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Sensitivity readers: what publishing’s most polarising role is really about
The Roald Dahl alterations thrust sensitivity readers to the foreground, but the profession is nothing new
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America has a history problem. Meanwhile, Australia still has a problem with truth
The Statue of Liberty offers a haven to the tired, poor and huddled masses yearning to be free. What greater dream could there be? Yet liberty is in the eye of the beholder, it depends on who we are, writes Stan Grant.
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Antisemitic celebrities stoke fears of normalizing hate
A surge of anti-Jewish vitriol, spread by a world-famous rapper, an NBA star and other prominent people, is stoking fears that public figures are normalizing hate and ramping up the risk of violence in a country already experiencing a sharp increase in antisemitism.
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Redefining ‘flesh-colored’ bandages makes medicine more inclusive
Peach-colored bandages label dark-skinned patients as outside the norm, says med student Linda Oyesiku. Brown bandages expand who gets to be normal.
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Florida Continues Attack On Education After Rejecting 54 Math Textbooks Due To 'CRT'
The Florida Department of Education rejected 41% of submitted textbooks over "attempts to indoctrinate children." The textbooks taught math.
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Copyright Is Indispensable For Artists, They Say; But For All Artists, Or Just Certain Kinds?
One of the central “justifications” for copyright is that it is indispensable if creativity is to be viable. Without it, we are assured, artists would starve. This ignores the fact that artists cre…
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Ignorance of history may partly explain why Republicans perceive less racism than Democrats
Ignorance of U.S. history might help explain why White Republicans tend to perceive less racism than White Democrats, according to new research published in the scientific journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.
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Attempted Aboriginal massacres took place as recently as 1981, historian says
Alice Springs mass poisoning claimed two lives and left many in hospital but details are scarce, showing challenges of verifying frontier killings
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John Oliver Returns to Expertly Debunk the Right-Wing Panic Over ‘Critical Race Theory’
The comic kicked off the new season of ‘Last Week Tonight’ with a bang: breaking down exactly how the right-wing’s war on CRT is a load of bull.
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I'm Black But Look White. Here Are The Horrible Things White People Feel Safe Telling Me.
"Many of these people are educated, and hold jobs or positions that give them some form of power or influence over Black people."
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Black, But Not White, Families Talked More About Race After The Murder of George Floyd
Conversations about race can be seriously beneficial to children. Research has highlighted multiple positive outcomes for young people of all backgrounds — enhanced ability to accept different viewpoints and perspectives, increased levels of empathy, a better understanding of their own identity, and less racial bias to name but a few. Yet some parents are still unwilling to take the time to have such conversations.
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Southlake, Texas, schools restrict classroom libraries after backlash over anti-racist book
Teachers in the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, protested a new policy restricting books in classroom libraries.
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Family speaks out about racism after people throw garbage at grandmothers and kids in Surrey park
Family members of those targeted with racist comments are questioning how the RCMP handled the incident.
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Residential schools policy closely linked to missing and murdered Indigenous women
The continuing cycle of intergenerational trauma has devastating consequences for Indigenous girls and women.
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Jean Yoon Said Working On "Kim's Convenience" Was "Painful" And That Some Of The Original Season 5 Storylines Were "Overtly Racist"
"I'm sick of holding this back."
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Asian Americans are patrolling streets across the US to keep their elders safe
Carl Chan was walking in Oakland's Chinatown on his way to meet an Asian elder who had been attacked when a stranger called him a racial slur and hit him on the head. "I am so fortunate to be able to live another day to tell my story," Chan told CNN.
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Rooting out racism in children's books
Ten years ago, I sat down with my then 8-year-old daughter to read a book before bedtime. The book was sort of a modern-day “boy who cried wolf” story, only it was about a little girl named Lucy who had a bad habit of telling lies.
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Golden Globes: HFPA Apologizes for Ex-President's Email Calling BLM "Racist Hate Movement"
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organization of LA-based journalists for outlets based abroad which hosts the annual Golden Globe Awards, just keeps digging the hole it is in even deeper.
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A beach town seized a Black couple’s land in the 1920s. Now their family could get it back
Los Angeles officials have announced an effort to return the valuable Manhattan Beach property to the descendants of Willa and Charles Bruce
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A Black Army Rises to Fight the Racist Right
A man calling himself Grandmaster Jay has raised a disciplined, heavily armed militia. It has yet to fire a shot at its enemies, but it’s prepared for war.
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