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Can we get more women on the mic? Talking gender in hip-hop

Prabal Gurung Spring 2014

Fashion Week featuring few models of color

Image: Activists Rally To Support Wal-Mart Workers For Better Jobs And Wages

Are wages or union membership driving Walmart protests?

Fracking NY State - Shanta Covington - 08/30/2013

Natural-gas driller to appeal New York town’s fracking ban

March on Washington, August 28, 1963

How media galvanized a March on Washington

An Israeli security guard peers at a hole knocked through part of a wall connected to Israel's controversial separation barrier by Palestinian youth in the Abu Dis neighborhood, bordering Jerusalem on July 9, 2013. (Photo by Abbas Momani/AFP/Getty)

Can John Kerry deliver the ‘peace baby’ in the Middle East?

A poll worker hands a sticker to a voter at a polling place in Charlotte, North Carolina October 27, 2012. (Photo by Chris Keane/Reuters)

The difference between ‘impact’ and ‘intent’ on your right to vote

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Complexity of black women’s lives lacking in mainstream media

Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP

Complexity of black women’s lives lacking in mainstream media

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Gravely ill Angola 3 inmate hoping for compassionate release