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The participants support various steps to reshape incarceration practices to better prepare inmates to be able to find and hold productive employment.
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Another Policeman Acquitted: Where Is Our David?
Nowadays it is abundantly clear that policemen in the United States can kill black people with impunity.
Read More »Wonder Women – Ariana Grande, Gal Gadot, and Patty Jenkins – Show Us the Way
These three Wonder Women set hearts a flutter this weekend, but also made a difference in tangible ways.
Read More »Interview: ‘I Am Evidence’ Directors Trish Adlesic and Geeta Gandbhir – Part I
Blogcritics interivew 'I Am Evidence' Directors Trish Adlesic and Geeta Gandbhir
Read More »SXSW Music Festival 2017: Monday, March 13 (Austin, TX)
SuperGlu and Magic Island helped kickstart the first day of SXSW Music Festival 2017 in Austin, Texas.
Read More »New York Botanical Garden Poet Laureate Billy Collins and Poet Eamon Grennan Read and Chat Poetry
For twenty-five years the Poetry Society of America has been an active presence and voice in New York City. They have sponsored “Poetry in Motion” posting poems and having poets read their poems on NYC subways. They have also worked in concert with the New York Botanical Garden creating placards …
Read More »The Absurdity of Christmas Decorations in October
Why is the mall decorated for Christmas in October?
Read More »Halloween Symbols – The Black Cat
Along with the witch in flight and grinning and jack-o-lantern, the black cat in full arched-back fright mode is among THE iconic symbols of Halloween. Even to this day, who doesn’t feel a little charge when a black cat streaks across one’s path, especially on Halloween? Cats have been variously worshiped or reviled throughout human history, but they have almost always been seen as magical and otherworldly.
Read More »Excitement Building for Inaugural World’s Largest Ghost Hunt and National Ghost Hunting Day on October 1
Haunted Journeys — in conjunction with partners The Scarefest, Destination America, America’s Most Haunted, Paranormal Database, our regional ambassadors and network of participating ghost hunting teams — is proud to announce that National Ghost Hunting Day is now officially registered with the National Calendar Day Registry, to be celebrated on the first Saturday of every October. This celebration of the techniques and culture of ghost hunting will initiate the Halloween season annually in spectacular fashion! On October 1, 2016, National Ghost Hunting Day will be celebrated for the first time with the World’s Largest Ghost Hunt serving as the inaugural mega event.
Read More »School and Drug Usage – What Can Be Done?
For college students, returning to school can have a dark side as alcohol consumption and drug abuse continue to adversely affect many students’ school experience.
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