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U.S. celebrity chef explains use of racial epithet in deposition
Reuters(Reuters) - U.S. celebrity chef Paula Deen, known for her high-calorie Southern cooking, admitted in a deposition that surfaced on Wednesday that she has used racial slurs but her attorney says she does not tolerate prejudice. A former employee of...Tags: Recipes, Trials, Food Network (tv network), Paula Deen, Justice System
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Paula Deen Admits Using N-Word, But Not in a 'Mean' Way
ReutersJun 20 (TheWrap.com) - Paula Deen said in a deposition last month that she has occasionally used the N-word -- but not in a "mean" way. The Food Network star and her brother, Bubba Hiers, are being sued by Lisa T. Jackson, a former employee of their...Tags: Minority Groups, Food Network (tv network), Paula Deen, Arts and Culture, Culture
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Richard Pryor and Don Draper, soul mates
Somewhere in the middle of Showtime's new documentary about Richard Pryor, it hit me: They're also talking here about Don Draper, the antihero at the center of the TV series "Mad Men," which concludes its sixth season Sunday night. On the face of it,...
Tags: Breaking Bad (tv program), Mad Men (tv program), Entertainment, Game of Thrones (tv program), Celebrities
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City close to 'magic' moment
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND -- Joe Abraham has fond memories of growing up in India in the 1970s and '80s. But, now with an entrepreneur's mindset, he looks back with wonder that it took so long for his home country's economy to catch fire. The India of his youth...Tags: Small Businesses, Business, Business Enterprises, Arts and Culture, Kevin Allen
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Film explores effects of solar projects on Native American life
Documentary filmmaker Robert Lundahl’s latest work, "Who Are My People?," explores the effects of large-scale solar energy developments on Native American spiritual and cultural connections to Southern California’s scorched outback of creosote...
Tags: Renewable Energy, Environmental Issues, Alternative Energy, Arts and Culture, Culture
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Lynchburg businesses experience random acts of culture
Reporter/Lynchburg Bureau ChiefActors are taking over Lynchburg businesses this week. Members of the Endstation Theater Company are making surprise visits to companies like R.R. Donnelley, Babcock & Wilcox, and Bank of the James. Endstation members are acting out scenes from a play...Tags: Lynchburg (Lynchburg, Virginia), Business, Economic Policy, Arts and Culture, Culture
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Ancient shellfish suggest modern humans evolved 50,000 years ago
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.The development of art, culture, and advanced cognitive ability that define modern humans may not have evolved until 50,000 years ago, according to a new study published online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Richard Klein...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Africa, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Archaeology, Seafood
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Australia eyes Buddha and baccarat to lure Chinese tourists
ReutersBy Jane Wardell SYDNEY, June 18 (Reuters) - Australia's coastal Wyong region outside Sydney, a pretty stretch of pristine beaches and wildlife-filled wetlands, isn't high on the travel agenda of most Chinese tourists. But the local mayor and a Chinese...Tags: Manila (Philippines), Theme Park Vacations, Amusement and Theme Parks, Beijing (China), Macau
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Diversity efforts in lacrosse slow to pay off, but it's a start
When Chazz Woodson, a midfielder for Major League Lacrosse's Ohio Machine, stated recently that a racial epithet had been directed at him three times during his collegiate career at Brown, once by an opposing player and twice by teammates, the old myth...
Tags: Minority Groups, Major League Lacrosse, Social Issues, Ohio Machine, Racism
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READER SUBMITTED: CREC Teacher And Jazz Performer To Receive Spirit Of Juneteenth Award
HartfordContinuing an impressive series of awards and recognitions, the CREC Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts is proud to announce that Paul Brown, an artist and instructor at the Academy, is the 2013 recipient of the Amistad Center for Arts and Culture's...Tags: Entertainment, The Amistad, Music, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Arts and Culture
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About Mary Riedel
Mary Riedel is President and CEO of Women in Distress of Broward County, serving the families and children who are victims of domestic violence from its expanded Jim and Jan Moran Family Center Campus in Deerfield Beach. With the agency's expansion...
Tags: African American Research Library, Palm Beach County, Miami City Ballet, Marquette University, Arts and Culture
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For U.S. military, an enemy within
The Philadelphia InquirerThe following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Thursday, June 13: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has been leading the charge against the sexual assault crisis in the military, which has been struggling to curb the culture that yielded 26,000...Tags: John McCain, Kirsten Gillibrand, Prosecution, Carl Levin, United States Naval Academy
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