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The Nature of Racism (and Colorism) in Media, and Why They Need to be Addressed

The Black Lives Matter has been allowed to be more visible the past months. This is to say that the movement did not just suddenly appear. No, the need for black equality and reforming of the corrupt law enforcement system…

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Why Black Lives Matter: Understanding the Movement and its Momentum

#BlackLivesMatter started off as a Twitter movement. African-Americans had been fed up of being shot down and denied the right to plead due to prejudice time and again. They have been denied the right to fair trials, the right to…

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An Overview of the Systemic Discrimination against African Americans

What do we associate with African-Americans? Drugs? Gang violence? Petty theft? This association is called stereotyping. Stereotyping: The association of certain attributes, mostly negative, to a certain community with no logical backup. Narcotics is bad, but narcotics is abused at…

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Slavery: How History Set the Stage for the Oppression of African Americans

Imagine waking up one day and not finding your father home. You go to school thinking he’s already left for work. You come home. You play around until late. Then you realize, he might never be home again. Among people…

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George Floyd’s Death Sparks Outrage and Protest Across the United States

A pandemic is evidently not enough to stop racism and violence. On May 25, 46-year-old Black man, George Floyd, was suspected of using a counterfeit $20 bill in a transaction at Cup Foods. White officer, Derek Chauvin, forced Floyd to…

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India’s Citizenship Amendment Bill: States and universities in protest

On 11th December, India’s Rajya Sabha passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019. The Act is directed towards providing Indian citizenship to minorities such as Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh. Anyone belonging to these minorities…

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Why Leaking Intimate Photos is Still a Thing: The Vicious Culture of Victim Blaming

With the #MeToo movement finally having brought few changes in the minds of the more liberal patriarchs, it finally is nice to see some kind of positive reform. However, one issue that mostly remains unaddressed is online sexual violence. This…

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How the Joker Became the Face of Protests around the World

When Joker first arrived in theaters, there was significant outcry about the character possibly inspiring disturbed individuals to carry out violence. There was precedent for this, too:in Aurora, a lone gunman shot several people during a 2012 screening of the…

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Those Who Leak Intimate Photos (and Why They Do So)

Let’s make some clear distinctions to start things off. Nudes: By nudes we mean any and all form of intimate photos, regardless of how much skin revealed, that have been shown/leaked/exposed to someone else without the consent of the person…

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A Close Look at the Kishor Alo Tragedy: Must the Show Go On?

Life is precious, as long as losing a life does not hamper an ongoing event in any way. Naimul Abrar Rahat, a student of Class 9 of Dhaka Residential Model College (DRMC), lost his life after being electrocuted during the…