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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 color in the US and abroad. “Until the 1970s National Geographic all but ignored people of color...

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 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 the Airbnb thinking, 'oh my God, that sounds like me,'" said P., now 16. There are no simple paths ...

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 like my physical body was trying to push me in one direction but I wanted to go another.” The breakt...

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.” Transhood follows the families of four gender-confused children in Kansas City over five years. It i...

Street, someone up front yelled they're 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 guys said run, damn you, run. and he just kept walking. >> wilson creases his hat and puts it back ...