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#MLKDream50: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 50 Year Anniversary Commemoration

This upcoming week is the 50th Anniversary of the historical walk on Washington that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led.  In 1963 this was a walk for racial and economical equality in this country....

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Why a Metro Stop meant the most at the March on Washington

I arrived shortly after 9AM and the Smithsonian Metro Stop in Washington D.C was packed to the brim with people from all different backgrounds trying to get to the National Mall.  There were children,...

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How Are You Advancing the Dream?

“Because they marched, America became more free,” said President Barack Obama on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday August 28th to a large multi-raced crowd recognizing the 50th Anniversary...

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Syria 3D: Sidewalk inspiration for peace talks

By Matt Herrick  (Oxfam, September 27th, 2013)  Bleary-eyed and clutching paper coffee cups, photographers from the world’s largest media outlets skipped out on the drone sessions of the United Nations...

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Giving Rural Residents a Voice in Montes de Maria, Colombia

The award-winning radio program, Voices and Sounds of Montes de Maria, is recognized as the only program in Colombia produced and broadcast by local residents themselves. Set up through the...

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What the Internet Thinks of Women

By Meg VanDeusen We are fortunate enough to live in an era that focuses on the language of equality. Huge strides are being made around the world to overcome a spectrum of intersecting oppressions. All...

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No more excuses: Let’s start protecting women in emergencies

By Marcy Hersh, Refugees International  There is always a convenient excuse. In Haiti, we don’t have the time. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, we don’t have the funding. In the Syrian refugee...

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The Beautiful Game

THE BEAUTIFUL GAME is by an Award Winning Team: Directed and Produced BY Danny Turken, Executive Producers Sam Pollard and W. Wilder Knight II, Line Producer Nicole London and Outreach Producer Dollena...

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“Create” nothing: A new social good mantra

Aid workers and development practitioners, how many times have you seen a paragraph like this in a proposal? “Community Mobilization: To ensure communities are… community management committees (CMCs)...

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World AIDS Day 2013 – A statement by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius

When the World Health Organization established the first World AIDS Day on December 1, 1988, treatment options for people living with HIV were practically nonexistent, and AIDS was almost invariably...

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Groups Want Human Rights Guarantees from Future Olympic Hosts

SOCHI, Russia — Human rights and gay rights organizations, outraged by anti-gay laws in the Olympic host country of Russia, want the International Olympic Committee to demand human rights guarantees...

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#BringBackOurGirls Nigerian Militant group abducts 234 girls

By Eliza Griswold, Slate Magazine Monday marks two weeks since the Nigerian militant group Boko Haram has been holding up to 191 teenage girls hostage with total impunity in the Sambisa Forest. The...

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Destiny’s Bridge- A Home for the Homeless

Tent City. What comes to mind when you first read this? It’s not a play on words where it’s assumed as a “city for campers.” In fact, it’s a homeless community in the woods of Lakewood, New Jersey. But...

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Dr. Steve Perry Evokes Action to Young Black Men

Innovative educator and author, Dr. Steve Perry, spoke about how healing men heals the world to a full house at Hampton University. Perry is author of, “Push Has Come to Shove: Getting Our Kids the...

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Racial Profiling: A Color Blind Future?

At a young age, most of us were taught not to judge a book by its cover, yet we will walk down the street and make preconceived notions about a person before we get to learn who they are or what they...

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Chapel Hill Shootings: Anti-Muslim Prejudice Persists

Stigmatization, discrimination, and violence towards the American Muslim community persist in 2015. On February 10, three Muslim students were killed by gunshot wounds to the head in Chapel Hill, North...

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