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Recent Articles
The secret to happiness? Stanford professor says it’s forgiveness
By ANGELA HILL | Bay Area News Group
Courtesy of Mercury News
Here’s a prescription for better health and happiness: Forgive.
Yes, forgiving someone who has hurt you can reduce anger, depression, stress – and even blood pressure — and lead to greater feelings of optimism, hope, compassion and self-confidence.
This is not just a nice, ethereal concept or something a Sunday school teacher once told you to do. There’s a method to this gladness, with ongoing research that shows forgiveness can promote improved mental and physical health.
We spoke with Dr. Fred Luskin, director […]
The Long Racism of the Sex Industry
By Christen Price, Esq.
Courtesy of End Sexual Exploitation
The sex trade is a haven for racial violence in this country. It violates the most basic human rights of women and girls of color, largely with impunity, as it has for centuries. Under chattel slavery in the antebellum South, enslaved black women were commonly raped by their owners and owners’ friends. Sometimes they were abused so that their forced reproductive labor would produce children that the owner wouldn’t have to bother to buy.
Some women, particularly those who were light-skinned, were sold as sex slaves to white men in the […]