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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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Asian American students have a target on their backs thanks to critical race theory
I've been joining a group of parents in Fairfax County, Virginia, on Zoom to discuss our mounting concern over the rising vilification of Asian Americans in the area. But if you think we are worried about nativist hate groups or white supremacist organizations, guess again. The perpetrators in this drama are none other than the very school officials we have entrusted with our children’s education and well-being.
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The evil within us: How Christian fascist ideology led to the Atlanta killings
Robert Aaron Long, 21, charged with murdering eight victims, six of whom were Asian women, at three Atlanta-area massage parlors, told police that he carried out the killings to eliminate the temptations that fed his sexual addiction. His church, Crabapple First Baptist Church, in Milton, Georgia, which opposes sex outside of marriage, issued a statement condemning the shootings as "unacceptable and contrary to the gospel."
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Asian women say shootings point to relentless, racist tropes
For Christine Liwag Dixon and others, the bloodshed in Georgia — six Asian women among the dead, allegedly killed by a man who blamed his “sexual addiction” — was a new and horrible chapter in the shameful history of Asian women being reduced to sex objects.
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Dr. Seuss books – to cancel or not to cancel?
It is right to rethink old literature. But does cancel culture amount to book burnings? Sooner or later, everybody gets cancelled, but I could not imagine why anybody would pick on Dr. Seuss, a childhood favorite of mine.
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Uproar at KCRW as former producer accuses public radio giant of 'blatant racism'
Former producer Cerise Castle claims she experienced a pattern of racist behavior while working at KCRW. The station disputes some of her allegations.
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Sacha Baron Cohen: 'If you’re protesting against racism, you’re going to upset some racists'
Seven months ago, Sacha Baron Cohen was in the back of a speeding ambulance. It was an escape car, and he was fleeing a gun rally. The Borat producers had chosen the ambulance as it could blend in, accommodate a small film crew and, if necessary, hasten a trip to hospital.
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Charges dropped against woman who called police on Black birdwatcher
Amy Cooper completes therapy involving racial bias instruction. Video of encounter in New York’s Central Park went viral in 2020.
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The year of Karen: how a meme changed the way Americans talked about racism
There was no direct connection between the “Central Park Karen” incident in New York City and the police killing of 46-year-old George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, beyond the coincidence of timing. Time in the pandemic has been elastic and confusing, and reports of the separate incidents did not emerge immediately, but the two events occurred on Monday 25 May, Memorial Day.
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A Racial Slur, a Viral Video, and a Reckoning
President Donald Trump appeared no closer to signing an end-of-year COVID relief and spending bill Sunday as unemployment aid expired, the government barrels toward a mid-pandemic shutdown and lawmakers implored him to break the impasse he created after Congress approved the deal.
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Black children are 6 times more likely to be shot to death by police, study finds
Black children were six times more likely to be shot to death by the police than their White peers over a 16-year period, according to a study published in the journal Pediatrics that offers support for a disparity long-highlighted by activists. Hispanic children were three times more likely to be shot to death than White children, the study found.
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Racism is rampant on Omegle. Teens are working to hold racist trolls accountable.
Earlier this month, Hidaya Saban and Alees Elshiek opened the video chat website Omegle for what they described as a social experiment. Omegle, which has been around for approximately a decade, allows users to be paired with strangers in a video chat at random — although Saban, 19, and Elshiek, 18, said they entered the college student section of the site where they were able to pick certain topic tags in order to be paired with those who have similar interests.
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'Warrior's most epic episode takes on America's racist history
“Enter the Dragon,” which premiered on Cinemax on November 27 (the 80th birthday of series creator Bruce Lee), was the biggest episode of Warrior yet with an eruption of violence in Chinatown. With lines drawn between the Tongs (the Chinese immigrant gangs who ruled San Francisco’s Chinatown) and jobless Irish-American laborers, Warrior ignites street warfare unlike anything seen in American television.
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Uber's 'racially biased' ratings system hurts nonwhite drivers, lawsuit says
"Throughout its history, Uber has made firing decisions based on a system that it knows is poisoned with racial discrimination," says attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan.
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