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Video games
fromGameSpot
2 days ago

Ubisoft Canceled Civil War-Based Assassin's Creed Over Controversy Concerns - Report

Ubisoft canceled an Assassin's Creed game set in the Civil War and Reconstruction featuring a Black escaped-slave protagonist confronting the Ku Klux Klan.
Video games
fromKotaku
2 days ago

Report: Assassin's Creed Game Canceled Due To Political Unrest

Ubisoft canceled a concept Assassin's Creed game set in the Reconstruction era featuring a formerly enslaved Black protagonist due to controversy and corporate risk aversion.
Social justice
fromPortland Mercury
3 days ago

THE BLACK BYLINE: I've Never Joined the Naked Bike Ride-But I Won't Hate on It

Portland organizers used creative protests like an emergency World Naked Bike Ride to resist federal troop intervention and reveal racialized perceptions of local activism.
fromBuzzFeed
2 weeks ago

Pete Buttigieg Just Responded To Kamala Harris Admitting He Was Ideal VP Choice

Pete "would have been an ideal - if I were a straight white man." "But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man," Kamala wrote, according to The Atlantic. "Part of me wanted to say, Screw it, let's just do it. But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk." "And I think Pete also knewe that - to our mutual sadness," Kamala added.
US politics
Media industry
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Broadcasting pioneer Jayne Kennedy opens up on triumphs and heartbreaks in new memoir

Jayne Kennedy broke racial and gender barriers in broadcasting, transitioning from Miss Ohio to pioneering on-screen sports roles despite industry resistance.
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
1 month ago

Diving deeply into familiar tales: Ashland's 'Shane' and 'Quixote Nuevo' * Oregon ArtsWatch

Playwright Karen Zacarias first encountered Jack Schaefer's classic 1949 novel Shane as a sixth grader and recent immigrant to Boston from Mexico. Not yet having internalized the expectation of seeing white Americans at the center of every story, she envisioned the main character of this classic Western tale as Puerto Rican baseball start Roberto Clemente, a hero of hers who happened to be Black, and the farming family at the center of the story as Mexican.
Arts
Arts
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art

White House targets Smithsonian artworks and exhibitions addressing race, slavery, immigration, and sexuality for review and revision under Trump administration cultural directives.
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