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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain When a white Texas middle school teacher told his students in November 2022 that he was "ethnocentric" and thought his race was "superior," he attempted to explain his position by arguing that he was hardly the only person who held such a view. "Let me finish …" the teacher is seen telling his…

| A month ago, Bleeding Cool broke the news that Gotham City: Year One, a new DC comic book series by Tom King, Phil Hester and Eric Gapstur, would contain the following warning on the index page, though there had been no heads up to comic book retailers who may have been ordering the title. Instead, they discovered via Bleeding Cool.  Gotham City: Year One "This comic contains language of a racially offensive nature and may not be suitable for all age groups. Its inclusion is an intentional creative choice intended to…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As we approach Juneteenth, a day marked each year to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved African Americans, new research in the INFORMS journal Management Science finds that racially-charged events and protests over the past decade have a direct and positive effect on what children are learning in U.S. public school classrooms.…