked by a suspension of civil liberties and …

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