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From IVF to Miscarriages: 5 Ways We Can Talk About Infertility

By opening up about her struggles with pregnancy, former First Lady Michelle Obama launches a public conversation about something many women suffer in private. After two miscarriages at age 41, Amy Klein decided to visit a fertility clinic. It took her five clinics and four years to finally carry a pregnancy to term. And recognizing a void in conversations around fertility and information about it, she began to chronicle her experiences. She wrote about it in a regular New York Times column, addressing her private concerns in a public way. She became the person people went to for online advice about infertility and in vitro fertilization. But Klein found that the more she wrote and talked about it, the more obvious the need for guidance and support appeared. The reality i...
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A Way to Talk About Race, 6 Words at a Time

If you were asked to sum up your thoughts about race in six words, could you do it? Eight years ago, Michele Norris, former host of NPR’s All Things Considered, asked people attending the book tour for her 2010 memoir, The Grace of Silence, to do just that. The exercise was meant as a conversation starter, a way to engage people on the uncomfortable subject by having them write their thoughts on postcards and then share them with others—directly and online. But Norris’ Race Card Project has become much more. Businesses, churches, and other institutions have used it to facilitate uneasy discussions around race. “When I first started asking people to share their little six-word stories on postcards that I had printed, I didn’t know what it would become,” Norris said. “I’ve been surprised...
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Emilia Clarke Talks About Doing Nude Scenes
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Emilia Clarke Talks About Doing Nude Scenes

Emilia Clarke has been pretty vocal about her nude scenes in Game of Thrones. But she's also been relatively flip-floppy on her stance on them. After Season 4 of Game of Thrones, Clarke vowed to never do a nude scene for the show again. She told interviewers in 2015 that "sex scenes should be more subtle," saying  that she'd be participating in fewer of them in upcoming seasons of the show. "I'm British, so I cringe at that sort of thing anyway. I can't stand it," she added. Clarke clarified her statements later, claiming they were taken out of context. "Sometimes explicit scenes are required and make sense for the characters/story, as they do in Westeros. If it’s gratuitous for gratuitous sake, then I will discuss with a director on how to make it more subtle," she said.  Clarke recentl...
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Celebrity Gossip What Is So Good About It?
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Celebrity Gossip What Is So Good About It?

The United States is the home of stars, and most people that are devoted admirers of celebrities will subscribe to celebrity gossip magazines, and watch television stations and radio programs that share the stories of famous people. Gossip can destroy other people whether they are famous or not. There have been cases of friendships ending and people taking their lives because someone somewhere has been saying not too pleasant things about them. But, is there some good that one can possibly get from reading about the private lives of other people? The answer is yes, there is some sort of good that will come from reading about famous people. A lot of people learn from reading about famous people and the mistakes that they have made in their lives. For instance, if a famous person was caught...
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Logan Paul has returned to YouTube with a video about his own redemption story
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Logan Paul has returned to YouTube with a video about his own redemption story

Logan Paul’s return to YouTube was inevitable. Sure, he had vlogged the dead body of a suicide victim, a video that grotesquely proved the troubling thesis about YouTube culture that everything, eventually, can and will become someone’s viral content. Three weeks after apologizing for the video, losing his access to YouTube’s premium ad program and seeing his future projects with YouTube’s subscription service put on hold, Paul posted a new video on his vlogging channel on Wednesday, which has 16 million subscribers. It’s called: “Suicide: Be Here Tomorrow.” The tone of Paul’s vlogs are normally that of a frat boy with a new puppy. His newest video, like his other videos, focuses squarely on Paul’s thoughts, experiences and feelings, but that’s where the similarities end. Instead, Paul ...
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12 Reasons Biking Is About to Get Way More Popular

For too long, biking has been viewed skeptically as a white-people thing, a big city thing, an ultra-fit athlete thing, a 20-something thing, a guy thing, a warm weather thing, or an upper-middle class thing. But times are changing. More than 100 million Americans rode a bike in 2014, and bicycles have outsold cars most years in the U.S. since 2003. Latinos bike more than any other racial group, followed by Asians and Native Americans. African Americans and whites bike at about the same rate. Most bicyclists are low-income, according to census figures—as many as 49 percent of bike commuters make less than $25,000 a year. From 1990 to 2012, bike commuting tripled in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Minneapolis, Portland. We still have a long way to go to make a bike-frien...
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5 Things That Black and White People Don’t Understand About Each Other
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5 Things That Black and White People Don’t Understand About Each Other

In the next couple of months, we might very well have our first black president here in the U. S. So I feel that black and white people in this country should start working on embracing, or at least respecting, each other's culture. There are a lot of things about white people that many black Americans don't understand and vice versa. Many times we have a negative reaction to things we don't understand. But when we see our fellow Americans of other ethnicities engage in activities that we can't quite relate to, we should respect that and appreciate their differences. Because no matter how much we try to rationalize, there are things that black and white people will never "get" about each other. With that being said, I have compiled a short list of 5 Things that black and white people don't...
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Beyoncé, Alicia Keys & More Speak Up About Being Black in America
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SOCIAL JUSTICE

Beyoncé, Alicia Keys & More Speak Up About Being Black in America

Beyoncé, Alicia Keys, Rihanna and more are making a powerful statement about being black in America. Sharing “23 Ways You Could Be Killed If You’re Black in America,” the video highlights the innocuous and everyday actions black citizens do that trigger police brutality. Source: Beyoncé, Alicia Keys & More Speak Up About Being Black in America « Radio.com
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