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IndyStar will be recognizing the top girls basketball players in Indiana with our players of the week poll.

By Kevin Messenger Here are the candidates for SBLives Indiana High School Athlete of the Week for Nov. 5-12 as nominated by fans, readers and SBLive’s staff.

Today's Water Cooler

Gaslighting isn’t just between people in a relationship—it involves social power, too

Ezekiel Dixon-Román and Ramon Amaro discuss deepfakes, haunted algorithms, and Black techno-conjuring.

Please join us in launching The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Culture of US Capital (NYU Press), by Erica R. Edwards! Moderated by Evie Shockley, with remarks by Roderick Ferguson, Avery Gordon, Fred Moten, Nadine Naber, Mary Helen Washington, and Erica R. Edwards.

What White People Can Do Next, by Emma Dabiri, review: razor-sharp analysis of racism, capitalism and power The i 4 hrs ago Georgina Lawton © Provided by The i Emma Dabiri dismantles the concept of allyship (Photo: Press) There is a plethora of anti-racism texts to choose from at the moment – book deals aplenty followed the Black Lives Matter resurgence in the summer of 2020 – but few pack as big a punch as this. Emma Dabiri cuts through the regurgitated discourse, prov...

. Alison Mountz. University of Minnesota Press. 2020. Find this book (affiliate link):  Last October, the Guardian revealed that the UK Prime Minister’s office was assessing the possibility of detaining asylum seekers in Moldova, Morocco and Papua New Guinea. Aiming to strengthen the ‘hostile environment policy’ after Brexit, documents consulted by the Guardian show that Downing Street asked the Foreign Office to examine if the UK could follow the Australian model of detaining asylum...

Patriarchy Theocracy and Tragedy: the Dark Shadow of Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes Ireland’s Mother and Baby Homes Commission Report: a mirror held up to the power of dominance, socialised diffidence and our own need to ‘de-link’ and connect. On the 5 February 1984, people across Ireland – and throughout that worldly ‘other’ Ireland – the diaspora of millions living in London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Cardiff, New York, and right across the mapped circuit of the globe – read of ...