While people argue about what is real and fake news the widening gulf of inequality in the real world only continues...
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Stop Punishing Black Children Just Because They’re Black
Schools should be held to higher standards than students. If schools irresponsibly impose discipline practices, then...
The states that spend more money on prisoners than college students
It's a terrible waste of taxpayer money. Since 1990, state and local spending on prisons and jails has risen more than...
World of Nations Festival at Metropolitan Park | jacksonville.com
The festival kicked off Saturday with the city hosting a naturalization ceremony where 50 people became U.S. citizens. Warm weather and clear days...
Why does everyone question evolution but not gravity? – Quora
Because gravity doesn't fundamentally conflict with people's religious ideas in the way that evolution does. If it did, they would try to rewrite...
How I Found My Magic In The Quiet Spaces. | Rebelle Society
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, but I chose neither one. Instead, I set sail in my little boat to watch a sunset from a different view that...
Cornel West’s Rise and Fall
NOR HELL A FURY LIKE A WOMAN SCORNED” is the best-known line from William Congreve’s The Mourning Bride. But I’m concerned with the phrase preceding...
All This Fucking Time and I Still Feel Grief. | Rebelle Society
The hallmark of a human life is loss, it seems. And the body is a vessel for grief. This is not an if, but when. When is loss gonna hit? And then it...
5 Lies You Were Told About Grief
It isn’t true that you have to get over it. It isn’t even true that you have to want to. No one else can understand what you have lost. No one else...
Ferguson from Afar: How the World Sees the Protests
As the turmoil in Ferguson, Missouri, unfolds, questions about the United States’ commitment to human rights are once more headlining news coverage...
The Case for Reparations
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until...
Study: Raising Expectations Actually Raises Students’ Grades
How do expectations, particularly teacher expectations, affect students in the U.S.? Are standards high enough? Does Common Core, which has been...