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Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Tuesday's Best Deals: All-Clad Pan, Samsung "The Frame" TVs, Bonobos, and More

An Amazon men’s shirt sale, Home Depot vacuums, Columbia fall sale, and Daniel’s Briefcases lead off Tuesday’s best deals from around the web.

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First Look: Amadou Fled Mauritania and the "Highest Rate of Slavery in the Entire World" in Netflix's Living Undocumented

As we witness what appears to be an immigration crisis in America, it’s important to remember the people behind the statistics and politics. They are the people you share space with every day who often live in fear that their next moment may be their last in a country they contribute to, just because they don’t have…

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Lynched Black Barbie found at Chicago high school sparks probe, soul searching

A top public high school in Illinois is trying to clean up its image after a Black Barbie doll was found with a noose around its neck last month.

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Jose Torres, the president of the high performing Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in Chicago sent a letter to parents after the lynched doll was found in a lounge where at least 10 students were present on Sept. 17, The NY Daily News reports.

“I write you with a heavy heart,” Torres wrote in an open letter on the school’s website.

“Our IMSA community suffers from the same ills affecting our entire American society where hate, bias and racial acrimony have replaced love, acceptance, tolerance and inclusion.”

Torres explained that an “unknown person tied a pink piece of cloth around a bronze skinned “Barbie-like” doll’s throat, and pinned it up from a cork-board in the student lounge.”

“There is no place for hate crimes at IMSA,” Torres stated. “We take this matter very seriously.”

According to the Chicago Tribune police were notified and surveillance footage was reviewed in an effort to catch the suspect.

The lounge Torres explained is “an area of campus that is meant to be a safe and inclusive space in which students have fun, relax, converse and otherwise unwind with friends.”

“As much as we refer to IMSA as a bunker, we are not immune to our greater society’s influence,” Torres wrote.

Torres also noted a number of measures that the school enacted to address cultural sensitivity including “working with Multicultural Advocates and other student leaders in each of the halls to facilitate a discussion with students,” which reportedly took place Sept. 26.

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Torres explained that a number of parents reached out to him, asking that he ensure their child’s safety. But he explained “society’s influence,” unfortunately, is  having a negative impact that he can’t control.

“Over the past week, I have corresponded with several parents who have asked me to assure them that their sons and daughters will not encounter bias or discrimination at IMSA ever again. I wish I could do so. As the Hate at School Report states, “Something ugly is happening in America’s schools.” Unfortunately, as much as we refer to IMSA as a bunker, we are not immune to our greater society’s influence.”

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Virginia Man Sues Local Paper, Reporter for Accurately Reporting His Family's Slaveholding History

Here’s the thing about descending from a “First Family of Virginia”—there’s going to be an abundance of receipts about your family’s slaveholding past.

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