The U.S. election period has been a trying time for citizens and non-citizens, residents and non-residents alike. Televisions, newsfeeds, and timelines have been full of politically divisive rhetoric, vitriol, and fear-mongering.
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On August 30, 2016, R&B star Chris Brown and the LAPD engaged in a 14-hour standoff at the singer’s home.
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The internet has long been an unsafe place for women. Online harassment is more than just receiving malicious messages, rumors, and threats.
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WHEN BEYONCÉ released the video for “Formation,” I wasn’t rushing to download it or watch it — mainly because anything that’s going down as “viral”…
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This week? Raven-Symoné and Bristol Palin.
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SOUTH CAROLINA — my homestate — doesn’t make the news often. When it does, it’s usually for something embarrassing, like having the highest incidence of…
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If you’ve ever dreamed of becoming a better person while you slept, those dreams might be closer to reality than you think. That is, if…
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FULL DISCLOSURE: I’m not really the “Greek life” type. Sure, I like a nice themed party where I can drink my weight in jungle juice…
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I SET OUT to write a piece about Annie. A cheerful review of the breezy Will-Gluck-directed, fun-for-the- whole- family holiday release. The critics are a little…
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IT WAS early March, which doesn’t mean much to LA. When most sane cities are welcoming spring’s first fragile blossoms as they struggle through the…
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Note: A previous version of this post claimed that Chi Omega is a sorority at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, when it is in…
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WHEN I look at my daughter, my smiling, bubbling, loving, giving, happy child who just turned one, I do not see a racist; how could…
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