A graphic novel for children from the wildly popular “Captain Underpants” series is being pulled from library and book store shelves after its publisher said it “perpetuates passive racism.” By MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer March 29, 2021, 12:20 PM • 2 min read NEW YORK — A graphic novel […]
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German leader Angela Merkel gives a press statement at the Chancellery in Berlin, on March 25. Michael Kappeler/Pool/AFP/Getty Images German Chancellor Angela Merkel has suggested additional measures may be needed in the country to halt the ongoing spread of coronavirus. In a rare interview with public broadcaster ARD on Sunday night, the […]
Life can change in an instant, as I experienced when I first laid my eyes on a tall and bizarrely striking bird known as the greater adjutant. It was India in 2018, in the northeastern state of Assam. I’d ended up there partly because of absurd circumstances, which involved being […]
Not to toot my own horn, but growing up I was quite the athlete. When the time came to select teams for dodgeball or relay races, I was often among those picked first – myself, and many of my other Black friends. In most of the schools I attended throughout […]
ROME (AP) — The Ripetta school of art in Rome recently joined a handful of high schools in Italy that give transgender students the right to be known by a name other than the one they were given at birth. The initiative seeks to create an environment where transgender students […]
Covid cases are ONLY going up in children: Official data shows slight uptick in infections in youngsters… but only because of mass testing drive to reopen schools EXCLUSIVE: Schools opening has not yet resulted in more adults being infected, according to experts Millions of Covid lateral flow rapid tests have […]
Scholastic, the world’s largest publisher of educational books for children, will no longer distribute The Adventures of Ook and Gluk: Kung-Fu Cavemen from the Future because it ‘perpetuates passive racism’ against Asians. Critics charge that the book’s storyline includes a Kung Fu master with dashes for eyes who wears traditional […]
Every day for two weeks she visited each site, lifted the cheesecloth covers and fed the starters flour and tap water, careful to check the jar on the bridge only when nobody was looking. (She’d petitioned the city for a permit but never heard back.) When it came time to […]