Sometimes black excellence translates to mean a group of black kids beating all odds to snag a college degree; sometimes it could mean a black immigrants discovering the solution of an age-old problem or rising to be a senator in a white-dominated space; other times it could be a young black woman making her dreams come through with brilliance and resilience. Our Woman Crush Wednesday, Issa Rae, is that woman for us. Starting from the bottom, Rae first garnered recognition on YouTube for her comedy series, Awkward Black Girl, however, she has since climbed up the ladder to co-writing and…
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Melissa Kang, University of Technology Sydney I Need to Know is an ongoing series for teens in search of reliable, confidential advice about life’s tricky questions. If you’re a teen, send us your questions about sex, drugs, health and relationships and we’ll ask an expert to answer it for you. Hi, I have a question after reading a published piece for I Need To Know. Masturbating has always seemed to be acceptable for boys, but less commonly discussed among girls. Is it normal for girls to masturbate and are there any health consequences? I am a girl who accidentally discovered…
Following a call for nominations and voting by the readers of Pride Magazine Nigeria, the Awards Committee of the Pride Women Conference are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019 Jewel of Inestimable Value Awards – Late Professor Dora Akunyili and Her Excellency Aisha Buhari. The Jewel of Inestimable Value Awards is given to women, living or dead, who have contributed greatly to the betterment of society and the world. Late Professor Dora Akunyili who was appointed Director General of the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) in 2001 gained national and international prominence as a…
Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, Curtin University A large number of artefacts held in Western museums and libraries are known to have been appropriated over the ages through conquest and colonialism. The looting of African objects anthropologists, curators and private collectors took place in war as well as in peaceful times. It was justified as an act of benevolence; as saving dying knowledge. Some museums have started to try and acknowledge that their collections have uncomfortable histories tied to colonial violence. Nevertheless, Britain’s long-standing policy is not to cease ownership over its looted treasures. As then-Prime Minister David Cameron said of Greece’s…
Ruth Brooks, University of Huddersfield and Dennis Duty, University of Huddersfield One of the main reasons given by students for going to university is to get a good job afterwards, but with around 500,000 people graduating each year the job market is extremely competitive. A university course will help you develop some of the skills that employers are looking for, but you need more than a degree certificate to get a graduate-level job. Companies want to see other achievements as well as qualifications, and they also want to make sure you have the right employability skills to be able to…
Holy Humour Leave them in their ignorance. One day, 3 men died and went to heaven. “Religion?” God’s secretary asked the first man. “Jewish,” the man replied. “Okay, go to room 23, but be very quiet when you go past room 8,” the secretary said. “Religion?” he asked the second man. “Muslim.” “Go to room 10, but be very quiet when you go past room 8.” “Religion?” he asked the third man. “Agnostic.” “Go to room 71, but be very quiet when you go past room 8.” “Why must I be quiet when I go past room 8?” the man…
Bless the children. For in this world, They have no choice. With their little voices, hearts and spirits, They show us the innocence of life. Let us guide and guard them, For they are the future, And the purest of all. Look at that child, I can see how it moves. I can hear what it says. Carefree and careless, But gentle in every way. It explores; it searches Knowing and seeing what we can’t. Adaudo Anyiam-Osigwe from her book of poems – Words from Beyond When Crying for Myself: Musings from Childhood.xosotin chelseathông tin chuyển nhượngcâu lạc…
Reading 1 Acts 8:1b-8 There broke out a severe persecution of the Church in Jerusalem, and all were scattered throughout the countryside of Judea and Samaria, except the Apostles. Devout men buried Stephen and made a loud lament over him. Saul, meanwhile, was trying to destroy the Church; entering house after house and dragging out men and women, he handed them over for imprisonment. Now those who had been scattered went about preaching the word. Thus Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed the Christ to them. With one accord, the crowds paid attention to what was…
Joel Michael Reynolds, University of Massachusetts Lowell The use of self-tracking and personal surveillance technologies has grown considerably over the last decade. There are now apps to monitor people’s movement, health, mindfulness, sleep, eating habits and even sexual activity. Some of the more thorny problems arise from apps designed to track others, like those made for parents to track their kids. For example, there are specific apps that allow parents to monitor their child’s GPS location, who they call, what they text, which apps they use, what they view online and the phone number of their contacts. As a bioethicist…
Oludayo Tade, University of Ibadan Transactional sex among female undergraduates in Nigeria is a social reality. The practice has been reported on regularly in the mainstream media and explored in various research papers. This cross generational relationship is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa, and across the world where sponsors are commonly known as “sugar daddies”. In our study on transactional sex in Nigerian universities, my colleague and I looked at the symbiotic relationship between some female Nigerian undergraduate students and aristos – wealthy, married or unmarried men. The students have transactional sex with the aristos in exchange for financial, social or…