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In the words of fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto: ‘Above all black says this: I don’t bother you – don’t bother me!’
This year marks the 150th birthday of Colorado and is a chance to examine the state’s history.
Popular memes debating Harris’ racial authenticity say less about the US’s first Black and Indian vice president and more about Americans’ complex cultural conversations.
The scariest thing about a black cat may be the way superstition and tradition shape people’s perceptions and prejudices about animals based solely on their color.
Black women who are more frequently exposed to racism showed stronger connections in areas of the brain involved in rumination and heightened vigilance, both of which lead to faster biological aging.
The release of ‘American Fiction’ presents an opportunity to talk about race, power and white supremacy: What version of Blackness is acceptable or saleable within American culture?
In this episode, Vinita sits down with two experts to break down the many layers — and Black stereotypes — in the much anticipated new film, ‘American Fiction.’
Acronyms like BIPOC can highlight the similar ways racism impacts different people. However, they can also gloss over the distinct experiences of communities.
This year, there are more than 400 active anti-trans bills across the U.S. What do things look like in Canada? Are we a safe haven or are we following those same trends?
New research found that Black and Hispanic people tended to give banks a pass for poor customer service.
The lack of visibility by Black researchers and physicians in scientific literature perpetuates systemic racism in medicine.
While all groups experienced increased housing vulnerability after the pandemic hit, only people of Asian descent continued to see their situations worsen in 2021 as the US spent trillions trying to soften the impact.
Many comics are now more representative of the people who actually read them but it’s clear there’s room for more diversity when it comes to our superheroes.
Disney’s new Black mermaid has been called ‘inauthentic’ – but fairy tales have always been repurposed across cultures. And Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Mermaid was different from Disney’s.
In the middle of the tremendous outpouring of love and grief for the Queen and the monarchy she represented, not everyone wants to take a moment of silence. And there are a lot of reasons why.
Students of color graduate at higher rates when they go to colleges where there are larger portions of the student body and faculty who are also of color.
The Brown v. Board of Education case, which resulted in the Supreme Court outlawing school segregation, originally started in Clarendon County, South Carolina.
Students with disabilities do better when they remain in general education classes, but systemic bias often leads them to be placed in separate classrooms, a special education researcher writes.
People may be more willing to boycott a retailer over an act of injustice that takes place at the store if the source of the story was Black – even if the incident happened to a white person.
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Associate Dean (Arts and Humanities), Bucknell University
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Canada Research Chair, Professor in Performance, Toronto Metropolitan University
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President, Food Secure Canada
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia
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Professor Emerita of Marketing, Menlo College
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Associate Professor of Critical Race Theory and Women and Health, Carleton University
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Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Black Health Lead, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
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PhD Candidate, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University
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Associate Professor of Special Education, Penn State
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Mary Louise Petersen Chair in Higher Education, University of Iowa
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Assistant Professor of Humanities, McMaster University
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Associate Professor of Marketing, Babson College
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Research Assistant Professor NYU Langone Health, Grossman School of Medicine, Department of Neurology, Oakland University
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Wayne State University
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James J. Stansell Associate Professor of Classics and Humanities, San Diego State University