Two veteran runway models work to bring safe labor practices to the glamour industry.
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Defining the Millennial Generation
Heather McGhee, Washington director of Demos, points out the unique challenges of her group of peers on Moyers and Company. Heather McGhee on the Millennial Generation from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.
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Arizona Students Lead the Fight to Save Ethnic Studies
The film Precious Knowledge: A Revolutionary Education follows Arizona students’ fight to keep their ethnic studies program. Precious Knowledge Trailer from Ari Palos on Vimeo.
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Couture’s Chinese Culture Shock
Chinese luxury consumers are becoming an important market but fashion’s racial stereotypes persist.
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Missing the Arab Awakening
Fears of radical Islam and a depleted budget may keep the U.S. from shepherding a Middle Eastern transition to democracy.
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Occupying Grand Central Station
OWS rings in the new year with a fight against NDAA.
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Showdown at the Docks
Occupy Wall Street protesters celebrated the movement’s three-month anniversary by taking the fight to major ports.
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Friday Miscellany
A conservative mayor unintentionally outs himself, obesity drops among NYC schoolchildren, and every U.S. writer says goodbye to Christopher Hitchens.
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Class Struggle
As levels of student debt continue to rise, regulators have an opportunity to reform higher education.
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From K Street to Main Street
This week featured a vision of two different paths Occupy Wall Street could take after being evicted from public parks across the country. In Washington, D.C., activists from labor, Occupy, and elsewhere held a “99% in DC” event that began with a day of visits to congressional offices to demand jobs legislation. Occupiers then followed […]
