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Fast Forward Workers at Seedy Mexico City Bar Charged in Murder of Malcolm X’s Grandson
Authorities in Mexico City have arrested two men on suspicion of the fatal beating of the grandson of U.S. civil rights activist Malcolm X in a bar last week and are looking for at least two more people, Mexico City Attorney General Rodolfo Rios said on Monday. Malcolm Shabazz, who police have said was 29,…
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Fast Forward Grandson of Malcolm X Died Amid Mariachi, Strippers and Sewage in Mexico
Left crumpled in the gutter after an ill-fated visit to a seedy club in a rough part of Mexico City, the grandson of murdered U.S. civil rights leader Malcolm X lay dying engulfed in the stench of sewage and a blaring cacophony of Mariachi music. He was beaten to death early on Thursday morning, police…
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Fast Forward Grandson of Malcolm X Beaten to Death in Mexico City
The grandson of murdered U.S. civil rights leader Malcolm X, Malcolm Shabazz, who was convicted as a child for a fire that killed his grandmother, has died in Mexico City after an apparent beating. Mexico’s attorney general’s office said a murder investigation was under way. Shabazz, 29, died early on Thursday morning after he was…
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Life Becoming More Jewish — In Mexico
I recently spent several weeks studying Spanish in Guanajuato. It’s an important historical city in central Mexico, where influential mines once stood and where the first battle of the Mexican War of Independence took place. Guanajuato is also a predominately Catholic city; my host family had large paintings of Catholic saints, ornate crosses and other…
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Fast Forward ‘I Burn Like a Jew’ Is Mexico’s 6th Most Popular Hashtag on Twitter
“I burn like a Jew” was the sixth most popular hashtag phrase among Mexican Twitter users a week after another anti-Semitic phrase trended in that country. The phrase, #MeQuemoComoJudío, made it to number six among Mexican users on Jan. 23, according to Twed.it, a website which measures the popularity of hashtags – a word, name…
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Fast Forward Watchdog Decries ‘Anti-Semitic Whirlwind’ on Mexican Twitter
A Spanish phrase about Jews set off “a whirlwind of anti-Semitic” messages on Twitter and became the second-most popular hashtag among Mexican users, according to a watchdog. “The hashtag #EsdeJudios exposes the antisemitisim of Mexican Tweeter surfers,” said a statement by the Coordination Forum for Countering Antisemitism. The international organization said the phrase, which means…
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Opinion UK Report: 10.8 Degree F Warming by 2100
The Guardian cites a new report from Price Waterhouse Cooper Consulting saying the world is on track for an average global temperature increase of 6 degrees C (10.8 F) by the end of the century at current rates of carbon emission, with catastrophic implications for human life. New research by consultancy giant PwC finds an…
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News South of the Border for Hanukkah
Mexico in December overflows with Christmas spirit. Virtually every home boasts a nativity scene and pots planted with bright-red poinsettias. And on Christmas Eve, families follow the solemn midnight Mass with a festive party filled with delicious food and a piñata for the kids. Unlike in America, where Hanukkah has become its own commercial and…
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