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“Do I look suspicious?”

Originally posted in Feministing

By Chloe | Published: March 28, 2012

TweetStudents at the historically Black college Howard University have put together this beautiful little video about racial profiling and the assumption that any man of colour in a hoodie is suspicious. In light of the comments about how Trayvon Martin’s clothing was as much to blame for his death as the man who killed him, [...]

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New report: sexual assault victims failed, even at VA hospitals

Originally posted in Feministing

By Courtney | Published: June 14, 2011

Tweet As the Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN) reported last week on its new blog, a scathing new report was just published by the Government Accountability Office detailing how the Department of Veterans Affairs is failing at both preventing and tracking sexual assaults at VA facilities across the country. For example, they report that “nearly [...]