Pearl River The Queen is dead. Long live the King. I think that’s the way it goes. Elizabeth II, passed away at 96 after a long 70 year run in the castle. On this side of the pond, what do we make of it? A curiosity from another …
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Burkini’s Aren’t the Half of It
Pearl River As soon as I was contacted about talking to Emory Professor Falguni Sheth on Wade’s World about her book, Unruly Women: Race, Neocolonialism, and the Hijab, I was in. The Alliance Citoyenne, ACORN’s affiliate in France, had been fighting all levels of government there to overturn restricts on women with hijab being …
Individual Political Donations Matter
New Orleans Many of us have become cynical about the big money in US election campaigns and all of the schemes used by the superrich, corporations, and special interests to flood the zone with cash. There’s dark money. There’s weird foundation scams like the recent $1.6 billion stock sale donation for the Republicans. …