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A school in Utah has been criticized this week for allowing its students to opt-out of Black History Month during February. According to NBC News, the controversy began when Micah Hirokawa, director of the Maria Montessori Academy in Ogden, Utah, took to the school’s official Facebook page on Friday, February…
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A Tennessee high school principal has apologized for marking Black History Month with an All Lives Matter theme. CNN reports that the East Ridge Middle School teacher in Chatanooga made the controversial announcement in a weekly newsletter issued on Sunday, January 31. The move was met with a significant backlash…
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There has been a historic lack of representation of people of color in the film industry. Deadline reports that of the 1,200 top films from 2007 to 2018, just 27 featured leading or co-leading characters from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups. However, while the industry clearly has a long way…
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A Black attorney whose mother was unfairly imprisoned for drug addiction has opened up about her fight against mass incarceration. Brittany K. Barnett, an attorney and criminal justice reform advocate from Texas, has opened up about her journey tackling racism within the American justice system in her memoir A Knock…
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Social media has given people from every background a platform to affect a real and positive change in the world. Two people who are doing this spectacularly are Court and Lex, a Black and lesbian couple who have amassed a considerable following on Instagram and TikTok. Court and Lex share…
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A survey of Ethnic Representation in UK Children's Books in July 2018 revealed a startling problem: Only 1% feature a main character who is Black or from an ethnic minority. The issue doesn't just concern main characters, either, and of the 9,115 children's books published in the UK in 2017,…
