HBO Max places a disclaimer on "Gone With the Wind"
HBO Max has made the news yet again in its short existence. This time, it’s related to (in my opinion) one of the few strong points of HBO Max, its collection
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GitHub to banish coding terms like "master" and "slave"
The fallout from the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests continue, as multiple sectors are finally taking a closer look at their own problematic elements they’ve ignored until now. Quaker Oats, for
How to avoid or minimize using the police in superhero stories?
Superhero stories tend to frequently or even heavily involve the presence of the police. Part of this might be by their nature: at the end of the day, somebody has to arrest the
Media outlets and Black Lives Matter tweets
The past week has seen numerous protests nationwide sparked by Minneapolis police officers killing George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man. This round of Black Lives Matter protests have, in spite of the coronavirus
The tech industry grapples with hate speech
The past week in tech news has largely centered around the aftermath of the Charlottesville, Virginia counterprotests against neo-Nazis and white supremacists, which saw protester Heather Heyer killed. Since then, various White supremacists&
How #BlackLivesMatter matters: the presence of "Black Twitter"
This weekend marked the one-year anniversary of the horrific shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American man, by police in Ferguson, Missouri. As of this writing, the anniversary is being marked by various