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In April every year, that pesky gender wage gap jumps to front-page news again as we mark Equal Pay Day. The date signifies the day when American women, on average, have finally earned as much as the average white American man did the past year. Last week is an equally important and depressing milestone: Black Women’s Equal Pay Day.

The videotaped assault and sexual harassment of 14 year-old Dajerria Becton by a rampaging white police officer after a pool party in McKinney, Texas makes it clear that it continues to be open season on black women and girls.

De Beauvoir & Sartre in Cuba; Black women & evictions; Pepper spray drones; Alt rabbi; Revered hippy; Soccer understood

Bigotry and ignorance join forces to deny the existence of black nuns in Europe. No surprise that it's bad history.