What racial discrimination does to young people’s wellbeing: fizkes/Shutterstock Discrimination against minority groups can be difficult to prove. Perpetrators are typically motivated to deny their prejudices, and are not always aware of their biases. This makes it possible to suggest – as happened recently in the Dutch national parliament – that racism is virtually nonexistent, …
Check out this South African City image: People’s Choice Photo Competition 2012 Image by Monash University New York City (USA) – depicts Manhattan from the top of the Rockefeller Building and my aspirations for the future to take my globally recognised Monash degree and work overseas Image automatically curated and published by www.free-mail.co.za – CLICK …
Social media helps reveal people’s racist views – so why don’t tech firms do more to stop hate speech?: GoodStudio/Shutterstock This article contains examples of racist, Islamophobic and threatening language Twitter has finally permanently removed right-wing commentator Katie Hopkins from its platform for violating its “hateful conduct” policy. Many would ask why it took so …
Check out this South African City image: People’s Choice Photo Competition 2012 Image by Monash University Time Square, New York City (USA) – Depicts a busy Time Square, symbolising the many people I have come across throughout my degree and beyond, from different places all around the world. Image automatically curated and published by www.free-mail.co.za …
Young Musicians Concert | Why Mosquitos Buzz in People’s Ears – a Music interest event taking place on 2020-03-15 15:30:00 in United States Join PCM faculty member and Grammy-award winning percussionist T. J. Troy and YM Musical Theater Camp teacher Lindsay Dodoras for a rhythm-filled adaption of Verna Aardema’s Caldecott Award winning book, Why Mosquitos …
What the Village’s People’s leather-clad singer can teach heterosexual men: The Village People's Glenn Hughes (second from left) epitomised the leatherman look. Mario Casciano “Leathermen” are gay men who wear leather clothes that draw inspiration from masculine institutions like the military, the police, and motorcycle gangs. They also take great pride in their muscular bodies, …
This hidden number in the 8 of Diamonds is blowing people’s minds: Grab a deck of cards and pull out the eight of diamonds, you're about to have your mind blown. Look closely, but don't focus on the diamonds. : Weird News Mariners Moose Tracks, 11/19/18: Mike Zunino, Nathan Eovaldi, and Weird Sports Stories: Another …
Smart transport can change people’s lives – but austerity is suppressing new transit tech: Transport in the palm of your hand. Shutterstock. Even 15 years ago, catching public transport was a very different experience than it is today. You’d have been anxiously peering down your local road, waiting for a bus that never seemed to …
Pompeii should teach us to celebrate people’s lives, not mock their death: When current excavations at Pompeii unearthed the remains of a seemingly decapitated skeleton, an image was released by archaeologists working in Regio V. Thought to be of a man crushed by an enormous door jamb while attempting to flee the deadly Vesuvian eruption …
Europeans deserve a food policy that focuses on the environment and people’s health: Per Bengtsson / shutterstock The European Union’s common agricultural policy is a sprawling programme of farming subsidies that covers everything from income support for farmers to supporting the promotion of products such as wine. No wonder then that the European Commission, the …
South Africa in the news: South Africa is running out of other people’s money: South Africa should get ready to lose at least R100 billion in foreign investment, and see the rand head to R15 to the dollar on the back of what has been described as a worrying mid-term budget policy statement from finance …
‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ wins TIFF People’s Choice Award: “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” has won the People's Choice prize at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday. The devastating dark comedy about revenge and redemption in small-town America beat out several other buzzworthy titles for the top honour. : Weird News Iowa Hawkeyes …
Ohio city replaces Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day updated: A northern Ohio city will celebrate the second Monday in October as Indigenous People's Day instead of the federally recognized Columbus Day holiday. The city council voted unanimously on Monday after hearing public comments about whether to celebrate indigenous people rather than explorer Christopher Columbus' …
Investigating Donald Trump’s weird habit of yanking people’s hands in photo ops: U.S. President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minter, while posing for photographs before a joint news conference in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, Feb. 10, 2017. Japan and the U.S. …
Science needs to start speaking to people’s everyday lives in Africa: When scientists engage local communities in dialogue about their research, both sides benefit. Supplied There have been wide-ranging reactions from the scientific community after a South African university student called for “Western” science to be eradicated. The young woman argued that science “is a …
Africa must do more to harness young people’s entrepreneurial drive: Young Kenyan entrepreneurs hard at work. Such enterprise must be encouraged. Thomas Mukoya/Reuters As the world marks International Youth Day on August 12, it’s important to consider the role that African youth can play in driving sustainable development. There’s no doubt that – given the …
A Tannie Evita video production – Evita’s Free Speech Ep24 – 28 Feb 2016: Evita’s People’s Party & Voter Registration.: Leading up to the 2016 South African Municipal Elections and the 20th year celebration of her theatre in Darling, Evita se Perron, Tannie Evita has committed herself to broadcasting a Sunday recap of the week’s …
The Rock arrives to do a backstage interview with Lilian Garcia and isn’t impressed with her business-like attitude and so leads her into ruminations on pie and her love of strudel. Once she gets a taste for the People’s Strudel, however, Rock chides her for lack of professionalism before going on to deliver a rocking …