NPR:
It turns out that feeling, the ability to shop without being judged, resonated in a different, more profound way for black Americans in the Jim Crow era. Cornell historian Louis Hyman argues the Sears catalog was radical in its day because it allowed black Americans to have the same shopping experience as whites.
Though officially classified as a communalist riot, the events of 2002 have been described as a pogrom by many scholars
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According to official figures, the riots ended with 1,044 dead, 223 missing, and 2,500 injured. Of the dead, 790 were Muslim and 254 Hindu. The Concerned Citizens Tribunal Report, estimated that as many as 1,926 may have been killed. Other sources estimated death tolls in excess of 2,000. Many brutal killings and rapes were reported on as well as widespread looting and destruction of property. Narendra Modi, then Chief Minister of Gujarat and later Prime Minister of India, was accused of condoning the violence, as were police and government officials who allegedly directed the rioters and gave lists of Muslim-owned properties to them
Tensions have flared at two of India's best-known universities over the screening of a BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his role in deadly religious riots in 2002.
Police detained about a dozen students at Jamia Millia Islamia university in Delhi ahead of a planned screening.
On Tuesday students at another Delhi university said power and internet had been cut to stop them showing the film.
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JNU student leaders distributed QR codes so people could stream the video on their laptops and phones.
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stones were thrown at them by "a group of 20-30 people"
Tech companies — including Twitter — are following the Indian government’s demands to suppress a BBC documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. As reported by The Intercept and TechCrunch, Twitter and YouTube both locally blocked The Modi Question, which investigates claims of Modi’s involvement in India’s deadly 2002 Gujarat riots.
(His tweet)Cat Turd Two: "My pageviews are down 3%, I demand an invetigation into the vast conspiracy against my tweets"
— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) January 25, 2023
Elon: On it right away sir!
User: "why are you censoring an anti-Modi documentary at his behest?"
Elon: "I do not pay attention to what happens at...Twitter, was it?" pic.twitter.com/LD9YodZJqH
WaPo:
The Republican Women’s Club of South Central Kentucky held a dinner event Tuesday at [a Greek restaurant] in Bowling Green, Ky., for ... a former sergeant with the Louisville Metro Police Department who was among the officers who conducted the botched no-knock raid at Taylor’s Louisville apartment in search of her ex-boyfriend. [The former sergeant], who was one of the officers who fired into the 26-year-old Black woman’s apartment the night she died, was cleared of wrongdoing in an internal police investigation and retired in 2021 to become a conservative author and pundit.
...a Bowling Green resident who was dining at [the restaurant] on Tuesday, told The Washington Post that after [the former sergeant] was introduced with “raucous applause” from the event’s attendees one floor above them, the former sergeant played a presentation featuring footage and images of the night Taylor was killed. After the lights were dimmed in the restaurant, diners who were not affiliated with the event could hear and see the graphic descriptions of Taylor’s killing, [the resident] said.
“You could hear the gunshots in the footage”
The event was initially scheduled to take place at the Bowling Green Country Club in conjunction with an appearance by [the] Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner ..., a 2023 gubernatorial candidate in the Republican primary. [He] canceled his appearance ahead of time, citing “the controversial nature of another speaker at this event,” and the country club told The Courier Journal it "made the decision to cancel the dinner event upon being made aware of the invited guest speaker."
In 1924, the Virginia General Assembly enacted the Racial Integrity Act. The act reinforced racial segregation by prohibiting interracial marriage and classifying as "white" a person "who has no trace whatsoever of any blood other than Caucasian
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The Racial Integrity Act was subject to the Pocahontas Clause (or Pocahontas Exception), which allowed people with claims of less than 1/16 American Indian ancestry to still be considered white, despite the otherwise unyielding climate of one-drop rule politics. The exception regarding Native blood quantum was included as an amendment to the original Act in response to concerns of Virginia elites, including many of the First Families of Virginia, who had always claimed descent from Pocahontas with pride, but now worried that the new legislation would jeopardize their status
WaPo:
In Confederate mythmaking, that made Pocahontas the mother of the South. She was a symbol of Southern exceptionalism, a link to royal ancestry, a queen among the heathen. As John Esten Cooke wrote in his 1861 poem “A Dream of the Cavaliers,” she was “Our own dear Pocahontas! Virgin Queen of the West — With the heart of a Christian hero, in a timid maiden’s breast!” An Indian who embraced the virtues of whiteness, her symbolic presence in the Confederate cause helped to justify the subjugation of nonwhite people. During the war, one Virginia cavalry unit went so far as to name itself “The Guard of the Daughters of Powhatan” and emblazoned an image of Pocahontas on its battle flag as it fought to preserve slavery.
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In 1887, former Virginia governor Wyndham Robertson published “Pocahontas and her Descendants” to assist those searching for ancestral connections to this most American of founding mothers. He noted that the descendants of Pocahontas ranked among the finest Americans, and therefore, he argued, she was clearly of superior stock.
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To circumvent the stigma of Jim Crow segregation, the First Families of Virginia demanded that the law contain a “Pocahontas exception” . . . . The group needed an exception to claim an indigenous woman as a symbol of their superiority over nonwhites, including actual Indian people living in Virginia.
I got tons of nudes. Out of 100 avatars I generated, 16 were topless, and in another 14 it had put me in extremely skimpy clothes and overtly sexualized poses.
I have Asian heritage, and that seems to be the only thing the AI model picked up on from my selfies.
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My white female colleague got significantly fewer sexualized images, with only a couple of nudes and hints of cleavage. Another colleague with Chinese heritage got results similar to mine: reams and reams of pornified avatars.
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my Lensa avatars were more realistic when my pictures went through male content filters. I got avatars of myself wearing clothes (!) and in neutral poses. In several images, I was wearing a white coat that appeared to belong to either a chef or a doctor.
Per the last study done by the state, 30 years ago:
Beach access is also — perhaps unsurprisingly — an issue of racial inequity. The state’s urban beaches are free and easily accessible, but some of the beaches located in more racially and ethnically diverse communities such as Boston, Lynn and Quincy are also more prone to bacterial contamination that poses a health risk, sometimes forcing beach closures.
Opened a package & it's the newest book by @gerardusjanssen titled "Hackers" in geschreven het Nederlands featuring famous hackers @UID_ #BarnabyJack @0xDUDE @mikko @Yafsec #MelanieRieback plus me @SecEvangelism & many, many more. Get your hoodie & read this great book! pic.twitter.com/26qLemPypw
— Chris Kubecka 🇵🇷🇨🇿🇳🇱 ✈️🇺🇦 @MiddleEastInst (@SecEvangelism) March 15, 2022
[A] University of Pennsylvania dermatologist ... conducted hundreds of human experiments over two decades at Holmesburg Prison in Pennsylvania.
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While they didn’t dispute the company hired [the dermatologist] in the 1960s to do baby powder tests, J&J officials said they regretted the firm’s involvement with the dermatologist. Still, they noted the tests didn’t violate research standards at the time.
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While jurors heard about the results of [the] asbestos study, they weren’t told the test was done on prison inmates or their race for fear of unduly prejudicing the panels against J&J.
Pro. Werro(https://t.co/GdLZbMTKXH) of @GeorgetownLaw #GeorgetownLaw has a very racist way of conducting his law school "cold call." #LawSchool #Lawyers #Racists #StopAsianHate #education #WashingtonDC pic.twitter.com/EKM7oUdHVg
— SensenSz (@choose_ur_term) February 11, 2022
BREAKING: San Francisco voters supported the ouster of three school board members, The Chronicle is projecting.
— San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) February 16, 2022
Gabriela López, Alison Collins and Faauuga Moliga will be officially removed from office. https://t.co/nKL8mbVBC5
Collins came under fire for comments made on Twitter that appeared to be anti-Asian. The tweets, which dated to 2016 before her election to office, said Asian Americans used “white supremacist” thinking to get ahead and were racist toward Black students. Their emergence prompted the board to revoke her title of vice president. Collins apologized for the tweets and said they were taken out of context. She dismissed calls to resign.Many Asian parents were already angered by the board’s efforts to end merit-based admissions at the elite Lowell High School, where Asian students are the majority.As a result, many Asian American residents have been motivated to vote for the first time in a municipal election. The grassroots Chinese/API Voter Outreach Task Force, which formed in mid-December, said it registered 560 new Asian American voters.
Embattled San Francisco school board member Alison Collins dropped her $87 million lawsuit against the district and five fellow board members Tuesday, opting not to fight a federal judge’s strongly worded dismissal of the case in August.Collins filed the paperwork Tuesday to voluntarily dismiss all claims against all defendants, the same day recall supporters submitted 81,200 signatures to try to oust her from her seat on the school board....Collins filed the lawsuit in March, accusing her colleagues and the school district of violating her free speech rights when they voted to strip her of her vice presidency and remove her from committees over tweets she posted in 2016 about Asian Americans.
The Bookhouse Pub on Ponce https://t.co/ZueNWCgpKP
— BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL (@edsbs) February 4, 2022
"People that know me fully understand those are not my views."
Only a few left in this edition. https://t.co/kx67um85WC pic.twitter.com/stdk5QzXnQ
— JonathanHarrisArt (@JonHarrisArtist) December 21, 2021
This is probably the best piece of technical job interview/His Dark Materials crossover fan fiction ever written. https://t.co/6A70c4hhxE pic.twitter.com/2S4SLJpyWd
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) January 22, 2022
"Previous efforts to end the joint holiday, including one that would give Lee his own day in October, have failed in the Alabama Legislature." (Wikipedia.)
Also, a Golden State Warriors owner (and big California governor recall sponsor) celebrated the day by saying, "Nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uyghurs, okay?...The rest of us don’t care."
Utterly fascinating what is said, and what is unsaid. pic.twitter.com/NmmyVG57Qi
— Alex Godofsky (@AlexGodofsky) January 11, 2022
Part 2 of Kendrick Perkins defending his appearance on “The Jump” during Rachel Nichols apology pic.twitter.com/rcrZHcLn5L
— gifdsports (@gifdsports) July 6, 2021
let’s discuss rachel nichols….this is a tale as old as time 🤦🏽♀️ pic.twitter.com/t7Rv9t6EQI
— mariah rose (@mariahcrose) July 5, 2021
Which one was longer: Rachel Nichols' apology on #TheJump or one Giannis free throw? pic.twitter.com/R6Hlr51okb
— Theon Legolas (@PrologueBlack) July 5, 2021
Vulture has a long interview with him:
It might have opened in first were it not for my insistence that I not participate in a worldwide press tour. The producers never spoke to me again after that. Ray Harryhausen wouldn’t talk to me for 25 years after that. They came to me and said they wanted to do this global press tour. I was really excited. They had all the countries we were going to, but the big kickoff party was going to be in Johannesburg. I said, “The one place I can’t go of all those places is Johannesburg because I’m on an anti-apartheid committee.” And they said, “What’s apartheid?” I said, “Well, you’ll have to look it up, but I can’t go.” And they said, “Well, that’s a problem because Johannesburg is underwriting the entire tour.”
He was also extremely passionate about cutting off Medusa's head with a sword and not his shield.
my thanks to everyone who recommended other 1980s & 1990s Japan-bashing books & #industrialpolicy apocalyptic volumes. I've started building a slide depicting them all together. Feel free to suggest others I can add. It's worth documenting this history before we repeat it. pic.twitter.com/ciQgVEG8U3
— Adam Thierer (@AdamThierer) June 1, 2021
The "equality stamps" were available in different skin tones, and the lighter the tone, the more valuable the stamp.
The postal service said on Twitter that the pricing had aimed to reflect “an unfair and painful reality that should not exist,” and that it had hoped the campaign would “give voice to a generation devoted to equal rights and diversity.”
2. Notice the antebellum-style portrait behind Kemp as he signs the suppression law? Thanks to Twitter crowdsourcing and particularly @TheSeaFarmer, I can report the measure to limit Black voting was signed under the image of a notorious slave plantation in Wilkes County, GA
— Will Bunch Sign Up For My Newsletter (@Will_Bunch) March 26, 2021
This attempted murder-suicide (but everybody recovered, incredibly, from wounds from a .357 Magnum) at Charles Schulz's studio in the nineties is quite the tale.https://t.co/nh5cje5JJi
— Paul Chadwick (@PaulHChadwick) April 3, 2021
Am now rabbit holeing on this SoHo artist certification thing, possibly the most insane residential zoning story in a city that specializes in them. The city rejects certification for artists whose work has shown insufficient development over time! https://t.co/sLiGrELzEv pic.twitter.com/CwFqI9va6t
— Tom Gara (@tomgara) April 5, 2021