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Editor’s note: For several years, the name Border Crossers didn’t feel like the right fit. The organization had grown well beyond its original mission to support youth in “crossing borders” with one another in service of dismantling racism to—for nearly a decade now—supporting …
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On the afternoon of May 29th, Starbucks will close approximately 8,000 stores for a training on racial bias. The truth is that it’s hard for many of us who are white to grasp just how deeply steeped in racism we all are, which means sometimes we don’t know where to start, or …
At this point, everyone knows that Moonlight won the Academy Award for best picture, but only after the trophy was given to a team of white people who made a very white movie. The accounting firm responsible for tallying the awards has since taken responsibility for the snafu, …
Two days after Donald Trump won the electoral vote, I found myself in a room with hundreds of government and nonprofit professionals who, like me, were horrified by the frequent racist, xenophobic, and misogynistic slurs and threats spoken by this president-elect – and the …
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