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'Racism in America is an institutional “white man’s problem visited on people of color,” Vice President Joe Biden said, arguing that the way to attack the issue is to defeat President Donald Trump and hold him responsible for deepening the nation’s racial divide.

Taking aim at incendiary racial appeals by Trump, Biden said in an interview with a small group of reporters on Tuesday that a president’s words can “appeal to the worst damn instincts of human nature,” just as they can move markets or take a nation into war.

Biden is leading his Democratic challengers for the presidential nomination in almost all polls, largely because of the support of black voters. He has made appealing to them central to his candidacy and vowed to make maximizing black and Latino turnout an “overwhelming focus” of his effort. The interview, more than an hour long, focused largely on racial issues.

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'Washington Spirit majority owner Steve Baldwin has learned in his first eight months on the job that professional women’s soccer players in the United States should not be paid the same as men. He thinks they should be paid more.

“They are better than the men as athletes,” the 58-year-old D.C.-area tech executive said this week. “This is the best league in the world. We have to change how we sell it, promote and market it. I believe the opportunity is there to where unequal pay is achieved and the women make more.”'

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FC Dallas under-15 boys squad beat the U.S. Women's National Team in a scrimmage

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'Cal State LA students must get a “B” or better on a sexual harassment and sexual violence test, if they hope to register for classes in the Spring 2020 semester.

In previous years, Cal State LA partnered with Campus Clarity for the required course material called “Think About It.” This past summer, however, the Cal State University system made the decision to partner with Vector Solutions and introduce the new module, “Not Anymore.”

“Not Anymore,” just like “Campus Clarity,” is a course designed to help students understand federal laws – including Title IX, legislation that prohibits sex or gender-based discrimination, including sexual harassment. The course is mandatory for all students in compliance with the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013.

The UT asked the campus Title IX Officer, Aundreia Cameron, why the course is important. In an email, Cameron said, “I am not available to answer questions regarding the “Not Anymore” course requirement.”'

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'Men who want more scholarship money might try a novel tactic: Identify themselves as women.

A review of more than 200 American colleges and universities reveals that they favor women over men by a wide margin in sex-specific scholarships.

The most stark disparities are found at the University of Phoenix (106 female scholarships to 2 male), Auburn University (67 to 1) and Oregon State (51 to 5).

The actual disparities could be higher: The study by Stop Abusive and Violent Environments, best known for defending students accused of sexual misconduct, only covered 36 states.'

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'Can colleges openly discriminate against male students accused of sexual misconduct, “so long as they masked their bias in any particular proceeding”?

That’s the question at stake in a Title IX lawsuit against Oberlin College, now before the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, according to the accused student, “John Doe.”
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John is counting on the 6th Circuit to supplement its rulings on due process in Title IX proceedings with a new ruling that makes it easier to demonstrate gender bias in those proceedings.

The Cincinnati-based appeals court has not only ruled that students have the right to cross-examine their accusers in some form, but that they can assign an “agent” such as a lawyer to conduct the cross-examination.

This challenges a common practice in adjudications: administrators or other adjudicators posing the questions from each party to the other, but excluding some as irrelevant or harassing.

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'Last month, the framed photographs of more than 30 past Multnomah County district attorneys -- stretching back more than a century and a half -- were removed from the front lobby of the DA’s Office.

All of them were white men.

Multnomah County District Attorney Rod Underhill declined Wednesday to explain why, but he said in a July 31 email to staff sent on the day after the removal that he’d “decided to change the decor” of the sixth-floor office lobby in the Multnomah County Courthouse.

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'A student asked during the live-streamed session if NASA had considered sending an all-female crew for the Artemis session.

Mr Bridenstine said: "Have we considered it? Yes, and it wouldn't surprise me if that's what we did.”

He also said the crew had not been picked yet but that the first American woman and the next American man will visit the moon by 2024.

He continued: "We could have a crew of two women going to the moon within five years.”

The Artemis mission is on a tight schedule with delays to NASA’s Space Launch System.

The rocket system will launch the Orion crew capsule and the moon-bound astronauts on their journey.

So far, only men have visited the moon but the Artemis mission could allow two female astronauts to walk the moon."'

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'A stellar cast of central Canadian journalists, all of them eminently female, has been selected to moderate the first federal election leaders’ debate. They are three news anchors — Lisa LaFlamme, Rosemary Barton and Dawna Friesen — and two columnists, Susan Delacourt and Althia Raj.

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'A few years ago, TV celebrity Rachel Maddow was at Rockefeller University to hand out a prize that's given each year to a prominent female scientist. As Maddow entered the auditorium, someone overheard her say, "What is up with the dude wall?"

She was referring to a wall covered with portraits of scientists from the university who have won either a Nobel Prize or the Lasker Award, a major medical prize.

"One hundred percent of them are men. It's probably 30 headshots of 30 men. So it's imposing," says Leslie Vosshall, a neurobiologist with the university and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Vosshall says Maddow's remark, and the word "dude wall," crystallized something that had been bothering her for years. As she travels around the country to give lectures and attend conferences at scientific institutions, she constantly encounters lobbies, conference rooms, passageways, and lecture halls that are decorated with portraits of white men.

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'A Boston College student had his suspension for an alleged sexual misconduct incident temporarily overturned by a federal judge on Tuesday. The student, identified only as “John Doe” in court documents, filed a civil suit against the University on July 29 in which he alleged that he was deprived of a fair process during BC’s disciplinary proceedings involving him this spring.

This case is unrelated to the $3 million dollar lawsuit pending against the University.

This appears to be the first time a court has overturned a suspension issued by the University. The court order says that Doe should be allowed, “without limitation” to register for classes this fall. Doe will also be allowed to participate fully in all University activities.'

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'While due process in campus investigations is essential — and making a comeback thanks to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and courts which have taken a stand for wrongfully accused students -- it is even more vital when it comes to criminal sexual assault cases.

That’s why it was shocking the nation’s largest membership group of lawyers, the American Bar Association, considered supporting a measure that would have turned due process on its head in these cases.

The ABA’s House of Delegates put up a resolution that would have encouraged legislatures to “define consent in sexual assault cases as the assent of a person who is competent to give consent to engage in a specific act of sexual penetration, oral sex, or sexual contact.”

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'A summer course at the University of California, Los Angeles, is using the rapper Cardi B to explore the subject of “respectability politics” and its “historical relationship with black women.”

The class, taught by guest lecturer Christian Green, “analyzes U.S. history, ranging from the post-Reconstruction era to the country’s current political administration, and the struggle for black women to gain respect in American society,” according to The Daily Bruin.

The professor is a “self-professed Cardi B fan” who admires the rapper’s “rise to worldwide success without sacrificing her authenticity, such as the way she speaks,” as well as her involvement in the socialist Bernie Sanders’ political campaign.'

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Cardi B explains why she 'drugged and robbed' men

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'“I don’t need a man!” This phrase has been celebrated in the modern feminist movement as a cry of liberation, self-love, and condemnation of the so-called patriarchy. The idea that women should reject the necessary involvement of men is not only accepted, it’s encouraged. What does this liberation entail? Not being serious about settling down or finding a suitable partner, sex without consequences, delaying marriage, and raising children without the presence of their father.
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The great irony about the self-proclaimed progressivism of modern-day feminism is the onset of cultural regression that results from it. The fatherless rate has tripled since 1960, with some inner cities seeing upwards of 70 percent. This deconstruction of the nuclear family has brought increased depression, anxiety, suicide, drug abuse, crime, domestic violence, decreased levels of education, and not to mention a heavy reliance on government to replace the father figure in the home.

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'“While men may not have a natural ability advantage in STEM fields, the numerous government and other policy initiatives designed to get women interested in STEM fields may have the unintended effect of signaling to women an inherent lack of fit,” the Georgetown report reads.

Given the overwhelming female domination in neurobiology, environmental biology, and biology of global health, it is a fallacy to assert that STEM fields are inherently male and dominated by men. “Society keeps telling us that STEM fields are masculine fields, that we need to increase the participation of women in STEM fields, but that kind of sends a signal that it’s not a field for women, and it kind of works against keeping women in these fields,” Kugler explains.

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'The Supreme Court on Wednesday clarified that sex on the false promise of marriage does not automatically amount to rape. The judgment given by Justices DY Chandrachud and Indira Banerjee states: “The promise of marriage must have been a false promise, given in bad faith and with no intention of being adhered to at the time it was given. The false promise itself must be of immediate relevance or bear a direct nexus to the woman's decision to engage in the sexual act.”

The court made the distinction between the breach of a promise and deceiving the woman. The judgment stated that in a situation where the promise made is false and was made with the intention of deceiving the woman, it is not consensual. On the other hand, the judges said that a breach of promise cannot be a false promise.