22 January 2016

All-Female Activist Berklee Band Raising Money For Concept Album About Fighting Oppression

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All-Female Activist Band Flight of Fire, From Berklee College of Music
(PRNewsFoto/Flight of Fire)
Flight of Fire's third album will center on themes of trauma recovery and fighting back against abuse, complete with an a-list team of industry professionals
Flight of Fire an all-female, Berklee College of Music-educated band that was formed in 2009.  Flight of Fire were named New England Music Awards' "Last Band Standing" Boston Finalists in November 2015, Hard Rock Rising Boston City-Wide Champions in April 2015, and were Winners of the 2013 Fox Rocks Bon Jovi Contest to Open For Bon Jovi At Ford Field, Detroit
Flight of Fire founded The Stolen Voices Project, a multimedia awareness project about acquaintance rape, filmed at Berklee, with 56 singers and performers from 7 Bostonarea schools as well as Boston community members. 
The project seeks to illuminate the issues surrounding acquaintance rape and consent and was created in cooperation with the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center and Hollaback Boston.

20 January 2016

Knopf To Publish Book By Journalist Nancy Jo Sales About Teenage Girls And Social Media

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Knopf to Publish Book by Journalist Nancy Jo Sales about Teenage Girls and Social Media
Next month Knopf will release a new book about social media and its impact on the lives of today's youth. Written by Nancy Jo Sales, and based on reporting she has done over the past 30 months, AMERICAN GIRLS: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers, will go on sale February 23 with a first printing of 150,000 copies. It will also be available as an eBook and from Random House Audio. First serial rights have been sold to Time Magazine.

17 January 2016

Jason Rezaian Released From Iranian Prison After 544 Days

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Jason Rezaian Released From Iranian Prison After 544 Days (PRNewsFoto/National Press Club)
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Members of the National Press Club and journalist around the world are overjoyed at the news our colleague Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian who has been in prison for 544 days for simply doing his job has been released, and will now be reunited with his family and friends.

14 January 2016

Canada's History Marks The 100th Anniversary Of Women's Suffrage

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Canada's Great Women (CNW Group/Canada's History)
Canada's History Society marks the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage with special editions of Canada's History and Kayak: Canada's History Magazine for Kids.
For Canada's History, a special panel – including former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson and bestselling author Charlotte Gray – selected "20 Great Women" from Canada's political, business, artistic, and activist history.

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