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For years, Japan tried to keep their existence a secret. But the Ainu people refuse to disappear
Japan's Ainu people have their own history, languages and culture. But, as the victims of colonialism, assimilation and discrimination, much of that identity has been lost. This is the story of their fight to be recognised.
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Large brawl in Alabama as people defend Black riverboat worker against white assailants
Fight appeared to start when a worker objected to a pontoon boat preventing a larger river boat from docking, and was attacked by a group of white men
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‘Denying our humanity’: how Santa Monica decimated a thriving Black community
African Americans helped build the iconic beach town, historian Alison Rose Jefferson details as California weighs reparations
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Connecticut State Troopers Apparently Tried To Bury Biased Stop Data By Falsifying 26,000 Traffic Tickets
Biased policing is just the way things are done. Decades of targeting minorities for being minorities has resulted in tons of garbage data now being used to justify “smarter” policing g…
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Civil rights groups warn tourists about Florida in wake of 'hostile' laws
The NAACP over the weekend issued a travel advisory for Florida, joining two other civil rights groups in warning potential tourists that recent laws and policies championed by Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida lawmakers are “openly hostile toward African Americans, people of color and LGBTQ+ individuals.”
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An Inglewood charter school looks to literacy to build success among its Black students
Wilder’s Preparatory Academy in Inglewood boasts test score results that reflect performance far above that of the state average for all schools regardless of racial composition.
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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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