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January 29, 2017 7:27 PM
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The actress and activist talks to TIME about her TedTalk on online misogyny and the steps that can be taken to curb it.
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January 24, 2017 4:43 PM
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Many Trump see Mexico City as a threat, but not Moscow.
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January 23, 2017 4:41 PM
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A look at gender and ethnic diversity in presidential cabinets.
Social media has made its way into almost every area of our lives, but much of it still operates outside limits that are set in the real world. Sadly our laws are insufficient to deal with online crime – and that includes hate speech.
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January 21, 2017 5:24 PM
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Gloria Steinem and Harry Belafonte, two of the March on Washington co-chairs, discuss why they're optimistic about the future of activism
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January 15, 2017 5:03 PM
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A new production of the opera King Roger will open this week. At a time when Europe was charged with fear of the 'Muslim threat', this 12th century king collaborated with an Islamic scholar on an extraordinary project.
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January 11, 2017 5:33 PM
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These hate crimes and incidents of harassment were reported in recent days.
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from Aspects of Ageing
January 8, 2017 4:47 PM
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“Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.” — Claude Pepper
Globally people talk against racism and sexism. However, a very few people talk against ageism. It is a well-admitted fact that there is a discrimination against age groups globally.
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January 7, 2017 11:53 PM
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ONE Nation candidate Shan Ju Lin has reportedly been suspended by the party after she labelled gay people abnormal, saying that they should be treated as patients and need to receive treatments.
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January 2, 2017 1:03 AM
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Australians talk openly about painful history at public events. Americans might try the same.
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December 21, 2016 4:58 PM
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Written by Aleyah Ha an Islamophobia doesn’t just stop with a random man whispering “ISIS” under his breath as a Muslim walks past him, or a couple of teenagers grabbing spray paints from thei
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December 14, 2016 4:52 PM
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The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on how to handle customers’ bigoted views and whether to approach your neighbors about their dog hoarding.
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December 11, 2016 8:11 PM
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"It is not enough to say, 'I did not do it'. Do we absolve ourselves of responsibility to feed the starving children of the world, even though their plight is not of our doing?" he said.
"People can share personal guilt for failing to remedy the effects of injustices, or they can take pride in the fact they took on the responsibility of making their society a better place to live in."
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January 29, 2017 4:51 PM
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A strict immigration quota and “antisemitism, xenophobia, nativism and isolationism” doomed many of the passengers aboard the St. Louis in 1939, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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January 24, 2017 4:41 PM
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How might an Aboriginal person in the Northern Territory experience racism? There are many material signs that can make a person feel excluded from society.
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January 22, 2017 6:44 PM
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A WOMAN has been caught on camera allegedly abusing a Muslim student wearing a niqab at a Sydney university, calling her a Muslim terrorist and demanding she take off her veil.
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January 21, 2017 6:01 PM
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Donald Trump has placed at the center of his foreign policy vision the phrase “America First,” which comes heavily saddled with anti-Semitic and pre-WWII isolationist history
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January 18, 2017 10:42 PM
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Dead white men are revered by many as responsible for the advancement of civilisation, says sociology professor Kehinde Andrews. But, he argues, this so-called progress came at the expense of millions of people of colour. Global inequality is not an accident, he argues – it is designed to keep the hierarchy of race intact
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January 15, 2017 4:57 PM
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"#DontNormalizeHate" draws parallels between the Japanese internment camps in the 1940s and Donald Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric.
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January 9, 2017 10:19 PM
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Urban-education programs prepare them for imperative contemporary conversations with students.
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January 8, 2017 3:26 PM
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Ipswich mayor Paul Pisasale has threatened to cut council funding of next month's Harmony Day Festival unless its president, disendorsed One Nation candidat
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January 4, 2017 9:51 PM
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The spokeswoman for Sir Peter Leitch says she has learned a thing or two in the last couple of days about casual racism - and the idea that what you might think is okay, can be offensive to others.
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December 24, 2016 2:27 PM
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The women, part of the giant step for mankind, have their stories told in this movie directed by Theodore Melfi.
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December 20, 2016 6:24 PM
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Lynne Elworthy has been dismissed after speaking up, in defiance of gag orders, to denounce the cruelty of Australia’s refugee policy.
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December 13, 2016 9:56 PM
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These hate crimes and incidents of harassment were reported in the last week.
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