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You’d think they’d learn. The Young Republicans had a signal chat where they thought everything was confidential among themselves, so they indulged themselves in profanity, misogyny, an…| Pharyngula
A speech by New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani — and the conservative reaction to it — highlight how Muslim women are specifically targeted during times of heightened Islamophobia or anti-Arab sentiment. “I want to speak to the memory of my aunt who stopped taking the subway after September 11 because she did not feel safe […]| The 19th
When Kendra Sullivan woke up on Wednesday, the 43-year-old West Virginian was surprised to see that she’d gone viral overnight — in a good way. The night before, more than 40,000 people had joined YouTube for a what’s-next meeting following the 2,700 “No Kings” pro-democracy demonstrations on Saturday attended by as many as 7 million […]| The 19th
A recent federal case shows how a workplace investigation can flip fast—from harassment complaint to defamation claim. The employer followed the playbook and won. The accuser did not. TL;DR: A federal court in Ohio threw out a former Chief Legal Officer’s race discrimination, retaliation, and contract claims after he was fired following a harassment investigation. […]| The Employer Handbook Blog
A performer claimed a venue “canceled” them after backlash to a social-media post supporting Israel.They said it was discrimination. The court said it was politics. TL;DR: A federal court dismissed a discrimination case under Section 1981, a law that prohibits race discrimination in contracts. The performer claimed a Northern California venue canceled a Hanukkah concert […]| The Employer Handbook Blog
What if a Black employee uses the N-word in the workplace, directed at no one in particular, and gets fired? Can that employee claim race discrimination under Title VII? A federal judge in Pennsylvania just called that argument “an absurdity.” TL;DR: A Black employee fired for using the N-word claimed race discrimination, arguing that his […]| The Employer Handbook Blog
When the agency that enforces the nation’s anti-discrimination laws ends up defending one of its own under Title VII, that is not just newsworthy. It is a lesson for every employer about how bias, inconsistency, and poor process can sneak into even the most compliance-minded workplaces. TL;DR: A federal judge refused to dismiss a Title […]| The Employer Handbook Blog
My previous experience of David Garnett extended to one book, but what a book! namely his 1922 novella Lady into Fox. Surely no other work of his could measure up, but we had The Sailor’s Return in the library and I was keen to try it. It’s June 1858, and William Targett has returned to … … Continue reading →| Somewhere Boy
Two Iridium® employees are going from satellites to sand dunes as they prepare for the 2024 Rebelle Rally. The first women’s off-road navigation rally in the United ...| Iridium Satellite Communications
Taxpayers should not foot the bill of an equal pay litigation unit. Daniel Dieppe in The Critic Magazine.| Civitas: Institute for the Study of Civil Society
For most parents, a call from the school is an inconvenience. But for the parent of a Black child in the UK, it can be the start of a nightmare – one that ends with the closing of the school gates for good. We have been taught to see school exclusion as a disciplinary tool … Continue reading Five things the Runnymede Trust History on Loop Report Reveals about the Crisis of School Exclusions for Black Children in UK Schools→| tenpencemore
Woke language is used to browbeat ordinary people into submission, but research shows that it’s achieving the precise opposite The post Why woke doesn’t work appeared first on The Spectator World.| The Spectator World
Two things were obvious at Wednesday morning’s Supreme Court argument in Louisiana v. Callais, a case asking the Court to abolish longstanding safeguards against racially gerrymandered legislative maps. The first thing is that the Court will split along party lines, with all six Republicans voting to destroy the federal Voting Rights Act’s (VRA) restrictions on […]| Vox
On Oct. 2, the Humanities Studio hosted Nina Sun Eidsheim to speak on her latest book and research regarding sound and the work of musician and composer Wadada Leo Smith. The talk was titled, “Nina Sun Eidsheim on the Sounds, Art, & Philosophy of Wadada Leo Smith.” The post Humanities studio presents Nina Eidsheim on the sounds, art and philosophy of Wadada Leo Smith appeared first on The Student Life.| The Student Life
You’d think they’d learn. The Young Republicans had a signal chat where they thought everything was confidential among themselves, so they indulged themselves in profanity, misogyny, an…| Pharyngula
Palestinian journalists around the world say the Israeli military's targeting of journalists in Gaza—and Western media’s silence—has led them to think differently about their colleagues and their roles within the industry| Prism
Weeks after President Donald Trump took to social media to instruct the nation’s chief law enforcement officer to take legal action against his political enemies, New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted by a grand jury in Virginia on Thursday. The move comes one day after former FBI Director James Comey pleaded not guilty […]| The 19th
A recent Fourth Circuit decision shows how strong documentation can make or break a retaliation case. TL;DR: An employee claimed that her employer retaliated after she raised race concerns. The Fourth Circuit affirmed summary judgment for the employer because contemporaneous records showed performance issues and leadership misalignment that began well before the protected activity. Timing alone […]| The Employer Handbook Blog
When a White Jewish university employee claimed discipline for racially charged remarks amounted to discrimination, the court disagreed. It called the case something else entirely, and in doing so, it drew an important boundary for every employer. TL;DR: A federal court just clarified a point that often gets blurred when discipline involves speech: anti-discrimination laws protect […]| The Employer Handbook Blog
What happens when mandatory workplace trainings designed to address bias and promote equity go too far? According to the Second Circuit, employers may find themselves defending against hostile work environment claims. TL;DR: The Second Circuit revived a former school administrator’s hostile work environment claim under § 1983. She alleged that implicit bias trainings and spillover […]| The Employer Handbook Blog
I hadn’t listened to this report on his history yet. Yeesh. He is and always been deeply racist — we’re talking cartoonish levels of racism. Just a repulsive shithouse pit of ugly…| Pharyngula
The letter gives Stanford 14 days to comply with its orders or “face potential loss of federal funding.”| The Stanford Daily
Rawls believes that a just society must be a pluralistic society, and that means that it must be neutral across (reasonable) comprehensive conceptions of the good. Citizens must be enabled to pursue their own comprehensive conceptions without interference from the state. Does this imply that a comprehensive conception based on the idea of ethnic or … Continue reading "Confronting race through Rawls’s political philosophy"| Understanding Society
MLK, Rousseau, Rawls (Gemini) A prior post asked whether liberal political philosophy can be “anti-racist”. Charles Mills addresses a related question in much more radical terms. He off…| Understanding Society
Buddhist teachers honor the life of Reverend Dr. Larry Ward.| Tricycle: The Buddhist Review
Charlie Kirk’s assassination is a national tragedy, an unmistakable symptom of civic decay. Kirk’s murder deserves clear condemnation. But condemnation need not include canonization. Kirk’s shock-j…| Footnotes2Plato
About 35 in every 100,000 people live with sarcoidosis in the U.S., and most are located near urban areas on the East Coast, a study reports.| Sarcoidosis News
Laura Marti – September 25, 2025 I can’t remember when I first heard the terms “environmental racism” and “environmental justice,” but it was as an adult and within the last decade. Generally, the idea of “environmentalism” makes me think of conservation, climate change, or protecting endangered species. Go back another decade or so and I would […] The post Toxic Legacies: How Environmental Racism Took Root—and What We Can Do Now appeared first on Brownicity.| Brownicity
A new book takes on the quick rise—and the inequities—of paying health costs through sites like GoFundMe.| Mother Jones
Lisa of ANZ Lit Lovers is hosting Short Story September this year, and it fits beautifully with the upcoming Novellas in November, hosted by Rebecca and Cathy, and the new challenge I’m hosting this year, Doorstoppers in December. Lisa has prompted us to focus on one story from each collection we review, but I’m also giving … Continue reading #ShortStorySeptember: Graham Swift & Leone Ross| Laura Tisdall
After decades of discriminating against Black farmers and ignoring their complaints, the USDA is promising to do better. Again.| Mother Jones
Lawmakers this year proposed 137 bills restricting lessons and training about racism and gender identity, a 250 percent increase since 2021.| Education Week
Can we understand the dynamics of far-right extremism without understanding far-right extremists? Probably not; it seems clear we need to have a much more “micro” understanding of the actors than we currently have if we are to understand these movements so antithetical to the values of liberal democracy. And yet there isn’t much of a … Continue reading "Ethnography of the far right"| Understanding Society
John Rawls and Philip Pettit agree about the idea that a liberal democracy depends on the idea that all citizens have equal liberties, rights, worth, and dignity. Therefore they also agree that social and legal arrangements that are incompatible with equal rights, equal liberties, and equal dignity are illegitimate. They disagree in some details about … Continue reading "Can liberal political philosophy support anti-racism?"| Understanding Society
We might say that a political philosophy is a formulation of the normative ideals that the philosopher holds to be primary in implementing the moral and social facts of “assemblages of free i…| Understanding Society
This is not meant as a callout post, more an observation of the current state of race and class politics. If you’re my uncle Sam, hi! You are now an allegory...| Enbies are from Earth
I guess we aren’t done with Charlie Kirk. The talk show host, Jimmy Kimmel, made a few entirely accurate remarks that were mainly critical of Trump and the Right’s efforts to capitalize…| Pharyngula
The Sunsail/RYA all-female crew competing in the Prometheus 41s class at Cowes Week 2025An all-female crew at Cowes Week, organised in collaboration between Sunsail and the RYA, spotlighted the need for greater representation and leadership opportunities for women in sailing. For the first time, Sunsail and the RYA brought an all-female crew to Cowes Week 2025. “It’s a meaningful step,” …Continue reading » The post Sunsail and RYA bring all-female crew to Cowes Week appeared first on...| Yachting Monthly
While we run this race, we are commanded to have our eyes trained on a single place. We are to be looking to Jesus. Don’t Look There! I know what you’re thinking. “I’ve read…| Aliens and Pilgrims
New Book Describes How Systemic Racism Shapes Catholic Life Dr. Gerardo Marti – September 02, 2025 [Reposted with permission from Gerardo Marti’s Substack, “American Blindspot“] Tia Noelle Pratt’s new book Black and Catholic: Racism, Identity, and Religion is a careful and clarifying intervention into the study of race and religion in the United States. Smoothly written, it moves […]| Brownicity
Grace Chan’s debut, Every Version of You, one of my most anticipated 2025 releases, focuses on a couple, Malaysian-Chinese Tao-Yi and Taiwanese-Chinese Navin, who already spend most of their time in a virtual reality called Gaia. When technology advances and humans are now able to upload their selves into Gaia, leaving their physical bodies behind … Continue reading Digital sprites: Every Version of You by Grace Chan| Laura Tisdall
Campagne’s study offers a rich account of France’s wokisme debate through a Franco-American lens, though deeper analysis of anti-woke discourse meaning is lacking.| E-International Relations
Fatou Tamba's removal from the UK was cancelled last week, but now she faces being deported next week - as her health declines| Liverpool Echo
Imagine applying for the same promotion 31 times and never getting it. That happened to a state police lieutenant. He claimed discrimination, but the Fifth Circuit said the evidence did not add up. TL;DR: A state police lieutenant said he was passed over for captain 31 times because he was white. But the court looked […]| The Employer Handbook Blog
On the historical origins of pronatalism in race science, this time from the sociologist Edward Ross in 1901.| Family Inequality
Many thoughtful people in the US are concerned about the effects that the 2025 federal budget reconciliation law will have on poor people in many states who are currently enrolled in Medicaid health coverage. KFF has put together a comprehensive analysis of the implications of this omnibus act for Medicaid patients here. I asked Gemini for a summary … Continue reading "The consequences of a trillion dollars"| Understanding Society
Angry with the Trump administration's bombing of Iran, white nationalist groups view the move as a sign to intensify antisemitism, return to vanguardism, or retreat into the woods. The post White Nationalist Responses to the Bombing of Iran appeared first on IREHR.| IREHR
While many white nationalists believe they have allies in the White House, early indications are that the general direction of white nationalist mainstreamers will be to attempt to push the Trump administration and its base in a more fascist direction - much as the white nationalist “Groyper” movement during the first Trump administration. Make American| IREHR
Researchers say more resources, teacher awareness needed to combat racial bias in math lessons.| The Hechinger Report
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before u…| Aliens and Pilgrims
Jameka Haynes • August 26, 2025 Let’s tell the truth: DEI isn’t evil, scary, or negative. But the way it’s being distorted? Whew. Some folks use it to check boxes, push politics, or perform advocacy instead of actually living it. I just wrapped a 6-week Humanizing DEI Group Coaching Experience, and the biggest breakthrough for participants […] The post 🦋 Humanize DEI with Dignity, Empathy & Integrity appeared first on Brownicity.| Brownicity
How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement By Fredrik deBoer Simon & Schuster, 256 pages, $29.99 The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics By Richard Hanania Broadside, 288 pages, $32 The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time| Compact
Adventure photographer Andy Cochrane shoots the infamous ultra| InsideHook
“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” If George Orwell had seen ahead to today’s scramble to make black —but not white —a proper no| Maureen Mullarkey: Studio Matters
Halfway there! And I’m doing better than it might appear in that I’m in the middle of another 7 books and just have to decide what the final 3 will be. This was a sobering but satisfying pair of no…| Bookish Beck
Interview with Silky Shah Silky Shah has been an immigrant justice organizer for over two decades. She is currently the executive director of Detention Watch Network, a national coalition working to abolish immigrant detention in the U.S. We met up recently in Chicago at the annual Socialism Conference. We were both on a panel with other| Hard Crackers
Chicago is a highly diverse city, and it is a good example of life in a multicultural democracy. The image above is a photo of the crowd on Navy Pier on a recent Saturday summer evening. According …| Understanding Society
Recueil de nouvelles de N.K.Jemisin, Lumières noires, présente un vaste choix de genre et de rythme poour une romancière et novelliste de talents.| De l\'autre côté des livres
To reduce the manifold harms of college football, fiery calls for abolition pointed at university decision makers and public health officials won’t get the job done.| Public Books
How far should Christians go to preserve a cultural tradition they deem valuable? Eric Orwoll's Return to the Land project seeks to establish an “intentional community” for people of European ancestry.| Juicy Ecumenism
Dehumanization involves wrongly treating or viewing some person or group as less than human. But what exactly is it to treat or view some person or group as less than human? And how might these actions and beliefs be related? This essay introduces influential answers to these questions so we might better understand dehumanization.| Dehumanization involves wrongly treating or viewing some person or group as l...
The UK Labour Party’s moral decline began with Ed “My Parents Are Refugees” Miliband’s betrayal of Syrian civilians for petty party-political ends. When I saw Labour MPs raise their arms in Parliament in triumph at winning a vote to abandon children to gas attacks, I resigned my lifelong membership of the party. But the main […]| PooterGeek
Thanks to Gaby Charing for this opinion piece from William Saletan in Slate: Trayvon Martin is dead, George Zimmerman has been acquitted, and millions of people are outraged. Some politicians are demanding a second prosecution of Zimmerman, this time for hate crimes. Others are blaming the tragedy on “Stand Your Ground” laws, which they insist […]| PooterGeek
As much for my own reference as anyone else’s enlightenment, here are four articles about the Zimmerman case that you might be better off reading than some of the hysterical, race-fixated nonsense in the media. That first link was to the Shooting of Trayvon Martin Wikipedia article. These next two are from commentators who happen […]| PooterGeek
In the Bay Area, where corps member Audrey Brown reports, highways, ports, and factories are often in close proximity to low-income communities of color. As a result, poor air quality and exposure to toxins disproportionately affect those communities, but due to the high influence of these industries, there is often a lack of accountability or The post Data shows Toxic Waste Cleanups Take Longer in Marginalized Communities appeared first on Report for America.| Report for America
In a bold and deeply analytical new work, The Urgency of Black Madness, author and scholar Prof. George Nyamndi brings forth a voice that is equal parts| New York Weekly
Dr don Trahan Jr. combats anti-DEI movements and pioneers change through Global Equity Entertainment The post The urgent need for equity and inclusion in a divided society appeared first on DiversityQ.| DiversityQ
Reflections on the betrayal and hostility from fellow women in the workplace The post Women against women: the hidden obstacle in Corporate America appeared first on DiversityQ.| DiversityQ
Innovative recruiting programme trains and employs underrepresented groups The post UST: Step IT Up helps solve the talent and diversity gap facing the tech industry appeared first on DiversityQ.| DiversityQ
Asset managers can play a key role in making ethnicity pay gap reporting more widespread say senior financial services leaders| DiversityQ
Feranaaz Farista and Ameeta Jaga, Ph.D. In our article for Gender & Society titled, Workplace Breastfeeding as Foodwork in Organizational Settings: Advancing Knowledge from Black, Low-Income Women in South Africa, we highlight the struggles and innovations in these mothers’ attempts to nourish their children and hold on to a job. We interviewed 33 black, low-income … Continue reading Breastfeeding as Foodwork: The Unseen Labour of Employed Black Low-income Mothers in South Africa→| Gender & Society
Many moons ago, Native Americans were on the warpath over the use of the offensive name Redskins for a football team. Woke Americans changed it to the Washington Commanders. Now, our long national …| Envisioning The American Dream
Resistance as a response to structure has been—and will be—an answer as long as structural systems, power dynamics, social frameworks, and institutional frameworks govern bodies. Scholars lik…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
I realize now that I am composed of the full inventory of the slights and dehumanizing aspects of racism I have known. But why did this story return so suddenly? Was it because many people were talking about racism and anti-Semitism? Why did this early event cause so much anguish and trauma in me thirty-five years after it happened? Was it because all nuns represented a kind of goodness in my six-year-old mind, a goodness that was shattered in an instant? The post The Wallet by Douglas H. Whi...| ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
Originally written in 2013, I decided to slightly revise and repost the following reflections in light of current events. Schelling’s Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Hum…| Footnotes2Plato
Some lawsuits simmer before they boil. This one arrived preheated—with a racist meme, a televangelist plaintiff, and a CEO who mocked him as “Tattoo,” texted a blackface-style image, and said, “Well if I’m your pimp where’s my money? Bring me my money!” When the plaintiff objected, the threats started. The judge didn’t […]| The Employer Handbook Blog
Interview with esteemed labor historian David Roediger about his memoir, An Ordinary White: My Anti-Racist Education.| Hard Crackers
Are you looking to follow a cross country runner diet for the upcoming cross country season? Or even your training season? This post will breakdown a typical cross country diet plan, fundamental nutrition points and more. The post How to Follow a Cross Country Runner Diet appeared first on Nutrition for Running.| Nutrition for Running
This piece is part of a series of essays from artist Kandis Williams on Octavia Butler. Williams is the 2020 Mohn Award recipient and her publication with the Hammer Museum […] The post Movement Building appeared first on MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food.| MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food
This piece is part of a series of essays from artist Kandis Williams on Octavia Butler. Williams is the 2020 Mohn Award recipient and her publication with the Hammer Museum […] The post Mirrors, Windows and Sliding Glass Doors appeared first on MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food.| MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food
This piece is part of a series of essays from artist Kandis Williams on Octavia Butler. Across her works, Octavia Butler taps into and destabilizes a primary process of Eurocentrism—relativizing […] The post Writing Against a Fascist Aesthetic appeared first on MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food.| MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food
This piece is part of a series of essays from artist Kandis Williams on Octavia Butler. “(Euro)Futurism failed to depict the terrors of captivity shaped by race, reality, and materiality. […] The post Octavia Butler and Creative Resistance appeared first on MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food.| MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food
Laura Marti – June 17, 2025 Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the way undocumented immigrants are being treated in this country. And honestly, it breaks my heart. The disregard for dignity and the dehumanization is difficult for me to see play out every day. Their treatment implies that they are disposable—tossed aside with no […]| Brownicity
Maveah Griffith – June 12, 2025 I cannot be the only one who’s noticed the restored animosity towards social movements. Remember 2020? A year that’s only 5 years in the rearview mirror but feels more like a decade out of reach? The summer of 2020 began with unrest and protests following the murder of George Floyd. […]| Brownicity
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò’s Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else) argues that we can free identity politics from its “elite capture.” But why not simply pursue a politics of class?| Damage
I never met him, but George Perry Floyd Jr. changed my life and the way I practice my faith. Like millions of people across the world, I said his name during the summer of 2020. But what echoed back to me was what it means to be human, and I’ve never heard it again so [...]| The Raceless Gospel
On May 15, 2025, the South’s largest surviving antebellum house burned to the ground, sparking debate over the legacy of American chattel slavery. Only a smoldering façade remained, inspiring celebration and memes shared on social media by people glad to see the symbol of human subjugation reduced to rubble and ashes. Completed in 1859, the 53,000-square-foot home [...]| The Raceless Gospel
A final AAPI Heritage Month post...by the numbers from 2000 to 2024| 33n
Dan Berry • May 27, 2025 I’m currently reading Dr. Jennifer Harvey’s new book, Anti-Racism as a Daily Practice. In the first chapter, she talks about how people often approach her and ask how she became so passionate about racism. That made me reflect on how I’ve been asked the same question. If you’re involved in […]| Brownicity
Laura Marti – March 20, 2025 Visiting antique stores has become a favorite outing for our family whenever we’re on vacation. Wherever we go, we track down the local antique shops. We look for used books, music albums, VHS movies, comic books, vintage clothing, kitchen items and dinnerware, tea sets, hand-crocheted afghans, and old wood furniture […]| Brownicity
An onsite manager alleged race and sex discrimination, but the court never reached the substance of her claims. Why? Because she worked for a contractor—not the school network she sued. ...| The Employer Handbook Blog
Some employees make life miserable for their coworkers. They gossip, sabotage, and bully—but that doesn’t always add up to a viable lawsuit. In fact, a recent federal appellate decision reminds us that even the ugliest workplace conduct isn’t unlawful unless it crosses a very specific legal line. TL;DR: Just because workplace behavior is mean, […]| The Employer Handbook Blog
Source: Penny Rabiger – The Wishing Tree at Green Man Festival Every time I open an edition of Schools Week I sigh, knowing that I will always find what is always there to behold. This week, …| tenpencemore
The last six months have been all about running, and I haven’t written anything about it because I was starting to feel superstitious. Getting to the BMO start line was uncertain thanks to injury, and I didn’t want to write about something that I wasn’t completely sure I could do. And then, when I […]| Michelle Barker
In my view the most important thing to acknowledge about the 2010s movement around racial and gender issues is that it exists – something a surprising number of people try to deny. Support it or op…| Love of All Wisdom
A few years ago I attempted to depict the new race/gender movement of the 2010s in a way as neutral, bland, and inoffensive as possible. I got strong pushback even on that much, with a denial that …| Love of All Wisdom
Marathon training nutrition can make or break your race. Here's how to form a proper nutrition plan for your marathon, including...| Nutrition for Running
There’s been various articles written on the phenomenon of Imposter Syndrome, such as this one by Ruchika Tulshyan and Jodi-Ann Burey called “Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome” and this one by our colleague Esther Saehyun Lee, titled “You’re not feeling imposter syndrome, you are an imposter: Identity and belonging in nonprofit work.” I’m glad to...| Nonprofit AF
The removals came ahead of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s Day of Awareness.| The 19th
Image is from Pexels Here is my question to you Why and how is a body Worth more than others? Based on your gender Colour of your skin Or where do you come from When all of us Are the children of o…| Mybookworld24
