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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

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Ugandan Court Repeals Anti-Gay Law

Comments (0) | activists, anti-gay, attempted, condemnation, constitutional court, criminalized, discrimination, gay rights, homosexuality, human rights watch, life imprisonment, Nation and World, null, penalties, pressure, promotion, quorum, repeal, uganda, void

Francesca Bessey
Senior Opinion Editor

Human Rights Watch cautions that the gay rights abuses are not over yet.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

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U.S. Takes A Stance Against Homophobic Laws In Uganda

Comments (0) | Africa, aid to Uganda, anti-homosexuality, gay, gay marriage, gay rights, homophobia, homosexuality, lesbianism, Nation and World, Ofwono Opondo, Opondo, Presbyterian Church, same sex marriage, uganda, Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Act of 2014, Ugandan government, White House

Sara Newman
Deputy Editor

The Ugandan government calls the U.S.'s latest actions "blackmail."

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

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Super Bananas Await Human Testing

Comments (0) | Australia, Banana, bananas, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, blind, blindness, crop, crops, farm, farming, Farms, Food, fruit, fruits, human, humans, immune systems, nutrition, nutritional, queensland university of technology, science, Science, super banana, super bananas, test, tests, trial, trials, uganda, vitamin, vitamin A, vitamins

Researchers expect the super bananas to start growing in Uganda by 2020. (Twitter/@GetInsideFood)

Arash Zandi
Executive Producer

The super bananas have an abundance of vitamin A, unlike regular bananas.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

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Joseph Kony Is No Joke

Comments (25) | ben keesey, Bobby Bailey, Invisible Children, Invisible Children finances, Invisible Children: The Rough Cut, Jason Russell, Jedidiah Jenkins, Joseph Kony, Joseph Kony memes, Kony 2012, Kony 2012 memes, Laren Poole, Lord's Resistance Army, LRA, Opinion, The Pentagon, U.S. Department of Defense, uganda, Ugandan civil war

(KonyWorldFamous/Twitter)

Caitlin Plummer
Contributor

"The truth about Invisible Children is that we are not an aid organization, and we don’t intend to be."

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

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200 Publicly Outed After Ugandan Anti-Gay Law

Comments (0) | anti-gay, International, LGBT, uganda, Yoweri Museveni

World homosexuality laws (Image via Wikimedia Commons)

Sarah Geisler
Executive Producer

Ugandan homosexuals "EXPOSED!" as anti-gay sentiment deepens.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Ugandan President Signs Anti-Gay Law

Comments (0) | anti-gay, gay, homosexual, homosexuality, Nation and World, President, uganda, Yoweri Museveni

Raishad Hardnett
Executive Producer

The new law could mean life in prison for those who commit acts of homosexuality.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

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Ugandan President Refuses To Sign Anti-Gay Bill

Comments (0) | Africa, anti-gay bill, anti-gay law, Arash Zandi, east africa, gay, International, LGBT, lgbtq, lgbtqa, nigeria, uganda, Yoweri Museveni

People have successfully persuaded President Museveni to not sign the bill (via Twitter @stephenfry)

Arash Zandi
Executive Producer

The controversial bill would have jailed gay people for life.

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Uganda Bans Homosexuality

Comments (0) | anti-homosexuality bill, anti-homosexuality uganda, gay persecution, LGBT, Nation and World, uganda, uganda gay rights, uganda parliament, Yoweri Museveni

via Twitter/@thepinksnout

Jillian Morabito
Executive Producer

The bill in place now sentences gays to life in prison. 

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Film Review: 'The Finest Hours'

Craig Gillespie directed this true story about "the most daring rescue mission in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard.”

LIVE State of the Union Recap And Analysis

Watch USC Annenberg Media's live State of the Union recap and analysis here.

 

Public Health Fail: Circumcision Does Not Grant Immunity From AIDS

Comments (16) | Africa, AIDS, circumcision, contraception, health risk, hiv, HIV positive, HIV testing, humanitarian, medicine, myths, new york times, Opinion, propaganda, public health, sexually transmitted infections, shame, stereotypes, stigma, uganda, un, UNAIDS, unprotected sex

Aktionsbündnis gegen Aids, Creative Commons

Francesca Bessey
Senior Opinion Editor

Are we really playing a fine print game with AIDS awareness?

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