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Topic: Identity

The Weeknd performs at Marvel Stadium on October 05, 2024 in Melbourne, Australia. (Naomi Rahim/Getty Images for Live Nation)

The power of owning your name

Nardos Haile
Cut of raw Normande beef on black packaging paper (Getty Images/Annick Vanderschelden Photography)

Cultural significance of beef in the U.S

Hannah Cutting-Jones - The Conversation
Maya Erskine as Mizu in Blue Eye Samurai. (Courtesy of Netflix)

"Samurai" cuts through multiracial shame

Nancy Wang Yuen
Stephanie Hsu as Kat, Sabrina Wu as Deadeye, Ashley Park as Audrey and Sherry Cola as Lolo in "Joy Ride" (Ed Araquel/Lionsgate)

Joy Ride's charged humor probes identity

Kyle Turner
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Priya Kansara from "Polite Society" (Photo courtesy of Focus Features)

"Polite Society" star on sisterhood

Joy Saha
Multicolored speech bubbles (Salon/Getty Images/jayk7)

Why we should stop using "Latinx"

Melissa K. Ochoa - The Conversation
Julianna Margulies as Laura Peterson in “The Morning Show” (Apple TV+)

Who gets to play who on screen?

Kylie Cheung
FILE - In this June 21, 2017, file photo, Democratic nominee for the House of Delegates 13th district seat Danica Roem brings campaign signs as she greets voters while canvasing a neighborhood in Manassas, Va. Roem, a former journalist, is challenging longtime incumbent Bob Marshall. If elected, Roem would be the state’s first transgender representative. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Sex and gender diversity is growing

Georgiann Davis - The Conversation
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Why you like certain foods, per science

Valerio Farris - Food52
Laura Jean Anderson (Kaia D'alora)

"I ain’t a child of your God"

Rachel Leah
(Getty Images)

Syria: A homeland I've never seen

Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar
The small city of Hazard, Ky., shown Tuesday, May 26, 2015, nestled in the heart of the coal fields of Appalachia and is at the heart of an injection drug use problem in the region. Public health officials warn if the region doesn't get the problem under control, it's likely to see a Hepatitis C or HIV outbreak. (AP Photo/David Stephenson) (AP Photo/David Stephenson)

Native identity erased from Appalachia

M.W. Flash Clark - 100 Days In Appalachia
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Kanye West (Getty/Dimitrios Kambouris)

The emotional labor of the Kanye fan

Priscilla Ward
(AP/Getty/Salon)

The "Black Tax" is the new Black Codes

D. Watkins
A still from "A Conversation About Growing Up Black" (Joe Brewster and Perri Peltz)

Growing up black in America

Tom Roston
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"Mom" isn't always a title to tout

Mélanie Berliet - Thought Catalog
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Growing up with racists

Mark Phillips
Betty Reid Soskin

Why Rosie the Riveter "is not my icon"

Lauren Schiller
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins (Harper Collins/Sylvie Rosokoff)

Morgan Jerkins: Voice of a generation

Erin Keane
(Getty/Martin Dimitrov)

What it's like to lose yourself

Julia Bainbridge - The Lonely Hour
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Ben Carson (AP/Matt Rourke)

"Black Elephants in the Room"

Tracey Taylor - Berkeleyside
White nationalist demonstrators walk into Lee park surrounded by counter demonstrators in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. (AP/Steve Helber)

Not that Jason Kessler

Jason Kessler

Hands off Dolezal’s braids

Alli Joseph

Rachel Dolezal starts over

Alli Joseph
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