Via PBS.  How Teachers are Trying to Stop the Spread of Hate As children in the U.S. woke up and went to school Friday morning, the world was grappling with the news of the mass shootings that killed 49 people at two mosques in New Zealand. “It’s absolutely necessary that we don’t wait until we have horrific … Read More

Via The New York Times.  The Effect of Intersectionality in the Workplace By Alina Tugend Photo by Andrea Levy The concept of intersectionality — referring to the complex and cumulative way different forms of discrimination like racism, sexism and classism overlap and affect people — seems have popped up relatively recently. But as Brittany Packnett, an … Read More

Via The New York Times.  Criticism of Skin Lighteners Brings Retreat by Unilever and Johnson & Johnson The companies have responded to a new wave of criticism calling beauty products that advocate lighter skin discriminatory. By Priya Arora and Sapna Maheshwari As major consumer products companies have rushed to declare their opposition to racism in response to the … Read More

Via The New York Times.  Can Biology Class Reduce Racism? By Amy Harmon Please sign up here to have the Race/Related newsletter delivered weekly to your inbox. COLORADO SPRINGS — Biology textbooks used in American high schools do not go near the sensitive question of whether genetics can explain why African-Americans are overrepresented as football players and why … Read More

Via Medium. What I Think About When I Hear That Broadway is Racist By Heathcliff Saunders The Blacker the Body, the Sweeter the Juice. That’s me. In Hairspray. photo credit: John Pai I’m a musical theater writer. I look pretty unusual in the world of musical theater writers, in the sense that I am not a … Read More