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Final Thoughts on Wild Seed [Octavia Butler Book Club]

by • August 5th, 2011

Wild Seed Retro Cover

Next week, we will move on to the second book in the Patternist series, Mind of My Mind. But first, let’s close out Wild Seed. I found myself coming back to two main ideas after reading. (Spoilers ahead – but you should be keeping up with the reading.) The first was a question for myself: […]

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Wild Seed [Octavia Butler Book Club]

by • July 7th, 2011

Wild Seed cover

Doro discovered the woman by accident when he went to see what was left of one of his seed villages. The village was a comfortable mud-walled palace surrounded by grasslands and scattered trees. But Doro realized before he reached it that it’s people were gone. Slavers had been to it before him. With their guns […]

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America, the Scapegoat [Youth Correspondent Tryout]

by • June 29th, 2011

by Guest Contributor Sonita Moss

I’m back, America.

I have been home, on U.S. soil, for the past 3 weeks, and it has given me some time to reflect on being a black woman in U.S. vs. being a black American woman in France. Living in France for the second time was rather colder than the first but a bit…

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New Anti-Abortion Campaigns Emerge In Two More Cities

by • June 21st, 2011

By Arturo R. García

After being seen in Chicago, and Los Angeles, the anti-abortion push targeting women of color has spread to Atlanta and Oakland.

The latest campaign, headed by The Radiance Foundation has “no political reason at all,” according to chief creative officer Ryan Bomberger. However, the new billboards – which say “The 13th Amendment freed…

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