Social Justice 3
Target continues to break down barriers by featuring a child with disabilities
Halloween may be over but Target’s costume flyer is still getting attention. Once again, Target shows what an inclusive company they are. The ad features a young girl with leg braces, dressed as Frozen’s Elsa. A simple move by Target has meant so much to so many parents and kids. Jen Spickenagel Kroll is one of them, and she took to Facebook to show her gratitude
… Keep Reading!!!Dear Target,
I love you. Thank you for including a child with braces and
Japanese American Incarceration (Japanese Internment Camps)
By Nina Wallace
February 19th marks seventy-two years since President Franklin Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066. A response to Pearl Harbor, it authorized the army to designate military zones from which they could exclude any person deemed a threat. Beginning in March 1942, they did just that: about 120,000 Japanese Americans were rounded up and “evacuated,” first to temporary “assembly centers” (where families often found themselves living in hastily-converted parking lots or horse stables) and then to ten concentration … Keep Reading!!!
Woman Ordered to be Gang Raped by Village Council
A 20-year-old woman in Subalpur, West Bengal, has been hospitalized after surviving a vicious gang rape ordered by the local village council.
The council members allegedly ordered the attack because the woman had started a relationship with someone who was of a different religion and lived in a different village. She was ordered to pay a $400 fine, but when her family could not afford the fee, the council members ordered her to be raped by multiple men.
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