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Saint Mary’s hosts panelists to increase awareness on local, national and global human trafficking

Maeve Filbin and Johannah Ward | Tuesday, November 19, 2019

The President’s Committee on Sexual Violence and the Division for Mission at Saint Mary’s invited students to participate in a discussion panel Monday, to learn more about the “Save Our Adolescents from Prostitution,” or SOAP, project and the presence of human trafficking in the local community. SOAP, a “hands-on outreach to fight sex trafficking at

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‘White Boy Rick’ gets high off its own supply

Jake Winningham | Thursday, September 20, 2018

“White Boy Rick,” the newest film from French director Yann Demange, is a highly entertaining and embarrassingly facile look at the war on drugs. The Rick of the title is real-life Richard Wershe Jr., who became an FBI informant and drug kingpin in Detroit at the age of 15. In telling his story, the movie

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Ottessa Moshfegh presents: ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation,’ a clinically proven cure to ennui

Mike Donovan | Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Death, life’s only fixity, is also its only natural sweetener (certified 100 percent organic), and as such, its stoic presence illuminates all the feeble estuaries — love, fear or, as Roland Barthes writes, “events, setbacks, annoyances” — flowing around its immovable presence. Death turns these meager rivers into juice and soda, flavored with granules of

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Mick Jenkins seeks healing on debut LP

Augie Collins | Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Looking at Mick Jenkins’ “The Healing Component” from the surface, it’s easy to scoff and think of the LP as nothing more than another rapper’s take on the ever-present theme of love. Take a step back, folks. “The Healing Component” may not be revolutionary, but it does provide us with a fresh take that pumps

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Love, drugs and Charles Barkley: healing racial tensions

Dan Sehlhorst | Thursday, December 11, 2014

Martin Luther King, Jr., writing in his book “Strength to Love,” declared this beautiful sentiment: “Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” Hate tears down society