This approach to period pieces does not only erase historical racism and homophobia. It also erases our joy. Accurate historical representation and less trauma in stories about marginalized people are not opposing goals.
Rethinking Israel, Jewish identity and antisemitism
International team of researchers has uncovered the incredible genetic diversity hidden within the ancient remains of those who once called Machu Picchu home.
While the extinction affected some flower species, most lineages survived and the catastrophe may have helped them become a dominant form of plant life.
Reader Comments: Supreme Court: Return to Separate and UnEqual; Child Labor; Remembering Pat Fry; Museums that Remember Slavery; Culture Wars Against Education Archive; Ending Climate and Nuclear Crises; lots of Announcements; Cartoons; more....
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The Supreme Court ruled race-based college admissions are unlawful, ending affirmative action programs at colleges. In her dissent, Supreme Court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson pulled no punches calling the ruling “let-them-eat-cake obliviousness.”
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The proposal was inspired by a pilot program in San Francisco that has increased the racial and economic diversity of the county’s jury pools by providing $100 daily payments to low- and moderate-income jurors.
US regulatory agency makes ‘big change’ to increase the number of participants from under-represented groups in drug testing.
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