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Crowdsourced ‘Rate My Media’ Challenges Racial Bias

Posted October 7th, 2016 at 11:00 am (UTC-4)
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A new crowdsourcing website that challenges media representations of minorities in the U.S. and other countries hopes to encourage companies to police themselves and rethink how racial stereotypes are created. It started late in 2015 with a video lamenting a misrepresentation of African slaves as “workers” in a school textbook in Texas. The video, posted […]