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Film Review: ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’
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Tagged entertainment, film, Lee Daniels, Lee Daniels' The Butler, movie, review
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Lee Daniels’ The Butler (Reminder #4)
Please mark your calendars! The day is almost upon us. Lee Daniels’ (Precious) “The Butler” opens in theaters on August 16, 2013. It is the story of Cecil Gaines who as the head butler at the White House served eight … Continue reading
Posted in Soul Brother Presents, Soul Brother's Trailers
Tagged Alan Rickman, Cuba Gooding Jr., David Oyelowo, entertainment, film, Forest Whitaker, James Marsden, Jane Fonda, Lee Daniels, Lenny Kravitz, Liev Schreiber, Mariah Carey, Melissa Leo, Minka Kelly, movie, Oprah Winfrey, Robin Williams, Terrence Howard, Vanessa Redgrave
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Court ruling could doom living-wage law
By Andrew J. Hawkins A judge’s decision to strike down the city’s prevailing-wage law provides the Bloomberg administration an opening to get rid of another City Council statute it doesn’t like: the 2012 living-wage law. The administration’s lawyers believe that … Continue reading
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Tagged City council, income, labor, Living wage, Michael Bloomberg, middle class, money, New York City, politics, Prevailing wage, unions, Wage
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Being Unemployed For Over Nine Months Is The Same As Losing Four Years Of Experience
By Bryce Covert There is reason to believe that the long-term unemployed face discrimination when they try to get a job. Now some Swedish economists have tried to quantify exactly what that penalty looks like. They found that for someone … Continue reading
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Tagged Academic degree, job search, Nine Months, resume, unemployment, Work experience
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Young, black and shot in the head
By Kate Selker A few months before he was shot in the head, Marshall Coulter passed me in the hallway. “Ms. Selker! Remember how otters hold hands when they sleep?” Of course I did. I was the one who had … Continue reading
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Tagged crime, education, Marshall Coulter, New Orleans, race, Trayvon Martin
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Nelson Mandela’s health improving by the day, his daughter says
By David Dolan Former South African President Nelson Mandela’s health is improving daily and he is now able to sit up for minutes at a time, his youngest daughter told state broadcaster SABC. The 95-year-old has been in a Pretoria … Continue reading
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Oprah faced not just fashion retail racism, but size bias too
By Heidi Moore Oprah Winfrey is a successful billionaire with an empire worth $3bn, a woman whose public reputation has been built on self-empowerment. She has been frank about the stresses in her life – racism and sexism figure often … Continue reading →