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They leave us with a call to action, and a reminder that everyone is welcome in the fight against injustice: "I ask for the movement to continue… and if a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door…” A few years ago, I always had this thing happening to me, especially at family gatherings like teas with aunts and uncles or something like this.
Now, nothing against women's programs, networks, mentoring, trainings.
This grim dilemma forces Dana to confront the ongoing trauma of slavery and sexual violence against Black women.
Today, doctors, therapists and the nearly 10-billion- dollar-a-year self-help industry are all advocating against the idea of perfection under this guise that somehow not trying to be perfect will save your self-esteem and protect your ego.
They're actually bringing their computers so they can play games against each other.
His research concluded that people would be satisfied with the judge's rulings, even when the judge ruled against them, if they perceived that they were treated fairly and with dignity and respect.
It's a huge point of discussion in trans communities about which bathroom to start using and when, so we don't attract attention that could lead to violence against us.
It happened to be down at a place called Stennis Space Center right on the Gulf Coast, so we lived in a little town called Waveland, Mississippi, nice modest house, and as you can see, it's up against a storm surge.
And so, local people have started growing their own glaciers as insurance against this uncertainty.
But against the complexities that they face, they seem to be at their limits.
For in the months leading up to my selection, like many young people, I'd been active in the anti-Vietnam War movement, and had written an article against Lyndon Johnson, which unfortunately came out in The New Republic two days after the dance in the White House.
He would stand with his back against a fire and entertain the crowd for hours with his winding tales.
And I must say, even now, when I sit with my sons with our season tickets, I can sometimes close my eyes against the sun and imagine myself, a young girl once more, in the presence of my father, watching the players of my youth on the grassy fields below: Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Pee Wee Reese, and Duke Snider.
If you want to get serious about Africa becoming a knowledge continent, this is something that we need to address very seriously, we need to start documenting, we need to start codifying this knowledge, and unfortunately, we are racing against time because tradition in Africa is that the transmission has always been oral.
In the AlphaGo case, we had exactly this thing: the computer would play the game against itself and then learn new rules.
Their mission was to unite for defense against the world's bitter persecution.
But despite these sophisticated systems, every centimeter is a fight against gravity.
But when pitted against the similar strengths of their invasive new neighbors, wolves found themselves at a crossroads.
I'm not against glamour.
Unfortunately, it didn't feel much like a celebration when, growing up, my mother and I would wander past Queens into New York City streets, and my mother with her hijab and long flowy dresses would tighten her hand around my small fingers as she stood up against weathered comments like, "Go back to where you came from," "Learn English," "Stupid immigrant."
Hate crimes against Muslims in the US increased by 1,600 percent post-9/11, and one in every four women in the US will suffer some form of gender violence.
So at whatever point in history, a one-year-old and a 20-year-old are said to share the same value system, to want the same things at work, to have the same stereotypes working for and against them.
I talked to an organization who recently decided against putting a ball pit in the break room because that's how you retain millennials.
And that makes this data actionable and helps you understand what you're breathing by telling you where and when you've been exposed to poor air quality, and that way you can make informed decisions to take action against pollution.
Viscosity works against disruption, making the flow laminar instead.
And in a two-dimensional world, we do know about the third dimension but we don’t use it because to go up requires an awful lot of energy against gravity.
We're actually speaking about a tenth of a millionth of a liter of compound, but we can dilute that compound several thousand times in its own volume of water and then test it against a whole range of nasty stuff, like cancer cells or bacteria.
So you see, the reality is that we are at war against an invisible enemy that adapts and evolves a lot quicker than we do.
she speaks a sanchocho of spanish and english, pushing up and against one another, in rapid fire there is no telling my mama to be "quiet," my mama don't know "quiet."
So it’s a joke against myself.
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