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A Sacred Encounter with Erykah Badu’s Controversial Nude Video

By Tamura Lomax

…confines of racist and sexist imaginations, which mark black women as both repulsive and fascinating simultaneously. Some even imagined taking things into their own hands. Rebecca Lewis, a middle-aged white woman interviewed by CBS news who witnessed the production said, “I was thinking about going down there and whoopin’ her…but I was on the phone with the police, too…I called the police…I was very offended. There were too many kids, women, and c…

How (and Why) A Determined Sit-In Worked

By Daniel Schultz

…cratic fundraising off the sit-in prove they weren’t serious? No more than Republican fundraising off repealing the Affordable Care Act. The point here was to get political leverage. One way to do that is to raise ad money so they can show how Republicans have failed to take action. That’s why the sit-in ended after a day: it only took its organizers that long to accomplish their goals. Wait, the protestors didn’t want to pass their bill? There wa…

Where are the Clergy? A Report from Occupy DC

By Sarah Posner

…te Glass-Steagall as a concrete suggestion that could go a long way toward repairing the economic system. (Glass-Steagall was the 1933 law, repealed in 1999, which mandated the separation of commercial and investment banking activities; its repeal led to the financial services products that were central to the catastrophic economic collapse of 2008.) Actions with Consequences In the main, the sign listing the Occupy DC goals was heavier on wonkery…

Terror In South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…ame. I believe we were all like Thomas, and said, “we believe.” As Reuters reports, the suspected shooter’s Facebook profile shows him wearing patches of the flags of apartheid-era South Africa and Rhodesia and sitting on a car with a license plate bearing the words “Confederate States of America.” He reportedly said, after sitting for an hour next to Pinckney and other worshippers at Emanuel, and after shooting them, and after a worshipper attemp…

Romney Had No Clue as to Obama Ground Game

By Joanna Brooks

…n Ohio. And eavesdropped on an Obama canvasser. I mean, I spent 45 minutes phone-banking the parking garage of a lowly San Diego field office with four children under nine years old hopped up on Doritos and doing laps around my folding chair, and even under those suboptimal circumstances I could tell right away that Obama’s data was even better than it was in 2008 and that there was hardcore focus on the 18- to 29-year-old set. And, mind you, I’m…

Abortion’s Not in Kansas Anymore?

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…edical providers,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights. The Center, a global legal advocacy organization dedicated to women’s reproductive health, is filing a federal lawsuit on behalf of two other Kansas abortion doctors affected by the new requirements. “The regulations in Kansas are extremely rigid and have nothing to do with medical safety. Neither hospitals nor ambulatory surgical centers are held to th…

U.S. Religious Right Groups Support Move Toward ‘Illiberalism’ of Hungary and Poland; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Montreal in August. A new international coalition, the Global LGBTQI Francophone Initiative” is in the process of coming together and working together “to end governmental and societal repression of sexual and gender minorities.” A U.S. vote against a United Nations resolution condemning the death penalty for “same-sex relations” and other acts provoked widespread outrage, leading U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley to tweet, “Fact: There was…

Book Bannings Are Bad Enough, But Where Those Involved Are Considered Demonic, the Stakes Could Get Much Higher

By Frederick Clarkson

…o be known as the “bonfire of the vanities.” Wagner wrote in his 2008 book Dominion! How Kingdom Action Can Change the World, that “after Savonarola prayed and prophesied”: “The wicked city government [of Florence] was overthrown, and Savonarola taught the people to set up a democratic form of government. The revival brought tremendous moral change. The people stopped reading vile and worldly books. Merchants made restitution to the people for the…

Giving Up God—Not Just a Spiritual Stunt

By Becky Garrison

…imself an unexpected media darling. Becky Garrison caught up with Bell via phone to talk about his motivations, the reactions of his friends and family, and what he hopes to discover. BG: What’s your reaction to this surge of media coverage? RB: When I started this, I thought my blog would only be read by a few people. It’s been surreal. I have no clue how to make anything go viral, so this is totally unexpected. But eventually, I think this atten…

Safety Not Guaranteed

By Jeanne Carstensen

…ing up. The narrow stairway of our fifth story walk-up is pitch black. Our phones have no signal, which means no AP alerts, no Facebook, no Twitter—and no way to contact friends and family. Except for the radio, we’re cut off. And so is everyone else in the mass of humanity that lives and works below 39th Street. In the afternoon, after the worst of Sandy has departed for the north, I walk across Avenue B again into the Red zone. Some time during…