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Hip-hop is the soundtrack to Black Lives Matter protests, continuing a tradition that dates back to the blues
The sound of Public Enemy’s 1989 song “Fight the Power” blared as face-masked protesters in Washington, D.C. broke into a spontaneous…
The 1950s queer black performers who inspired Little Richard
Since Little Richard died on May 9, he’s been rightly celebrated as one of the most exciting and influential performers in…
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These Tech Jobs didn’t Exist Yesterday in Toronto
Toronto’s tech sector is growing at a furious pace: there’s 65,000 workers and counting with more new jobs added than New York, San…
USA: Where are the Hispanic executives?
Many organizations have prioritized workplace equality and access to high-paying, executive level jobs for minority groups in recent years. Several 2020 presidential candidates are…
Sports
The Black-Versus-White Basketball Game That Integrated the Sport Over 70 years ago
When the Harlem Globetrotters and the Minneapolis Lakers played an exhibition game in Chicago in 1948, critics dismissed the contest…
What Michael Jordan’s documentary ‘The Last Dance’ tells us about beating the coronavirus pandemic
With professional sports on hold indefinitely during the coronavirus pandemic, audiences worldwide have been riveted by “The Last Dance,” the…
How indigenous women revolutionized Bolivian wrestling
Though wrestling is widely regarded as the world’s oldest sport, women have only recently gained a foothold. And even then, they’ve done…
This isn’t the first time sports teams have played in empty arenas
The NBA decided that it will suspend its season after a player on the Utah Jazz tested positive for the coronavirus, just…
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