Art featuring the slain Rio politician Marielle Franco, whose 2018 murder remains unsolved.
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The 2018 murder of Rio city councilwoman Marielle Franco inspired record numbers of Black women to get involved in politics. Winning proved harder – but it isn’t the only point of their campaigns.
Derby County’s Tom Huddlestone and Swansea City’s Yan Dhanda (right) battle for the ball at Pride Park, Derby, in August, 2019.
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British football should utilise 30 years of academic research to focus on what it needs to do to solve the game’s exclusion problem.
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Witnessing their children’s experiences of racism was particularly difficult, parents reported.
President-elect Biden promises a new White House agenda and style.
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Scholars of race, foreign policy and the Supreme Court give their informed predictions of what to expect under a Biden administration.
Is it a lovely autumn day, or is America burning to the ground?
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Mexican philosophers have a word for the peculiar anxiety you may be feeling: ‘zozobra,’ a dizziness that arises from social disintegration.
The American suburban population has increased dramatically in the last few decades.
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Suburbs are more racially and economically diverse than ever, making them key battlegrounds for the election.
Boxes of illegal and legal vote-by-mail ballots at the Miami-Dade County Elections Department ahead of Florida’s Aug. 18 primary election.
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In Florida and North Carolina, mail ballots cast by minority voters and Democrats are disproportionately likely to face rejection.
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Decolonising medicine will create a fairer healthcare system for all.
Taking a peek, but probably not seeing a future career.
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At age 7, Black, white and Hispanic children have a similar opinion of the police. But this increasingly turns negative by the time they are teenagers, especially for nonwhite teens.
They’re not just honest or ignorant mistakes, and they can poison an otherwise pleasant interaction.
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White people are often defensive when they’re called out for these subtle snubs and insults. But researchers have found that microaggressions correlate with racial bias.
The coming-of-age French indie film ‘Cuties’ sparked a backlash because of a poster that went viral.
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The outrage over the teen film ‘Cuties’ diverts attention from the social structures that enforce conflicting expectations on young women.
Democratic vice-presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris speaks at the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 19 in Delaware. Why wasn’t she the presidential nominee? Strategic discrimination by primary voters may explain.
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Why are women and people of colour under-represented in politics? Part of the problem is strategic discrimination, or concern about other people’s biases.
Dance troupe Diversity’s Black Lives Matter performance has received a lot of complaints.
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Complaints stated that family shows like Britain’s Got Talent shouldn’t be political. However, the problem is much more complex and sinister than simple politics
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Rocks exposes the realities of social care, where children feel left out of decisions that shape their lives.
Sage burning as a spiritual cleansing ritual is common at Black Lives Matter protests.
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BLM has been accused of being ‘Godless’ and operating in a ‘demonic realm.’ But scholars of religion see a deep spirituality at work in the movement.
Can a college course help students understand people of different races?
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Many Americans want to become more open to people of other races but don’t know how. A professor in Colorado shares what works in her sociology class.
At the turn of the 20th century, marriage was assumed to be an exercise in mutual misery.
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Concerned about the state of marriage – and thus the ability of whites to procreate – eugenicists were behind some of the earliest modern marriage manuals.
School students participate in a national quiz in South Africa.
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Students feel a generational responsibility to challenge racial stereotypes, a study finds.
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Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s song has cause an uproar for its explicit expression of female sexuality.
Black and Latino essential workers are more likely to experience food, child care and housing insecurities than their white co-workers, in addition to safety concerns.
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Stress and physical conditions make essential work unsafe, especially for Black and Latino employees.