Posted on June 16, 2006 by thestateofblog
Is feminism harmful to African-Americans? I mean really? When I (rich) think of feminism I usually think of Womanism, a term defined by Alice Walker to mean (in short) feminism for black women. Where feminism focused on moving white women out of domesticity into the work place, Walker realized that women of colour had [...]
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Posted on June 16, 2006 by thestateofblog
New Jersey’s Attorney General, Zulima V. Farber (pictured above), subpoened five telephone companies to see if they violated state consumer protection laws by providing records to the NSA. On Thursday, however, the federal government sued to block the subpoenas arguing that compliance with them would violate national security. This is the first time [...]
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Posted on June 16, 2006 by thestateofblog
“Rappers love it, quaff it, idolise it. But the makers of Cristal champagne have revealed they are at best ambivalent about the patronage of the hip-hop fraternity.”“Asked by the Economist about whether associations with rap stars could affect the marque, new managing director Frederic Rouzaud said: “That’s a good question, but what can we do? [...]
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