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‘Black girl joy’ is at the heart of this new children’s picture book

sudshr47 February 5, 2019

Breanna J. McDaniel hopes black girls will recognize themselves in her debut picture book Hands Up!. Even before they flip to the first page, they’ll see a smiling black girl jumping on the cover.
“Unfortunately, you still don’t see a ton of th…

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This runner’s epic finish line fail has become a beautiful meme

sudshr47 December 10, 2018

Not many people can say they’ve had the glory of celebrating a European Cross Country Championship win in front of a crowd of cheering people.

Not many people can say they’ve become a meme after face-planting in the mud, either.

Well, Jimmy Gressier can say both. Over the weekend, the runner claimed victory in the men’s under-23, rounding off an epic race off with an attempted knee slide through the mud.

As you can tell from the following video, it didn’t quite go to plan.

Let’s get another angle on that:

How not to finish a cross country race. 🙈#Tilburg2018 pic.twitter.com/2kJ3I6WOFb

— European Athletics (@EuroAthletics) December 9, 2018 Read more…

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Former Facebook employee releases internal memo accusing the company of failing its black users and employees

sudshr47 November 27, 2018

A former Facebook employee is going public with his claims that the company is failing its black employees as well as its black users.

“Facebook has a black people problem,” begins Mark S. Luckie’s internal memo shared publicly for the first time on Tuesday. Luckie says he circulated his memo to all of Facebook’s global employees on November 8, not long before his last day working at the company. Luckie worked at the company for a little over one year as a Strategic Partner Manager for Influencers.

Facebook is failing its Black employees and its Black users. Here’s why: https://t.co/PJSRrFJZrO pic.twitter.com/LeCYxCwBpX

— Mark S. Luckie (@marksluckie) November 27, 2018 Read more…

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A free web tool can predict your hair, skin, and eye color from DNA data

sudshr47 May 14, 2018 Startups

A new tool by researchers at the School of Science at IUPUI and Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam in the Netherlands can predict your hair, skin, and eye color from your DNA data. The system, which is essentially a web app that can accept DNA sequences, compares known color phenotypes to known data and […]

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Texas town will host a .5k run, dedicated to the non-runners out there

sudshr47 April 26, 2018

Want to finally be recognized for running to catch the bus or the time it takes you to walk to the supermarket to grab some snacks? Now, there’s a race especially for you.
Boerne, Texas, is holding their first annual 0.5K (that’s not a typo) ru…

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10 books by black authors that are shaping our conversation about race

sudshr47 February 21, 2018

Sometimes the best way to understand the world around us is to stop and pick up a book.
That’s certainly true of race and power in America. Whether it’s through thoughtful essays, gripping fiction, or haunting poems, contemporary black authors have b…

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Why inclusion in the Google Arts & Culture selfie feature matters

sudshr47 January 21, 2018

When Google Arts & Culture’s new selfie-matching feature went viral earlier this week, many people of color found that their results were limited or skewed toward subservient and exoticized figures. In other words, it pretty much captured the experience of exploring most American or European art museums as a minority. Read More

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Lupita Nyong’o has written a children’s book to change the way kids see beauty

sudshr47 January 18, 2018

Lupita Nyong’o dropped a bombshell of the most wonderful kind on her Twitter and Instagram. She’s written a children’s book about a “dark skinned girl” who, after embarking on an adventure, “awakens with a reimagined sense of beauty.”
The Acade…

Atlanta Gladiators Hockey Race Wiener Dog

If you want people to attend your hockey game, hold wiener dog races on the ice

sudshr47 December 28, 2017

There’s nothing in the NHL rulebook that says a dog can’t play hockey.

That’s just the sort of bravery that minor hockey league team the Atlanta Gladiators showed on Tuesday night, when they held their first wiener dog race.

It’s exactly what it sounds like. In between periods, they lined up a bunch of Dachshunds on a blue line and off they go, slipping their little legs on the hopefully-zambonied ice.

Service members are showing their thanks to a local not-for-profit all the way from the Middle East

sudshr47 November 23, 2017

For the spouses of the brave men and women serving overseas, a phone call or video chat is the only way for families to connect and express their support. Two women with husbands serving in the Middle East have thought of a new way to bring their families together by competing in a race with their husbands while they’re away.

American Family Insurance is a new platinum sponsor of the Berbee Derby 5K/10K Thanksgiving Day Run— a race benefiting Technology Education Foundation, which provides grants to nonprofits for technology programs that benefit underserved youth and adults.

Melanie Kleinheinz and Ashley Bergeman run 5K races every year with their husbands and wanted their family to be together. This year, they ignored the thousands of miles between them and found a way to run the Berbee Derby together. Read more…

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