‘Indian food is terrible’ tweet sparks debate about racism
A tweet from a US academic calling Indian food “terrible” has sparked a hot debate about cultural intolerance and racism
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Black Facebook employees complain racism, discrimination have gotten worse
An anonymous memo alleging Facebook still has a problem with racial bias is circulating inside the company one year after a
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Poppy emoji launched ahead of Remembrance Day 2019
The emoji has been launched by British British Legion with Poppyscotland and will appear when Twitter users post any of
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African Emojis? Finally!
Texting your friends and ‘:)’ isn’t quite enough? Meet O’Plerou Grebet, who has created more than 350 downloadable emojis with
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Visitors to ‘Church of Bones’ are no longer allowed to take photographs without permission
The Sedlec Ossuary chapel is adorned with signs asking guests to be respectful. But it’s also adorned with bones from more than
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Tweets written in African-American English slang are more likely to be flagged as offensive
The internet is filled with trolls spewing hate speech, but machine learning algorithms can’t help us clean up the mess.
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Gobblebox – Distracted Diners signal the death of the dinner table
ALMOST one in four (22%) British families eat dinner on their laps in front of the TV every day of
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Top ten most dangerous hashtags on social media & how to stay safe
Santander and reformed fraudster Tony Sales uncover the social media hashtags designed to lure people into becoming money mules
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Is gospel music catching festival fever? by Juliet Fletcher
The advantage of getting caught up with mass audience participation The live music experience… As a performing artist, nothing can
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‘I’m going to where people are’: the viral priest using TikTok to start a church
avid W Peters has been set a unique task: travel to a growing suburb in Austin, Texas, and get the
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Are celebrity Christian influencers dumbing down the church?
The lead singer of one of the most popular bands in Christian rock music is joining the growing chorus of believers concerned
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How Toni Morrison inspired a Philly woman’s black bookstore on Instagram
News of Toni Morrison’s death this week hit Tomarra Buckner like a defibrillator to the chest. Growing up in Akron,
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“Likes and comments to blame for mental health pressures”
A new study of over 2,000 people has found that just over half (51%) of all social media users over
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How a proud mum’s Facebook post got her kids into the Olympics
Cape Verde has never won an Olympic medal, and despite the country sending only four swimmers to the 2020 Olympics,
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Too busy for church? There’s an app for that.
Dallas residents Lincolnand Natalie Redmon spent two years bouncing from church to church. After marrying and moving to the city,
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