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International Women's Day 2021, Rosa and the Paris Commune at 150, Vijay Prashad on the farmers' uprising, and more!

Pundits up in arms about removing offensive tropes from his books forget this is part of a long tradition, from Mary Poppins to Nancy Drew.

Within a month of the regulatory approval being granted to the first three vaccines, advanced countries, accounting for only 14% of the world’s population, had placed orders for around 85% of the estimated entire production for 2021

it’s clear that agriculture’s environmental impacts need to shrink in order to protect the natural environment.

Before he became a symbol in the fight for racial justice, friends say Floyd was a ‘gentle giant’ who sought a fresh start

"The government's increasingly brutal counter-insurgency campaign... no longer makes any distinction between armed rebels and non-combatant activists, labor leaders, and rights defenders."

The social media harassment of Kelly Marie Tran was abominable, but it’s not fair to say that racism is baked into the epic franchise’s core

It's taken almost 90 years - but Disney's first South East Asian heroine premiered on Thursday. This begs the question - what exactly is a South East Asian identity and can Disney's latest heroine really embody it?

Why media ignore Africa, how Cuomo kept his image up, and more reports

“Every single metric of voter access that has been a good in Georgia is now under attack,” says Stacey Abrams.