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When gay men were confronted about writing ‘no Blacks’ or ‘no Latinos’ on their profiles, many of them became defensive.
Go back to 17th- and 18th-century England and France and you’ll see the same sort of handwringing over birthrates that…
Confronted with centuries of exploitation by their country’s ruling class and foreign powers, Haitian writers warn against…
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In 1970, Gil Scott-Heron penned a spoken word song called 'Whitey on the Moon' that criticized the 1969 Moon landing.…