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Heather Hardy : The Fight Lady - The Fight CityThe Fight City
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To understand why Heather Hardy thinks of herself as a fighter is to know her life story, which is well documented. Raped by a drug dealer in her neighborhood in Brooklyn before she hit her teens. Married and divorced before she finished college. A single mom working multiple jobs because she had no child support. Hurricane Sandy destroying her home and forcing her to crash with her sister. Running nine miles a day to train at Gleason’s Gym in Brooklyn’s Dumbo district.

Today, she is one of the most recognizable faces in combat sports, her life battles serving as a backdrop to a perfect 20–0 record in her five years as a professional boxer.

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Hardy herself could have chosen the path well traveled. With a forensic science degree from John Jay College in New York, she could have landed a job at the police force. Or she could have chosen to pursue a career in internet marketing, which she had started to do after college. Yet she chose a path that many tend to view as having more drawbacks than benefits for a woman.

“I’m a very passionate person and I didn’t feel passionate about anything I was doing,” she said of her life prior to boxing. “It sounds so horrible coming from me, saying this as a mother. I was a mother and I love my daughter but I didn’t feel like it was what defined me. I’m her mom but I didn’t want to die just being her mom. I needed something where I wasn’t a mother, I wasn’t someone’s ex-wife, where I wasn’t just someone’s friend or someone’s employee. I needed something that made me.” And Heather Hardy found that boxing, and especially winning, gave her that sense of having achieved something for herself.

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“I don’t see this dying out and me ending up as a hotdog vendor or something,” she laughed. “I’m smart. I didn’t get this far without knowing how to get this far.”

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#boxe (bon #mma là)

#ICANTBREATHE
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One morning last semester at John Jay College in #New_York City, I asked my students how many of them had ever been stopped by the police. All of them.....

#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #activism #African_Americans #EDITORIAL #Eric_Garner #I_Can't_Breathe #Justice #POLITICS #Stop_and_Frisk #United_States

Prison Program Turns Inmates Into Intellectuals - NYTimes.com
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Still, an intellectual firmament has taken hold. On a recent afternoon, 10 men gathered under the tutelage of Baz Dreisinger, a professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, to share some of their writing and to talk about the Brazilian philosopher Paulo Freire’s “Pedagogy of the Oppressed.” One of the students, Theron Smith, serving time on a second-degree murder conviction, noted that Freire’s work called to mind Hegel and the theory of double consciousness. Mr. Smith is an avid consumer of sociological texts; his longtime friend Rowland Davis, next to him in class that day, has immersed himself in theology. Another student had been creating an elaborately illustrated graphic novel.

In nearly every instance, when the men read from their own compositions, the writing was absorbing, learned and impeccable. All of the men had gained admission, through a competitive application process, to a program initiated by John Jay three years ago that allows prisoners who have high school diplomas or G.E.D.s, and who are eligible for release within five years, to amass college credits, and then when they leave, to complete degrees in the City University system. Ms. Dreisinger is the program’s academic director and founder, overseeing the teaching of art history, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Toni Morrison and so on. She is adamant about the instruction of grammar, which is why the men’s writing stands out even beside what you might find among students at elite high schools where a warning about dangling modifiers is often considered a benighted waste of time.

#education #prison

So, Black Men Get Better Healthcare In Prison ? Pathetic | News One
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Black men are half as likely to die in prison than if they are free.

“Ironically, prisons are often the only provider of medical care accessible by these underserved and vulnerable Americans,” said Hung-En Sung of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.

“What’s very sad about this is that if we are able to all of a sudden equalize or diminish these health inequalities that you see by race inside a place like prison, it should also be that in places like a poor neighborhood we should be able to diminish these sort of inequities,” said Evelyn Patterson, who studies correctional facilities at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Vatican Blames Child Molestation Scandal On Woodstock | Death and Taxes
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This morning, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, published the findings of its four-year long, $2 million research project looking into the causes of the Catholic Church’s decade-long sex-abuse scandal. It’s important to note that this “research study” was conducted with data provided by the Church, and the study itself was mostly funded by the Church. Prepare for the kind of objectivity you’d find only in Fox News.

John Jay claims the sex scandal is only a temporary problem, due partly to the influx of poorly trained priests into seminaries. The rest of the blame goes onto the prevalence of “deviant behavior” like the sexual and drug experimentation during the 1960s and 70s, claiming that priests who entered the seminaries in the 80s were much less likely to commit acts of molestation. Free love and reefer cigarettes made countless priests commit sex crimes—that totally makes sense, right?

#religion #christianisme #pédophilie