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National Geographic was ahead of the curve. While it took last summer’s uprisings after the police killing of George Floyd for many media outlets to address bias in their reporting and newsroom culture, the magazine announced its own racial reckoning in 2018. That year it dedicated its April issue to the topic of race, and Susan Goldberg — the first woman to be the magazine’s editor-in-chief — publicly acknowledged the publication’s long history of racism in its coverage of people of...

Throughout much of her childhood, P. felt like something was off. But she didnt know exactly what. "I felt at odds with myself," the Decatur resident recounted. "Almost like my physical body was trying to push me in one direction but I wanted to go another." The breakthrough moment came on a family vacation in 2017, when she read a National Geographic cover story about Avery Jackson, a pink-haired 9-year-old who is transgender. "I remember reading her story at like 1 in the morning, sitting in ...

Transgender Georgians, families brace as states across South pass restrictive laws Updated 8:51 AM; Today 8:51 AM The Georgia State Capitol, where two sets of anti-transgender bills have been introduced. (Jessica McGowan/Getty Images/TNS)TNS Facebook Share By Tamar Hallerman, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (TNS) Throughout much of her childhood, P. felt like something was off. But she didn’t know exactly what. “I felt at odds with myself,” the Decatur resident recounted. “Almost li...

12 . 15 . 20 The fight to legalize same-sex marriage in America was a decades-long culture war. The transgender revolution has been an overnight blitzkrieg. In less than a decade, the Democratic party, the media, the entertainment industry, and much of academia have thrown their weight behind the transgender agenda, and this has profoundly changed childhood. There was once girlhood or boyhood. Now, as director Sharon Liese highlights in a new HBO Max documentary, there is also “transhood.” ...

Street, someone up front yelled theyre in our school and all hell broke loose. >> earl davey runs. someone tackles him. they take his camera and they smash it to the ground. l. alex wilson, the editor of "the tri-state defender" just keeps walking. still photographs caught that. well, take that and just magnify it 100 fold to show you what television was giving. >> you know, i looked at television and there was somebody beating mr. wilson. mr. wilson was just being pummeled. in fact, one of the ...

Of huge thoughtfulness about the strategy that he had asked those who followed him to use. and that strategy was that in the face of violence, you have a moral high ground if you did not return violence with violence. >> negro passengers have been humiliated, intimidated. >> reporter: at first the young minister who went by the unassuming name of m.l. king was only covered by black journalists writing for black papers. >>n particar, "the birmingham world," a black newspaper and its editor ery ja...

Arrive in alabama. >> when they get to anniston, some klansmen, white thugs, stop the bus. they firebomb it. theres a reporter, moses newson, on this bus, and neither he nor anyone on that bus imagines that theyre going to be able to get out alive. >> editor has a close brush with death. when i found myself in that burning bus set on fire by the mob, that cold chilling realization that this might be it came over me. >> they were using boards and chains, daring people to come out and integrate al...

Game, entertainers have canceled concerts and it also, critics believe that it cost the governor pat mccrory his re-election bid. he became the first incumbent governor in north carolina history to lose his re-election. he called today for this special session where state democrats are hopeful but still anxious they could see the repeal of house bill 2. a vote is expected sometime later this afternoon. carol? >> nick valencia, thank you. a kansas city fourth grader making history when it comes...

We havent seen anything quite like this in a very long time. national geographic has been around for 130 years so i cant speak forever but certainly in the last several years. >> i would suspect you have gotten messages from people saying this is a 9-year-old child. what does a 9-year-old child know about identity or gender identity? >> you know, this is one of the things that we have got a story about the science of gender that explores exactly this. but all over the country, families are deali...

And across the united states. and this issue will also be examined in the upcoming documentary called "gender revolution: a journey with katie couric" that will air on national geographic. nice to see you, susan. thank you for being with us. >> thank you, kate. appreciate being on. >> i was struck by this. i have done a lot of reporting about transgender issues and theres a section or a picture rather that you feature, you have several different versions of the cover, right? and one of the cover...