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For someone who is in love and recently married, a wedge of “very odd pain” is lodged in Mpho Tutu van Furth’s heart. It is caused by the South African Anglican church’s refusal to allow the daughter of one of the world’s best known Christian leaders to continue to work as a priest after she married the person with whom she has pledged to share the rest of her life: a woman. “It was hard for me to give up my [priest’s] licence, it felt incredibly sad,” Tutu van Furth – whose father, Desmond Tutu, won the Nobel peace prize...

The 4th Ave Jail in Maricopa County, AZ is on lockdown after "a large scale fight involved 25 Hispanic and black inmates broke out" yesterday as reported by KSAZ: "the Mexican Mafia inmates are allegedly putting out orders to all Hispanic inmates to refuse to be housed with black inmates and to beat them up." The racial tension between Latino and black gang members has been a long-standing problem for prison officials across the country. Earlier this year 300 inmates were involved in a race riot at Kern Valley State Prison in Delano, CA after members from Southern Hispanics and...

On Wednesday I was visited by one of my former supervisors who has moved on to a more lucrative and prestigious position at the head of another inner-city school. “Lord Gene,” as I used to call him, is a 50-year-old multi-degreed, black professional who never fails to impress everyone that he meets. He cuts a patrician figure amongst the plebeians that are his vocational peers (myself included) as he dresses immaculately be it Saturday night or Monday morning. As I was scoring some child assessment materials I looked up to notice that Gene was in my office. He had an...

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