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New Coldplay song to be featured in ‘Catching Fire’
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Tagged Chris Martin, Coldplay, entertainment, film, movie, soundtrack, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
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Why Isn’t NYC Promoting Morning-After HIV Meds?
By Tim Murphy Last Wednesday, in scorching midday heat, about twenty members of the longtime HIV/AIDS activist group ACT UP held a protest in front of Mt. Sinai Medical Center’s entrance at Madison Avenue and 100th St., their shirts soaked … Continue reading
The Dream Defenders Introduce ‘Trayvon’s Law’; Talib Kweli Weighs In
By Brentin Mock For four weeks now, the youth justice alliance called the Dream Defenders in Florida have peacefully held the state capitol building captive, pushing for reforms to laws that criminalize youth of color. Today, they unveiled “Trayvon’s Law,” … Continue reading
George Zimmerman and Infamy: What Can He Do Now?
By Danielle C. Belton Last week George Zimmerman — found innocent of murder, but still the killer of teen Trayvon Martin — was pulled over by a police officer in Forney, Texas, east of Dallas. Nothing happened. In fact, the only … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Weiner, Dallas, Florida, George Zimmerman, infamy, race, Texas
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Fronczak missing Chicago boy case: FBI reopens probe
It comes after DNA tests showed that the child returned to the missing baby’s parents is not their son. Paul Fronczak, 49, was raised by Chester and Dora Fronczak after detectives found him abandoned in New Jersey in 1965. But he … Continue reading
NYPD Agrees To Purge Names Of Those Stopped And Frisked
By Nicole Flatow The New York Police Department will erase hundreds of thousands of names and addresses it has collected of those stopped and frisked, in a settlement announced Wednesday. Some NYPD data on stop-and-frisks is useful for tracking the breadth of … Continue reading
How One State Succeeded in Restricting Payday Loans
In 2009, consumer advocates in Washington State decided to try a new approach to regulating payday loans. Like reformers in other states, they’d tried to get the legislature to ban high-cost loans outright — but had hit a brick wall. … Continue reading
‘A Dream Foreclosed’: How Financial Predators Created a Crisis That Led to 10 Million Americans Being Evicted
By Amy Goodman and Laura Gottesdiener As President Obama heads to Phoenix today to tout the “housing recovery,” journalist Laura Gottesdiener examines the devastating legacy of the foreclosure crisis and how much of the so-called recovery is a result of … Continue reading
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