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Diversifying emojis
Apple’s devices now offer users more diversity when it comes to skin tone options and ethnicity on the range of emojis for use in messaging.
150 Years Later, A Formal Apology For The Sand Creek Massacre/NPR
“This wasn’t just an event in history; it wasn’t something that just happened and is over. The things that could bring about an atrocity of this magnitude — those were human things, and that potential is still in people.
The Sign Language that African Americans Use is Different from That of Whites
Thanksgiving in Britain!
This holiday season, Americans aren’t the only ones celebrating Thanksgiving. This holiday – and it’s notorious shopping frenzy – is traveling to other nations, too.
Hair today, gone tomorrow
Carol’s Daughter – a brand that specializes in products for black women – has been bought over by multi-million dollar cosmetic giant L’Oreal. What does this mean for the kinds of products that it is famous for?
App accused of being racist
Neighborhood crowdsourcing app SketchFactor is accused by some of being racist. Find out more and watch the app’s developers respond to these complaints.
Revamping Classic Superheroes
Some of Marvel comics’ most beloved superheroes are undergoing a radical transformation.
Captain America will be African-American. And Thor will be a woman. But is that a good thing, or plain old sexism yet again?
Gender-discriminatory dress codes
U.S. schoolgirls are subject to stringent dress codes so that their outfits “do not distract boys.”
Gender discrimination? Watch the video and see what you think.
Scarring & Cultural Identity
Explore the fascinating tradition of scarification, and its ties to cultural heritage and ancestry among the Houeda ethnic group in Benin (north-west Africa)
WARNING: Some images may be considered graphic / disturbing
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