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The Killings Of Black Men Are More Likely To Be Labelled ‘Justifiable’

How a quirk of legalese placed millions of black Americans in jeopardy. by Tasbeeh Herwees

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Trump’s Transgender Ban Is Just Bad Strategy

The U.S. military can be a quietly progressive institution — and we need all the able-bodied fighters we can get. by Rebekah Sager

This Black Lives Matter Founder Still Has Hope For America If we want to heal, Patrisse Cullors says we can start by believing people of color when they say the system is designed to destroy them But after Charlottesville, there are no more excuses for not getting involved.

Communities

Liz Dwyer
80% Of America's Teachers Are White It’s not just students of color who benefit from a diverse teaching force In an ideal world, a teacher’s race shouldn’t matter. But this is not an ideal world.

Education

Liz Dwyer
I Walked Past A Confederate Monument For 15 Years And Never Noticed Los Angeles may be a bastion of bleeding-heart liberalism — but it also burned twice after brutally racist acts The discovery of the memorial in Hollywood Forever Cemetery proves there really is no racial nirvana.

Communities

Liz Dwyer

A Gold Medal Olympian Says That Youth Athletes Need To Hear Our Voices She was the first gymnast to stand up against USA Gymnastics for inappropriate behavior. ”Most parents are good and well-meaning, but they have no clue.”

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Kristin Marguerite Doidge
It’s Been Three Years Since Michael Brown Died. A New Film Demands Justice Documentarians Damon Davis and Sabaah Folayan make a powerful plea for action in ‘Whose Streets?’ “White people haven't rearranged how they think about us.”

Culture

Tasbeeh Herwees
Affirmative Action Has Been Under Fire For 40 Years. Here's Why Diversity Always Wins “We can't be a prosperous democracy and leave the growing talent pool on the sidelines” Regression is a losing strategy.

Education

Joseph Williams

Early 2000s Tabloid Gossip Gets The Museum Treatment A 19-year-old’s ode to the Ugg years celebrates a time when our dumb president couldn’t tweet — and it was still possible to shock America A love letter to a trashier — and more innocent — age.

Culture

Tasbeeh Herwees
Millions Of Women Face Astonishing Pain When They Have Sex. Why Don’t Their Doctors Take Them Seriously? A writer ventures out of his “male bubble” to find a medical jungle crowded with toxic treatments, false diagnoses, and shame A writer ventures out of his “male bubble” to find a medical jungle crowded with toxic treatments, false diagnoses, and shame.

Health

Maxwell Williams
What It’s Like Being A Latino Muslim In America “We are optimistic, and this is an opportunity to let people know who we are.”

Communities

Rebekah Sager

Beirut Is Blocking Its World Famous Beaches From The People Who Actually Live There How activists in Lebanon are trying to reclaim public beaches for everyday citizens Private development is diminishing public space.

The Planet

Abby Sewell
If Football Is Deadly, Why Do We Still Watch? New research finds brain trauma in 87% of players.

Sports

John Affleck
I’m A Dyslexic Educator. I Teach Other Teachers How To Help Kids Like Me Learn When I was diagnosed at age 6, my mother asked, ‘Is it contagious?’ When I was diagnosed at age 6, my mother asked, “Is it contagious?”

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James Gentry

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