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What It Really Feels Like When You Call Someone, or Their Food, ‘Exotic’
It’s the backhanded compliment that’s inherently racist. Here’s why we need to start re-examining how, when and why we use the term exotic.
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Watch Celebrities Read Picture Books by Black Authors
Parents often use books as a way to introduce and spark conversations around important topics, concepts or themes with their kids. Using books in this way is particularly important now, as the country grapples with so many social justice issues. That’s why Netflix says it has created a new live-action show, Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices, featuring…
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What Do You Want To Hear From White Allies?
Right now is an incredibly difficult and emotional time in our nation and around the world. The countless deaths of black people at the hands of the police and others is a constant reminder of just how far we have to go as a society, in seeing everyone as equal and worthy of the same…
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Kids Are Not Racially ‘Colourblind’
The idea of “colourblindness” when it comes to race is certainly not a new idea. You’ve surely heard it; you might have thought it; maybe you’ve even said it: “Oh, I don’t see colour; I only see the person.” Especially when it comes to kids, we have a desire to see them as innocent—which they…