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Peter Mellow
September 25, 2017 4:55 PM
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A train carriage was scrawled with obscene graffiti and rocks were thrown into a home flying rainbow flags.
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from Educational Leadership
September 25, 2017 4:45 PM
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Harsher discipline for black students is not just a Southern or state-level problem.
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Peter Mellow
September 20, 2017 7:39 PM
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Psi Upsilon said it's closing its chapter at Cornell University following the incident, which reportedly involved members of the fraternity.
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from Educational Leadership
September 19, 2017 7:32 PM
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Comparing the methods of Oxford University in the U.K. with those of the University of Mississippi shows there’s much to learn from the latter’s conscientious attempts at dealing with its history of racism.
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September 16, 2017 8:23 PM
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The playwright-actor’s directorial debut reinterprets a blistering drama about race in America for an Australian context
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September 9, 2017 9:21 PM
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She is almost entirely fictitious—so why are some people so keen to believe otherwise?
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September 7, 2017 5:54 PM
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First-hand tale of horror and survival brings genocide home to kids.
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Peter Mellow
September 1, 2017 1:12 AM
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There is no good way to make sense of the category "race" from biological or social perspectives.
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Peter Mellow
August 30, 2017 9:37 AM
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Ten localities in Queensland's north containing the N-word will be discontinued and renamed.
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Peter Mellow
August 23, 2017 3:56 PM
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For all our success on race relations in recent decades, some believe it is acceptable again to vent racial hostility openly.
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Peter Mellow
August 22, 2017 2:07 PM
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Prime minister says it is not possible to stop people saying hurtful things in same-sex marriage postal survey campaign without shutting down free speech
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Peter Mellow
August 18, 2017 1:19 AM
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The video features a Chinese actor, dressed in a turban and phony beard, reciting lines in English but in a manner Indians “are perceived to speak."
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Peter Mellow
August 15, 2017 8:50 AM
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A West Auckland pastor has delivered a sermon calling for gay people to be shot. Westcity Bible Baptist Church pastor Logan Robertson agrees his comments are hate speech but is unapologetic. Footage posted online at the end of July shows Robertson making highly offensive comments against homosexuals. His words have been roundly condemned by another Christian leader.
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Peter Mellow
September 25, 2017 4:46 PM
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For all our success on race relations in recent decades, some believe it is acceptable again to vent racial hostility openly.
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Peter Mellow
September 21, 2017 8:02 PM
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SAM Newman has slammed the AFL in a heated on-air rant on the Footy Show over its public support for gay marriage.
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Peter Mellow
September 20, 2017 3:30 AM
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A tribunal says the Christian school discriminated against the boy by not letting him wear a turban.
Material ranging from the apocalyptic to global conspiracies being used to try to sway Australians’ votes in postal survey
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Peter Mellow
September 13, 2017 6:20 AM
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Police are investigating the family's claim. They confirmed that the boy was treated at a hospital.
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Peter Mellow
September 9, 2017 3:31 AM
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Woman accidentally sentenced her mother to death at Auschwitz.
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September 4, 2017 9:21 AM
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The University of Waikato is reassuring its Islamic community that it does not condone discrimination after one of its lecturers implied on social media that employers should not hire Muslims because they stop to pray five times a day. And Zumber Mohammed, who complained to the university about the post by American and history lecturer Dr Raymond Richards on a Z Energy Facebook page last Friday about diversity in the workplace, has also been contacted by the university thanking him for alerting them to the matter and telling him the university had very clear expectations of staff conduct.
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Peter Mellow
August 31, 2017 1:36 AM
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After the immediate backlash to his casting, the actor Ed Skrein stepped down from playing a character in the Hellboy reboot who was originally written as Asian American.
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Peter Mellow
August 25, 2017 2:01 AM
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As soon as Theo Wilson started making YouTube videos about culture and race, trolls using racial slurs started flocking to his page. After engaging in endless sparring matches in the comments section, Wilson began to notice something curious: His trolls seemed to speak a language unto themselves, one replete with the same twisted facts and false history. It was as if they had all passed through some “dimensional doorway,” arriving from an alternative universe where history, politics and commonly accepted facts had been turned inside out.
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Peter Mellow
August 23, 2017 1:00 AM
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As a woman of colour in Australia my life is punctuated by insults and verbal abuse. In Charlottesville we were reminded how easily hateful words can turn into hateful actions
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Peter Mellow
August 18, 2017 1:22 AM
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The move by Pauline Hanson, the leader of the anti-immigrant One Nation party, drew strong criticism, with one lawmaker denouncing it as “appalling.”
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Peter Mellow
August 16, 2017 9:09 AM
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I thought this generation was free of the anti-Semitism I knew. On Saturday, that changed.
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