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Virginia senators Timothy M. Kaine and Mark R. Warner have joined those voicing unease after the bloody arrest of a University of Virginia student early Wednesday morning. Kaine tweeted late Wednesday that he was “troubled” by reports of the force used by Alcohol and Beverage Control agents when arresting Martese Johnson, a 20-year-old student who…
Martese Johnson is held down by an officer on Wednesday in Charlottesville, Virginia. Bryan Beaubrun / AP About 1,000 students and community members gathered at the University of Virginia campus Wednesday night to demand justice for a third-year student who was injured during an arrest hours earlier, and appeared in a photo and video with…
I never took an AP course in high school. I’m pretty sure it was because I never qualified for it (I went straight B-minuses throughout my high school career), but it was also because I went to school back when taking AP courses wasn’t the dire necessity that it is for today’s students. According tothis…
Starbucks Wants To Talk To You About Race. Coffee Beans drying in an Ethiopian village But Does It Want to Talk To You About Racism? According to Fortune magazine, Starbucks will “encourage baristas to discuss race relations with customers”. Starbucks’ media page says that a series of “racially charged tragedies” sparked the initiative “Race Together”….
When PlayStation Europe posted the PlayStation Plus free games for March 2015 earlier this week, their URL included Dishonored, despite the game not being included. Since the PS+ announcement for this month was delayed by a few days, people speculated that Dishonored was supposed to be a freebie, but was switched at the last minute….
Story highlights David Wheeler: Silicon Valley doesn’t create jobs; it’s wiping out middle-class jobs Young college graduates are struggling with lack of jobs, yet many still idolize Silicon Valley Silicon Valley is tossing millennials aside like yesterday’s laptop. The commonly held belief is that with hard work and a good education, a young person in…
Photo Users of Facebook’s Messenger app will be able to link their debit cards to the service and use it to message money to each other. SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook‘s instant messaging service isn’t just for sending smiley faces and photos anymore. Now you can use it to send money instantly to your friends. Facebook,…
Chris Martino/Flickr Civil liberties advocates are adding another strike to the Obama administration’s record on transparency: on Monday, the White House announced that it is officially ending the Freedom of Information Act obligations of its Office of Administration. That office provides broad administrative support to the White House—including the archiving of emails—and had been subject…
This statistic provides a pretty compelling snapshot of the severity of our income gap: In 2014, Wall Street’s bonus pool was roughly double the combined earnings of all Americans working full-time jobs at minimum wage. That sobering tidbit came from a new Institute for Policy Studies report by Sarah Anderson, who looked at new figures from the…
gallery js end gallery js start of gallery code Even big companies are getting screwed by NYC’s skyrocketing rents: Toys R Us will be leaving its enormous Times Square home next year. Commercial Observer broke the news, speaking with Cushman & Wakefield’s Brad Mendelson, who is marketing the 110,000 square foot space at Broadway between…