- Black Teacher Calls Student White Boy
- The teacher provided a written statement to investigators in which he admitted addressing the children in terms of black and white but denied that his comments were racial in nature.
The child singled out and embarrassed because of his color would probably beg to differ.
- Exclusive: Painting Matters – Women’s Media Center blog
- Costume painting is a highly specialized art practiced by only a few people in a few places. It was virtually invented back in the 1970s by two legendary women of the theater. Costume designer Willa Kim needed something extra to realize her designs for the Joffrey Ballet
- Legislature Approves Amazon Deal – Pulse of the Bay – The Bay Citizen
- Under the agreement, Amazon would drop its attempt to get a referendum on the ballot to repeal California’s online sales tax, passed in June, and legislators and retailers would jointly petition Congress to establish a national policy on Internet sales taxation. Amazon would also begin gathering sales taxes next year.
- Obama Getting Close To One Million Deportations | Mother Jones
- The GOP has been accusing the administration for months of instituting “de-facto amnesty” even as deportation numbers skyrocketed, while liberals and the Spanish-language press have been attacking the administration for breaking its promises.
Last month the administration finally indicated it would be deferring the deportation of undocumented immigrants who pose no threat to public safety, but in the absence of progress on immigration reform, that may not be enough to fix the president’s plummeting poll numbers among Hispanic voters.
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