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The UK is a better place to live as a minority than other major western democracy such as the USA, Germany or France but many black and Asian people still face discrimination in their everyday lives, the findings of a major report have suggested.Ahead of the 75th anniversary this month of the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush to Britain, the British Future think tank sought to gather a state of the nation picture of public attitudes on race, identity and prejudice.

Back in the early '90s it would have been hard to imagine a time would come when people would long for double denim, the glumness of grunge and Ethan Hawke's patchy Reality Bites facial hair.Yet more unfathomable: that there would be any affection for anything about that era's nascent political correctness with its penchant for words like womyn and other idealistic but often ill-conceived efforts to reimagine the dictionary.

The government's draft Mental Health Bill must be strengthened to address unacceptable racial inequalities, a group of cross-party politicians has said.A joint committee charged with scrutinising the draft legislation will publish a detailed report on Thursday following extensive hearings to determine how effective it will be.

CAPE TOWN  A violent attack by a group of white men on two Black teenagers at a resort pool in South Africa on Christmas Day has sparked widespread outrage, reviving images from the ugly days of apartheid and serving as a stinging reminder of the country's unresolved racial tensions.Cellphone footage of the assault  which the teenagers said started when they were told the pool was for white people only  spread widely on social media.

Stanley Engerman, one of the authors of a deeply researched book that, wading into the fraught history of American slavery, argued that it was a rational, viable economic system and that enslaved Black people were more efficient workers than free white people in the North, died on May 11 in Watertown, Mass.

Among the many efforts to decenter whiteness in academia and other left-leaning institutions is one to take on the presumed racist tendencies embodied in musicology.It's an issue that has nagged at me for years and one exemplified by a new book, the Hunter College music professor Philip Ewell's On Music Theory, and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone.

In cities across Australia in 2020, as Black Lives Matter protests erupted around the world, the number 432 was everywhere displayed on banners at rallies and at marches.That number didn't exist before we published Deaths Inside, says Calla Wahlquist, one of the Guardian Australia journalists behind the massive data-based project.

Suella Braverman has railed against experts and elites and what she called the divisive politics of identity, in a highly partisan speech that is likely to be viewed as setting out ideas for a post-election Conservative leadership bid.Addressing the National Conservatism conference in Westminster, the home secretary made comments trailed in advance about the need for the UK to cut back on legal migration and train domestic workers for jobs such as fruit picking.

As the Islamic holy month of Ramadan begins, Habiba says she is terrified by the thought of fasting this year.After her disordered eating patterns spiraled into bulimia and binge eating disorder during her mid-teens, she says the ritual of abstaining from food and drink from sunrise to sunset can exacerbate the need to restrict her eating further and risk slipping into a toxic cycle.

The death rate by suicide is much higher among disabled people than those who do not have disabilities, the latest data suggests.The highest rates of suicide were in disabled men aged between 40 and 50, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).The ONS said it is the first time rates of suicide can be estimated across groups such as the disabled, after it linked information on ethnicity, partnership status, disability status, socioeconomic status, religion, region, and armed forces status from the 2011 census with death registration data.

The independent vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted unanimously Wednesday in favor of the two-dose Jynneos mpox vaccine for adults at risk of catching the disease during an outbreak.If the CDC agrees with the committee's recommendation, there will be a recommendation in place to give the vaccine to people who are at risk for mpox during future outbreaks.

Black people in the United States experienced 1.63 million excess deaths when compared to white people over a 22-year period, according to a new study published Tuesday.A Yale-led group of physicians and health equity scholars set out to analyze excess deaths for the U.S. Black population compared to their white counterparts, from 1999 through 2020.

The number of people under age 20 with type 2 diabetes in the US may increase nearly 675% by 2060 if trends continue, researchers say, with an increase of up to 65% in young people with type 1 diabetes.Type 1 diabetes  in which the pancreas makes little or no insulin  is more common in young people in the US, but type 2  in which the body doesn't use insulin the way it should  has substantially increased in this age group over the past two decades, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Life expectancy in the United States dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, falling to the lowest it has been since 1996, according to final mortality data published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.Covid-19 was a major contributor to the decline in life expectancy, which is now nearly two and a half years shorter than it was at the start of the pandemic.

A group of masked men displayed an "Embrace white pride" banner over the 101 Freeway in San Luis Obispo County for the second time in recent weeks, drawing counter-protesters and police to the scene.The four unidentified men argued with activists Saturday at the Vineyard Drive Overpass in Templeton that looks over the 101 Freeway.

In 2011, author, lawyer, and Chinese American Amy Chua hit the bestseller list with a manifesto for overbearing parents titled Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, in which she made the case for stringent, results-focused Chinese parenting.Chua walked right up to the line of calling American parents sentimental wimps (even putting a toe over it in some interviews) and a lot of people took it personally.

The best summer camp movie isn't what you might expect.The movie is the 1993 sequel, Addams Family Values.Its wicked social commentary, taken from the perspective of perplexed outsider kids, makes it a better summer camp movie than such apogees of the form as Wet Hot American Summer, Meatballs, and Ernest Goes to Camp.

Photo by Michael Minasi/KUT.A state trooper performs a traffic stop off East Riverside Drive last week.Texas Department of Public Safety has made a deal with the Austin Police Department to help with patrols.Monday, May 1, 2023 by Andrew Weber, KUT
New data from the Travis County Attorney's Office shows Black and Latino people have been disproportionately arrested by state police in the last few weeks.

Fox News' The Five flew into chaos when co-host Jessica Tarlov suggested that when discussing the topic of transgender people, it was respectful to use correct pronouns.The exchange took place on the Thursday edition of The Five and a clip from the episode began to circulate on Twitter via Justin Baragona.

The Toronto Maple Leafs played a really good game list night.The Toronto Maple Leafs are also a fourth place team in the entire league, and given the parity of the salary capped league, where goalies and refs are the most influential participants of most games, that puts them within the margin of error from being the best team in hockey.

A film about a Black first grader who integrated an all-White elementary school in the South is under review in a Florida school district after a parent objected to the movie's use of slurs and argued it could teach students that White people hate Black people, according to school officials and documents obtained by CNN.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Celebrities including actor Charles Dance and explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes are urging MPs to back a trophy-hunting ban after the Bill was dealt a blow by a so-called wrecking amendment from a Tory backbencher.

Why aren't professional athletes more supportive of athletes whose ACL surgeries fail?Of course, sports media focuses on the careers of athletes who play professional sports, but surely athletes who can no longer play due to an unsuccessful knee surgery are worthy of as much coverage as the athletes who win games?

Book bans have plagued many US schools throughout 2022, with stories focusing on LGBTQ+ and race issues being targeted by conservatives across the country, and the right aims only to step up its attempts at censorship in the new year, experts warn.States including Missouri and Utah have seen intensifying crackdowns in recent months, with some Utah school libraries now requiring permission slips for students to borrow books covering LGBTQ+ themes.

Disney's anti-racism film Ruby Bridges is the subject of a complaint brought by a Florida parent who claims the movie is not appropriate for second-graders, because it might teach them that white people hate Black people.The film, which tells the story of a six-year-old girl who integrated New Orleans schools in the 1960s, has been a staple of school curriculums during Black History Month in the state's Tampa-area county of Pinellas.

The historic building in Chelsea has been sitting empty for years.Earlier this week, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to calendar the former Colored School No. 4 at 128 West 17th Street by Seventh Avenue in Chelsea, the last-known "colored" school in Manhattan.For the unaware, to "calendar" a location means that officials have scheduled a public hearing to discuss the significance of the site and potential plans to actually landmark it.

In January, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida announced he would ban a draft curriculum proposed by the College Board for a new Advanced Placement course in African American studies, criticizing the educational merit of the course.This month the College Board released an official curriculum that revised the course by designating some of the writers and ideas in the draft curriculum as optional topics of study rather than core lessons.

Officials at a New York middle school have apologized after serving students fried chicken, watermelon and waffles on the first day of Black History Month.In a letter to parents, officials at Nyack middle school, an hour outside New York City, apologized for the inexcusably insensitive meal, which played off historically racist stereotypes.

Randall Robinson, a self-described pained victim of stolen identity raised in segregated Virginia who grew up to galvanize Americans against apartheid in South Africa and champion reparations for the descendants of slaves, died on Friday in Basseterre, on the Caribbean island of St. Kitts, where he had lived in self-imposed exile from the United States for more than two decades.

The termination is a show of how "neutral" media outlets inevitably prop up fascism.Igor Golovniov / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images News outlet Axios fired a reporter in Tampa, Florida, this week after he called a press release from the Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) administration "propaganda" in an email that DeSantis officials posted online to smear the reporter.

Ah, Dilbert, we hardly knew ya.Scott Adams, creator of the popular "Dilbert" comic strip, has faced a backlash of cancellations after a tirade on his YouTube livestream in which he described Black people as members of "a hate group" from which white people should "get away."

Last month, more than 20 years after the Archives of Sexual Behavior published research surveying gay people about whether they were molested as children-and whether they identified as gay before or after-a note appeared online."A reader alerted the editor-in-chief that there were concerns regarding some of the data," the four-paragraph note on the article says.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa What is the weight of history?For Stephanie Wright, it's as slight as the thinnest of books, a 259-page volume that has upended her life for months and set her on an unusual and determined quest for recognition.She appealed to the Justice Department and some of the highest-ranking officials and judges in the federal court system in the Midwest.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Refugees have been attacked and abused outside a hotel in Merseyside which saw violent anti-migrant protests last month, police said.Asylum seekers living at the Suites Hotel in Knowsley, along with staff and non-white people in the area who have nothing to do with the premises, have been targeted, said Merseyside Police, who are investigating a number of hate crimes.

AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez Scott Adams announced on Monday that a non-Dilbert book was cancelled and he was dropped by his publishing agent in the wake of racism accusations over a rant where he encouraged White people to get the hell away from Black people.The Dilbert comic strip was dropped last week by hundreds of newspapers, many of which condemned Adams' comments.

Kamau Franklin stood in midtown Atlanta on a recent chilly, drizzly night, held a microphone and addressed a crowd that had peacefully marched a mile to the headquarters of the Atlanta Police Foundation the organization behind the $90m police and fire department training center known as Cop City.[Atlanta] Mayor Andre Dickens is this enough Black folks for you? he began, with several dozen Atlanta police department officers standing behind him, most with riot helmets and some with long guns, guarding the entrance to the 50-story building.

More than half of Black Californians said there was a time in the last few years when they thought they would have received better healthcare if they had belonged to a different racial or ethnic group, according to a report released Thursday.By comparison, 27% of Latinos, 12% of Asian people and 4% of white people responded the same way, the report said.

It has been a January of vigils for California.For the Central Valley town of Goshen, after gunmen killed six members of a family, including a 16-year-old mother and her infant son.For Monterey Park, where 11 people were killed at a dance studio just hours after the city's Lunar New Year celebration.

Local "He always wants to give credit to others and not accept credit himself, which he so richly deserves."MERCED, Calif.(AP) - A courthouse in California's agricultural heartland was named for a native son who went from working in the fields to a distinguished career at Harvard Law School, where he taught Barack and Michelle Obama.

Local "The Sun Chronicle will not provide a platform for a racist," the newspaper's executive editor said.Readers of The Sun Chronicle in Attleboro opened their newspapers Monday to find a blank space where the usual "Dilbert" comic strip once ran.It wasn't a printing error; the newspaper announced earlier this week that it has opted to stop publishing "Dilbert" following racist remarks by Scott Adams, the comic's creator.

Black people and those from other minority groups are significantly more likely to be prosecuted in England and Wales than white people who have been arrested on comparable charges, according to a major new study that the Crown Prosecution Service called troubling.The study, which had been commissioned by the prosecution service itself, presents law enforcement authorities with official evidence of racial disparity in how they decide which cases to prosecute.

I have a file on my desktop titled Mansplaining Olympic Tryouts, mostly screenshots of some of the most epic specimens I've come across on social media or that people have steered my way.They're grimly hilarious: a man explaining vaginas to a noted female gynaecologist, a man telling Sinn Fein adviser Siobhan Fenton to read the Good Friday agreement (she replied with a picture of herself with the book she wrote on that agreement), and the famous incident with Dr Jessica McCarty, about which she tweeted: At a Nasa Earth meeting 10 years ago, a white male postdoc interrupted me to tell me that I don't understand human drivers of fire, that I def needed to read McCarty et al.

At the beginning of this school year, a Philadelphia student asked a question that briefly took her teacher's breath away: Are you more Malcolm or are you more Martin?Keziah Ridgeway, 37, who teaches African American historya required class in the citysaid the student added that Martin Luther King, Jr. was more peaceful and that Malcom X was more violent.

This year may not have been the sea of calm you had hoped for after the tumult of 2020 and 2021.The pandemic continued; war broke out in Europe; we experienced natural disasters and troubling shortages; and more viruses stoked fears.But 2022 was also a year of learning and discovery.At Well, we found new strategies to combat stress in our lives and build psychological resilience.

A few days ago, I witnessed first-hand what working from home was doing to our society.It was a normal work day, and I rushed from my home to the local tube station.As I descended the stairs, I steeled myself for the usual crush of the Central line.But when the train whooshed into the station and I boarded, something seemed odd.

A practical guide to launching a local journalism startup
This flew under my radar: the team behind the Ghost CMS, partnered with the Google News Initiative to help launch some local news sites a couple of years ago.Ghost's Kym Ellis has spoken to three of the sites - RANGE media, Madison Minutes, and Sioux Falls Simplified - and extracted some really useful practical advice for people looking to get their own hyperlocal venture up and going.

When Scott Adams, the Donald Trump-revering creator of the Dilbert cartoon strip, last week quoted stats from the right-leaning polling operation Rasmussen Reports to justify a racist rant in which he admonished white people to just get the hell away from Black people, whom he labeled a hate group, the condemnations were swift.

Chicago mayoral candidates Brandon Johnson and Paul Vallas rolled out more endorsements Monday as they continue jostling over Black political support.In the morning, Johnson stood with fellow West Sider U.S. Rep. Danny Davis to announce the progressive Cook County commissioner's first endorsement from a politician who initially backed Mayor Lori Lightfoot before she was knocked out of the race on Feb. 28.

Former Boston Celtics big man Kendrick Perkins, now a talking head for ESPN, has gotten himself into the headlines for his aggression towards NBA MVP voters for giving Nikola Jokic the past two MVP awards - and getting a strong emotional response back from JJ Redick -, and he's now taking aim at George Karl on Twitter for disagreeing with his assessment of "truth."

Reported hate crimes skyrocketed in Chicago in 2022, nearly doubling from the year before, police data shows.And as hate crimes rise sharply , several authorities are warning of a heightened threat this weekend because of a neo-Nazi-planned "National Day of Hate."The Illinois State Police are urging heightened vigilance as antisemitic groups share extremist messaging online encouraging hate actions this weekend.

Marissa Evans More than half of Black Californians said there was a time in the last few years when they thought they would have received better healthcare if they had belonged to a different racial or ethnic group, according to a report released Thursday.By comparison, 27% of Latinos, 12% of Asian people and 4% of white people responded the same way, the report said.

JGI / Tom Grill / Getty Images A Black infant is many times more likely to die within one year of birth than a white infant is, even if that Black infant comes from a wealthy home, a new study shows.The study, which was published by the National Bureau of Economic Research last month, demonstrates that disparities in Black infant mortality rates cannot be explained by economics alone.

Gerrie Coetzee, a South African heavyweight boxing champion who rejected the epithet great white hope and criticized apartheid, earning the respect of Nelson Mandela, died on Jan. 12 at his home in Bloubergstrand, a suburb of Cape Town.He was 67.The cause was lung cancer, his longtime manager, Thinus Strydom, said.

Adults taking antidepressants who want to come off their medication should not go cold turkey and should instead use a staged approach, experts have said.A staggered reduction of medicine, known as tapering, could cut the likelihood and severity of withdrawal symptoms, according to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice).

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We can all spot a photo created by AI, right?We like to think so at least.While the latest series of photos showing a fake house party full of people who don't exist doesn't exactly challenge that assumption, it might make you do a double take.A Twitter user shared the series of house party photos, which were generated by AI platform Midjourney, and at first glance they seem normal.

The Government should appoint a mental health tsar to be an advocate for patients, MPs and peers have said.A joint parliamentary committee has called for the appointment of a Mental Health Commissioner to oversee key reforms in the sector.The call comes after groups of MPs and peers scrutinised the draft Mental Health Bill.

The family of a man killed in an alleged "swarming" attack by eight teenage girls in Toronto last month is speaking out for the first time since his death.With the pain of his loss still raw, a statement sent on behalf of the family says they are not ready to open up in depth about their loved one, Ken Lee.

A Brooklyn judge accused of making racist and homophobic remarks about court workers, fellow judges and others has agreed to give up her seat on the bench, officials said on Monday.The judge, Harriet L. Thompson of Brooklyn Surrogate's Court, was set to face a misconduct hearing next week.In a legal filing, a top New York judge wrote that Judge Thompson said that being gay is an abomination to mankind and that Hispanic people had a deceitful trait that goes way back to biblical times.

From the pages of Brownstoner magazine, here are the stories of six Brooklyn dwellers who adapted their interior spaces to suit their modern lives.Each property offers a personal spin on Brooklyn living, including an artist's whimsical Prospect Heights brownstone, a casual home for a family in Ditmas Park and a woodwork-filled Prospect Lefferts Gardens row house discovered by the owners in the 1970s.