For the past half-century, depictions of the Black Panther Party in mainstream media have largely glossed over their ideas or their community activism. “They’ve been reduced to leather peacoats and shotguns,” Shaka King, the director of the new Black Panther-focused film Judas and the Black Messiah says. They’ve been called terrorists, fringe separatists, “wild beasts” and “the civil rights movement’s evil twin.” While the words of other Civil Rights activists like Martin Luther King, Jr.
There’s an easy way to figure out which military service has the toughest basic training — all you have to do is count how many recruits break their legs. Using that standard, there’s no competition: the U.S. Marine Corps crushes its recruits’ lower-leg bones far more often than the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard or Navy.
The data are contained in a new military report that traces stress fractures from 2004 to 2010 for both recruits and troops already in the force.
After studying poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the mid-1970s, Sandra Cisneros moved back home to Chicago and taught former dropouts at the Latino Youth High School. All of these influences—the city, the students, the poetic approach to language—are palpable in The House on Mango Street, the series of semi-autobiographical vignettes that coalesced to form the Mexican American author’s first novel. A modern classic that has survived several misguided banning campaigns to become a staple of English syllabi, The House on Mango Street filters the life of a working-class Latinx neighborhood through the perspective of 12-year-old Esperanza Cordero, a bright girl who’s quickly absorbing tough lessons about racism, inequality and growing up female.
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Football is having a tougher time scoring a touchdown with advertisers.
Pigskin perennials like NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” and ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” have long commanded some of TV’s highest ad prices, and continue to do so today.