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Underground is a new series on WGN America centered on the planned escape of slaves from a Georgia plantation in 1857. Given the virtual absence of television series focused on American slavery since Roots in 1977, one can’t help but make comparisons. Underground is, obviously, a period drama, but unlike …
Read More »KJ Ward
‘You’re Good at What You Do’: Backhanded Compliments and Thinly Veiled Bias on ‘So You Think You Can Dance’
Persistent racial inequality in America still means that young people of color with a love of dance have unequal access to its 'classical' forms.
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A club, grub, and performance space hub in SOMA.
Read More »Fresh-Squeezed: Florida Orange Juice Exposes Assault on White Middle Class
Negative stereotypes of race, class, and gender persist in the media.
Read More »Self Circumscription: Surviving and Maintaining the Circle of Exclusion
...with liberty and justice for me.
Read More »Homage to the Troops on the Ground
It's a tough job, and there's never a captive audience.
Read More »Fair and Balanced or Pathetically Apologetic?
Why must progressives share blame when it justly lies totally with conservatives?
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