An Ohio high school track runner was disqualified for wearing her hijab during a race. Cross country athlete Noor Abukaram ran while wearing a hijab for three years. On Saturday, the 16-year-old finished a race in Findlay, Ohio, at 22 minutes and 22 seconds, her […]
For decades, the chaos in Kenya’s troubled neighbor, Somalia, pushed wave after wave of refugees across the border. They came in buses, on donkeys, and sometimes by foot. But as the number of people moving to what was once the world’s largest refugee camp in […]
According to a Vice report, a new study shows that court reporters frequently fail at correctly transcribing the testimony of Black folks, which can have a devastating impact on individuals during a trial. The new study, which will be published in the journal Language […]
I reached out to the philosopher Judith Butler last year, not long after I wrote an article titled “I Am A Sexist,” as the #MeToo movement was in full swing. I hoped to get an unvarnished critique of the essay. I got much more: […]
LONDON — British lawmakers voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to legalize same-sex marriage and extend abortion rights in Northern Ireland as long as the region’s governing coalition remained paralyzed, setting the stage for changes that would bring the region into line with the rest of […]
When Naomi Wolf appeared at the Strand in Manhattan last month to promote her new book, “Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love,” it might have seemed like your average book-tour event. “It’s a book against censorship,” she said recently in an interview […]
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