How do breakdancers avoid breaking their necks?
A term emerged in the 1980s for a spinal cord injury caused by breaking called ‘break-dancing neck.’
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From Michael Brown to Sonya Massey, a decade of police antiblack violence causes grief, worry and co
With every new incident of racial violence, Black people tend to undergo a collective sense of racial grief.
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Decades on, Delbert Africa’s surrender still provides powerful image of US racism and Black victimho
A white Philadelphia police officer was killed during a 1978 confrontation with the radical group MOVE. Often overlooked…
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Members of Congress undermine the country – and their own legitimacy – with antidemocratic rhetoric
2 scholars analyzed more than 1 million official Tweets from members of Congress − and found a lot of antidemocratic language…
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From a pig as political candidate to a breakout speech for Obama − Democratic National Convention of
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz will officially accept their nominations at the Democratic National Convention. A scholar of…
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Good flooding? Scientists use rice cultivation to preserve soil in Florida’s Everglades Agricultural
A soil expert explains why flooding rice fields in South Florida benefits the agriculture-rich region.
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Islamic State’s genocide was not limited to killing and enslaving Yazidis, Christians and other comm
A scholar of Iraq describes the ongoing loss following the genocidal violence by IS − not just of human lives, but of…
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How charities with thrift shops can get better stuff from their donors instead of junk
Giving cruddy clothing, furniture and other useless stuff to a charity does it no favors, since it costs money to get rid…
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How to get your kids ready to go back to school without stress − 5 tips from an experienced school c
Taking the stress and uncertainty out of going back to school can ease the process, a veteran counselor explains.
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Qatari mediation was already producing diminishing returns – assassination of Hamas negotiator furth
Successor to slain Palestinian negotiator is a hardliner who resides in Gaza’s tunnels and has no realistic chance of…
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Imane Khelif controversy at Paris Olympics shows how sex testing in women’s sports puts regulators i
Most sports are organized according to a strict male-female binary. Nature isn’t.
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Remembering the longest journey to Auschwitz – the deportation of Rhodes’ Jews decimated a small but
Even as Germany’s defeat loomed, the Nazis deported nearly 1,700 Jews of the Ladino-speaking community of Rhodes to concentration…
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White men who have been mistreated at work are more likely to notice and report harassment − new res
These findings suggest that encouraging white men to reflect on what happens to them on the job could make them better allies…
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For Black Americans, higher police pay doesn’t always mean fewer violent confrontations as it does f
A new study finds that higher salaries in cities with unions leads to an uptick in the death rate for Black people from…
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