Rebekah Kuschmider
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This is no small thing. The institutional barriers to achievement faced by Black women are staggering: African American women earn only 64% of what white men earn, and they earn only 91% of what Black men earn. African American women held 8.58% of the bachelor’s degrees held by women in 2012, though they constituted 12.7% of the female population. The poverty rate for African American women is 28.6%. In comparison, the poverty rate of white, non-Hispanic women is 10.8%.
Read...Is Hillary Clinton going to jail for having email? The world — and last night’s debate moderators — want to know!
The short answer is: probably not.
Unless one of her emails contains a confession for actually killing Vince Foster. Which seems unlikely, since Hillary has a law degree from Yale and I think the first thing they teach you there is, “Don’t write incriminating shit down.”
Read...It doesn’t even get to the biggest question: when will airlines start offering complimentary cocktails at all price points?
Read...We interrupt our regularly scheduled #FurballFriday to bring you news that retired General Mike Flynn, the disgraced former National Security Advis
Read...The Iowa state House of Representatives advanced a bill yesterday that would make it lawful for children to use hand guns, with the direct supervision of parents.
Read...While women comprise half of the HIV-positive population in the United States, they are less than 20% of the subject in anti-retroviral drug studies.
Read...Put on your robes, grab your spell books, and get down to the Great Hall! It’s breakfast time at Hogwarts!
Read...Heads UP, Rav readers! JC Penney is launching a new boutique for plus-size clothing and they are not messing around!
Read...We all know that menstrual periods are perfectly natural, and it’s the cycle of nature, and isn’t the reproductive system amazing, and blah blah bl
Read...Apparently, there is a type of wasp that deposits its larvae inside oak trees, where they grow inside the wood, nourished on oak bark and wasp poop. You can collect these wasp incubators — called oak galls — and do stuff with them. The Etsy seller says they’re good for all kinds of “traditional” medicinal uses like tightening the vagina and uterus after childbirth. THIS IS A BAD IDEA!
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