Anne-Marie McReynolds's blog

Fruit Salad Day Serves Up Health and Nutrition at School

In line with the USDA’s recent ‘Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food

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Videos, Voters, and Youth

The idea behind the online organizing movement is simple:  go where the people are.

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AIDS Awareness days

Blogging to End AIDS: 'Our failure to act'

Is our failure to act based in a covert belief that White life is more valuable than Black life?

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B is Failing Grade for Asians

“When people ask if you’ve failed on a test, you know they’re asking if you’ve gotten a B (Asian fail) or a D (white fail),” says Yoona Lee, 17. 

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Katrina Evacuees or Climate Refugees

When the first pictures of Hurricane Katrina flashed on television in 2005, media used “refugee” to describe those displaced residents.

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On Romantic Idealism

When you get to college, no one ever asks, "what do you want to be when you grow up?"

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Blogging for Human Rights: Free Speech

Is free speech a human right?

Google says no.

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In the name of Loving

Once upon a Jim Crow time, a black woman and white man fell in love, married, and pleaded guilty to violating state miscegenation law.

The Lovings were convicted by a judge who wrote, “Almighty God … did not intend for the races to mix.”

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'Am I not human?'

Are Darfuris and Tibetans not human?

At least 200,000 are thought to have died and more than 2.5 million more are believed to have fled their homes in the face of atrocities and the destruction of villages in the Darfur region of oil-rich Sudan.

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15 cents for a plastic bag

Bring your own bag or pay a fee.

If a new bill passes, California will require retailers to charge 15 cents for one-time use plastic shopping bags.

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