Your hipster beard has long been problematic
Grégory Pierrot’s analysis of the deep roots of white supremacy and black exploitation in hipster culture in Decolonise Hipsters also offers a way out
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Congress sends anti-white supremacist measure to Trump
Rights groups argue that hate crimes are rising in the United States and have called on the president to address ‘domestic terrorism’.
How segregated America made Trump inevitable
Collins unpacks how Trump is not very different from previous American presidents.
UN issues rare warning over ‘alarming’ racism in US
After Trump’s response to Charlottesville, UN says US leadership must ‘unequivocally’ condemn racist speech and crimes.
White woman, reject racism
It’s about time that white women refuse to be beneficiaries of white supremacy
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Award-winning author drew on own experiences
Mary Lee Settle, novelist and founder of the Pen/Faulkner award for fiction, has died from lung cancer. She was 87. Settle died on Tuesday at her home in Ivy, said Jessica Neely, executive director of the Washington, DC-based Pen/Faulkner award. Settle founded the annual award in 1981 to honour the best work of fiction by an American author.
