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How To Truly Be An Ally

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As more and more people take a serious interest in the progress, improvement, and restructuring of archaic and oppressive social and cultural standards, namely dismantling the systematic workings of racial injustices, they wonder how they can help in a way that is constructive and positive. A growing, prominent number of black people across the world are not[...]

You Are not a Princess

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At the intersection of pop culture, race and gender politics, there is the advertisement for Mercy Academy. Mercy Academy is an all-girl preparatory school in Louisville, Kentucky (USA) the largest city in the rather rural commonwealth. Recently the school released an ad campaign entitled "You're Not a Princess". The five piece print ad depicts pastel-colore[...]