Today's Fresh Blogs...

• L'Oreal - the ugly face of the French beauty conglomerate

  Published: July 7, 2007, 6:14 pm

  Tags: Soap Opera, L Oreal, Ethnicity, White Perfect, Mexico, France, Race Card

  products and to prescribe ethnicity specific representativeness in things like soap operas. End of story. We have been waiting for voluntarily sensible behaviours, and they just didn't happen. The French court was right to punish those involved. The country must have learned something from the race riots it recently

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• Reader's Questions: Answers Sought!

  Published: August 14, 2007, 8:47 am

  Tags: Philippines, Asia, Race Amp Amp Ethnicity, Diagnosis, Psychology, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Education, Family, Health, Pdd Nos, Philippines, Schools, Therapy, Treatment

  Back on July 18th, Victoria Elizaga left a comment on the post Autism Consciousness Week in the Philippines. Victoria, I regret it has taken me so long to respond—-here is the comment: “Hello everyone! I'm marrid to a Phillipeno and our youngest has just been diagnosed with ADHA. My mother and I both have dyslexia to some some exent,

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• Immigration: It's a Family Issue

  Published: September 10, 2007, 10:23 am

  Tags: Mommy Family, Politics News, Race Ethnicity Culture, Immigration

  When I taught English composition in a Kansas City area community college a few years ago, I brought up the subject of immigration one night. My students were having trouble brainstorming topics for a persuasive essay, and I thought this one might touch a cord in my classroom mixed by age, race and educational level. Shortly after one student

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• Learning the Lessons of Ugly Betty: Real Women Have Curves

  Published: September 11, 2007, 4:50 pm

  Tags: Beauty, Body Image, Entertainment Books, Feminism Gender, Media Journalism, Race Ethnicity Culture, America Ferrera, Glamour Magazine, Ugly Betty

  For every advance we make in countering the constant drumbeat of messages telling women that, no matter what, our bodies are not good enough and that we should feel shame, hatred and disgust there are many more that reinforce the message. Hot on the heels of the Redbook/Faith Hill photoshopping outrage (Read posts from ClizBiz and Susan Wagner)

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• The West Virgina Rape Case - Not a Hate Crime?

  Published: September 13, 2007, 12:38 pm

  Tags: Race Ethnicity Culture

  The six Logan County, West Virginia residents who were charged with the week-long forcible confinement of a 20 year-old black woman who was beaten, sexually assaulted and forced to eat dog and rat feces will not be charged with a hate crime. Last Sunday police visited a mobile home in a remote area after an anonymous tip was called in from someone

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• Go ahead -- Do it. Sue God. After all, a state senator just did.

  Published: September 18, 2007, 11:32 pm

  Tags: Law, Race Ethnicity Culture, Chambers, Ernie Chambers, Nebraska, Nebraska Senator, Omaha, Sues God

  Nebraska is an interesting state. It is the only state with a unicameral state legislature. And its longest seated state senator, in his last term of office, has decided to sue God. (It has been rumored that term limits were put in place to oust this senator in particular. But rumors are rumors.) Senator Ernie Chambers makes the case that lawsuits

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• Demonstration for the Jena 6 in Louisiana Today Are you wearing black?

  Published: September 20, 2007, 3:44 pm

  Tags: Race Ethnicity Culture

  Right now, it is estimated that over 40,000 people are in the tiny town of Jena, Louisiana for a demonstration to protest the Jena 6 case. In case you haven't read any of the previous posts here on Blogher, or missed national news reports (which was pretty easy since they just started reporting it after ignoring it for months) or to be quite

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• Modern Dolls: Slut-Trainers or Empowerment Tools? Is There a Middle Ground?

  Published: September 21, 2007, 1:17 pm

  Tags: Beauty, Body Image, Feminism Gender, Pop Culture, Race Ethnicity Culture, American Girl Dolls, Barbie, Bratz, Dolls

  According to my learnings, which include Wikipedia, other opinionated mothers I know, and four lovingly-wasted years as a budding art historian, dolls are possibly the oldest toy in the world. They have been found in the children's graves dating back thousands of years, and were often made of wood or pottery. I am guessing that these are just the

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• Reqiuem in B: A Composition on the B-Word

  Published: September 23, 2007, 3:43 pm

  Tags: Feminism Gender, Race Ethnicity Culture, B Word, Isiah Thomas

  A few years ago, one of my closest friends nicknamed me Bee. Although it might seem like she picked the name for me because I am often buzzing around angrily, this is not actually how it originated. The truth is that we affectionately referred to each other for some time as b**ch, which then turned into the longer, funnier,

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• Requiem in B: A Composition on the B-Word

  Published: September 23, 2007, 3:43 pm

  Tags: Feminism Gender, Race Ethnicity Culture, B Word, Isiah Thomas

  A few years ago, one of my closest friends nicknamed me Bee. Although it might seem like she picked the name for me because I am often buzzing around angrily, this is not actually how it originated. The truth is that we affectionately referred to each other for some time as b**ch, which then turned into the longer, funnier,

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• The Clinton Global Initiative

  Published: September 24, 2007, 11:03 am

  Tags: Bloghers Act, Green Eco Conscious, Politics News, Race Ethnicity Culture, Research Academia Education, Social Change Non Profits Ngos, World

  I am so excited about this. The Clinton Global Initiative has granted me a press pass to live-blog the conference! One of the first sessions of the first day is on ... get this ... maternal health. How perfect is that? BlogHers Act votes to make something happen on maternal health, and the world lines up. I'm going to interview everyone I

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• Media and Law Roundup: The DAILYNESS of it All!

  Published: September 25, 2007, 7:51 pm

  Tags: Law, Media Journalism, Politics News, Race Ethnicity Culture, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, Pres Bush, Tavis Smiley

  Former New York Times editor James "Scotty" Reston was reputed to exclaim, "Oh! The dailyness of it all!" whenever breaking events interfered with his plans to cover some story in depth. That's the the way I feel right now -- this post was supposed to be a preview of this Thursday's All-American Presidential Candidates Forum for GOP candidates,

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• Live-blogging the Clinton Global Initiative

  Published: September 26, 2007, 9:51 am

  Tags: Africa, Asia, Australia Nz Oceania, Bloghers Act, Brazil, Canada, Europe, Green Eco Conscious, Health Wellness, Italy, Latin America Caribbean, Middle East, Politics News, Race Ethnicity Culture, Social Change Non Profits Ngos, Southeast Asia, United States, World

  Here's some of what's happening today at the Clinton Global Initiative ... 10:03 - They've just announced the names of all the heads of state who are here today (52 of them), representing 72 countries. Former President Clinton just came on stage. "More than 600 commitments have been made. 20 mllion tons of greenhouse gases avoided, 3 million

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• Live-blogging the Clinton Global Initiative with Former President Clinton, Angelina and Brad

  Published: September 26, 2007, 9:51 am

  Tags: Africa, Asia, Australia Nz Oceania, Bloghers Act, Brazil, Canada, Europe, Green Eco Conscious, Health Wellness, Italy, Latin America Caribbean, Middle East, Politics News, Race Ethnicity Culture, Social Change Non Profits Ngos, Southeast Asia, United States, World

  Here's some of what's happening today at the Clinton Global Initiative ... 10:03 - They've just announced the names of all the heads of state who are here today (52 of them), representing 72 countries. Former President Clinton just came on stage. "More than 600 commitments have been made. 20 mllion tons of greenhouse gases avoided, 3 million

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• Bill O' Reilly and Adrienne Curry - Foot In Mouth Syndrome?

  Published: September 27, 2007, 5:25 pm

  Tags: Race Ethnicity Culture

  This week I found myself laughing at work which trust me, is a rarity. Tears of joy? Oh No. It was more like, this is crazzzy. Have I been transported into an alternate universe? Sitting in my cubicle, I struggled to muffle the brays of laughter that threatened to spill out of my mouth as I surreptitiously checked my personal emails. On

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