Racism
The Little Mermaid: Has Disney sanitised our expectations from fairytales?
Thanks to 2023's The Little Mermaid, Black and brown girls can finally see themselves as princesses in a film where the protagonist's skin colour is not as instrumental to the story as the princesses' heritage was in Aladdin, Mulan, and The Princess and the Frog.
Reverse racism isn’t real. Here’s why.
We need to distinguish between racial prejudices and structural racism.
The Little Mermaid: Has Disney sanitised our expectations from fairytales?
Thanks to 2023's The Little Mermaid, Black and brown girls can finally see themselves as princesses in a film where the protagonist's skin colour is not as instrumental to the story as the princesses' heritage was in Aladdin, Mulan, and The Princess and the Frog.
Matthew Salesses demystifies the craft of writing
Storytelling is a space in which, as writers and readers, we experience the ways of how we know the world and interact with it.
My terrible #Blackout Tuesday experience
Turns out I gravely misread the channeling of the outrage.
A story about loving, in black and white
You see, Mildred Jeter was black, while her husband, Richard Loving (yes, that is his real name) was white. In the 1950s, Virginia was one of 24 states whose anti-miscegenation laws made interracial marriage a felony. The Lovings were charged with “cohabiting as man and wife, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth.”
[WATCH] The most 'racist' ad ever?
A black man and a young Chinese woman are flirting, as he leans in for a kiss she thrusts a detergent capsule in his
Ugly clashes at anti-Islam rallies in Australia
Ten Australians have been arrested in nationwide protests involving both anti-Islam and anti-racism groups.
Apple apologises after racism outcry
Apple apologises to six schoolboys asked to leave one of their shops in Australia, in what the students described as a racist incident.
Bill to ban Confederate flag passes
South Carolina's Senate passes a bill to remove the Confederate flag from the state capitol in Columbia.
Google apologises for racist blunder
Google says it is "appalled" that its new Photos app mistakenly labelled a black couple as being "gorillas".