December 2010
29 posts
Nearly all Dominican women straighten their hair,... →
Nearly all Dominican women straighten their hair, which experts say is a direct result of a historical learned rejection of all things black
By Frances Roblesfrobles@miamiherald.com
SANTO DOMINGO — Yara Matos sat still while long,…
Mobile phones to the rescue for HIV positive... →
Pumwani Maternity Hospital, in the impoverished Nairobi neighbourhood of Eastlands, is the site of a trial project using mobile phones to help HIV-positive mothers avoid passing the virus on to their children. Juliet Wangari Njuguna is a research nurse with Kenya AIDS Control Project. She works at the Pumwani clinic to assist HIV-positive mothers. “We help with the enrolment, and as the patients...
Puerto Rico students defend university and people →
redguard:
Some 15,000 people marched through the streets of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Dec. 12, ending at La Fortaleza, the governor’s residence. They demanded the elimination of the $800 special quota the University of Puerto Rico administration imposed that would increase student’s tuition starting January 2011. Red balloons throughout the march symbolized the 10,000 students who would have...
Meteorologist Falsely Accuses Hispanic Man of... →
thedancingflame:
A meteorologist on ABC’s local New York station has been suspended after police say she made up claims she was assaulted by a Hispanic man in Central Park.
Heidi Jones reported to police Nov. 24 that a man had tried to rape her as she ran in Central Park, and the same man later tried to assault her outside her apartment. Police say the 37-year-old later admitted she fabricated...
A year long journey of loving oneself.: Some... →
There is nothing wrong with being skinny. There is nothing wrong with being fat. There is nothing wrong with being pear shaped or apple shaped or ruler shaped or shaped like a freakin’ Ace of Spades. Absolutely nothing wrong with it.
But in the same way that a straight person can’t…
Why feminists are using their eyebrows to... →
socialisimo:
What do Ava Gardner, Frida Kahlo, Jodie Foster, Keira Knightley and Brooke Shields have in common? You’ve got it – beautiful bushy eyebrows. And now you can too. A campaign led by Feministing, an online feminist community, has proposed growing a “unibrow” this month for a charitable cause of your choice.
Decembrow, inspired by the huge popularity of the unibrow in Tajikistan, is...
Study Shows Depth of Unemployment for Blacks in... →
thedancingflame:
The headline on a new report tells the bad news: “Only One in Four Young Black Men in New York City Have a Job.” The report, prepared by the Community Service Society of New York, has other unhappy news about this group — that the unemployment rate for African-American men in New York, age 16 to 24, was 33.5 percent from January 2009 through June 2010, while the labor force...
“There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love....”
– Man Ray via laeticia. (via tobia)
“There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love....”
– Man Ray via laeticia. (via tobia)
