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For those of you who know me, I don’t listen to pop music, hip hop/R&B, or anything really mainstream for that matter; I prefer classical music and classic rock, with some very obscure sub-genres thrown in there and whatnot. Therefore, I’m not sure what’s more surprising: me discussing Lady Gaga, or the fact that she…
By now, I’m sure you’ve heard of the Cordoba House, the name of the proposed mosque and community center near Ground Zero. What began as a simple local zoning matter became the latest flash point in our post-9/11 society almost overnight. What’s striking to me isn’t the fact that some religious organization wants to build…
Mother's Nightclub officially accepted the terms of the settlement offered by the students of Washington University in St. Louis. Will it actually work?
Tonight there was a town hall forum on what the next steps in the response to the discrimination against six Washington University in St. Louis students at a Chicago bar. In this post, I boil down the two-hour meeting to the bare essentials, and provide commentary of course.
Last week, six African-American students were barred from entering a nightclub on their Senior Class trip, after 200 of their friends were admitted. How could the club justify its actions, and was it racism, or something else?
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