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According to the nonprofit Love is Respect, one in three teens experiences dating violence. In honor of Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month, Love Is Respect holds a campaign to encourage those dedicated to ending domestic violence to show it by wearing orange every year on Feb. 12. Here’s teen advocate Shayla Rodriguez, age…

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Everything Nic Stone and Angie Thomas said at their Charis Books-sponsored conversation at Friends School of Atlanta in Decatur on February 9 was something I needed to hear. From talking about how if a black girl sells drugs she gets thrown in jail versus her white counterparts who “would get a slap on the wrist for…

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The four-time Tony nominated musical “Waitress” follows the tumultuous and tragic marriage of Jenna and Earl and her extreme talent for … pies? Based on the 2007 film by Adrianne Shelly, Jenna yearns to “bake herself a new life” after finding out she is pregnant. But Jenna has her friends and fellow waitresses Dawn and…

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