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Saggy pants are butt-ugly but legal: judge Dareh Gregorian, New York Post, July 29, 2010 You have the right to look ridiculous. A Bronx judge has thrown out a summons issued against a Bronx man for wearing saggy pants, finding that “the Constitution still leaves some opportunity for people to be foolish if they so […]

Scuffle at Meeting over NC School Resegregation Associated Press, July 21, 2010 Protesters and police scuffled Tuesday at a school board meeting in North Carolina over claims that a new busing system would resegregate schools, roiling racial tensions reminiscent of the 1960s. Nineteen people were arrested, including the head of state NAACP chapter who was […]

As we cheer this summer for the impressive athletes competing in the World Cup in South Africa, let’s all try to keep in mind the country’s history and also the (unseen) realities of its present. Apartheid was a legalized, oppressive system of segregation in South Africa that lasted until just before Nelson Mandela became the […]

I’ll be honest; I was not concerned with the immorality of Arizona’s SB 1070 before protests began popping up nationally and what was a state issue took a national audience.  Groups of concerned citizens have started to call for boycotts of Major League Baseball’s Arizona Diamondbacks. Protesters have followed the Diamondbacks to Colorado and even Chicago. […]

Amnesty International is a non-governmental international organization that often campaigns against human rights abuse and calls for international compliance to standards of ethics. Lethal injection is the standard method of execution in the United States. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8yu6DOaoN0 Amnesty has issued a report stating that the cocktail of drugs used in lethal injections can cause excruciating pain […]