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This year, Snow White and Superman have come under attack as being rewritten to be “woke.” But last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a directive that the U.S. State Department would no longer use the Calibri font to “abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program.” This week, Milton Alan Turner discusses whether or not a font can actually be “woke” and why some stories are changed to conform with modern sensitivities.

This year, Snow White and Superman have come under attack as being rewritten to be “woke.” But last week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a directive that the U.S. State Department would no longer use the Calibri font to “abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program.” This week, Milton Alan Turner discusses whether or not a font can actually be “woke” and why some stories are changed to conform with modern sensitivities.

Anti-woke and anti-DEI movements and legislation around the country have some teachers wondering what they can and cannot teach in their classrooms. This week, Milton Alan Turner discusses why diversity equity in inclusion topics are not only appropriate in world languages instruction, but that they are in fact a fundamental part of world language and culture education. Watch "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Keep Us Connected (Full Performance)" on YouTube: https://youtu.be/V9dP6KBFmQU?si=Yt5U0VgrN3aMITlL "Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose-Gooding) sings her way through a complicated mystery, saving the Enterprise in the process."

Anti-woke and anti-DEI movements and legislation around the country have some teachers wondering what they can and cannot teach in their classrooms. This week, Milton Alan Turner discusses why diversity equity in inclusion topics are not only appropriate in world languages instruction, but that they are in fact a fundamental part of world language and culture education.

Every April 15, Major League Baseball celebrates the life, values, and accomplishments of Jack Roosevelt Robinson. However, most people refer to the baseball and civil rights legend as “Jackie” and not by his given name “Jack.” This week, Milton Alan Turner discusses how “Jackie” was a persona Robinson adopted to be more palatable to white America and why instead, as the title of Yohuru Williams’s and Michael G. Long’s book suggests, we should “Call Him Jack.”

Every April 15, Major League Baseball celebrates the life, values, and accomplishments of Jack Roosevelt Robinson. However, most people refer to the baseball and civil rights legend as “Jackie” and not by his given name “Jack.” This week, Milton Alan Turner discusses how “Jackie” was a persona Robinson adopted to be more palatable to white America and why instead, as the title of Yohuru Williams’s and Michael G. Long’s book suggests, we should Call Him Jack.

Afrofuturism can mean many things to many people. It has been used to describe a myriad of literary, artistic, musical, cultural, and technological contributions by African Americans. This week, Milton Alan Turner gives his take on afrofuturism and explain why Black time travelers always want to go forward, and never backwards, in time.

Afrofuturism can mean many things to many people. It has been used to describe a myriad of literary, artistic, musical, cultural, and technological contributions by African Americans. This week, Milton Alan Turner gives his take on afrofuturism and explain why Black time travelers always want to go forward, and never backwards, in time.

Superheroes in comics and more recently in films and television have become increasingly popular and mainstream. As many popular characters are adapted to the big and small screens, increasingly diverse actors are being casts to portray them, sometimes delighting fans and sometimes angering them. This week, Milton Alan Turner talks about race in comics and the practice of racebending. When is it okay to change the race or ethnicity of a character and when is it not okay?

Superheroes in comics and more recently in films and television have become increasingly popular and mainstream. As many popular characters are adapted to the big and small screens, increasingly diverse actors are being casts to portray them, sometimes delighting fans and sometimes angering them. This week, Milton Alan Turner talks about race in comics and the practice of racebending. When is it okay to change the race or ethnicity of a character and when is it not okay?

This week, Milton Alan Turner reacts to the horrific racially motivated mass shooting at a Tops Supermarket in Buffalo, NY on May 14.

As more institutions adopt the use of facial recognition, many criticize this technology as being highly unreliable- especially in its inability to properly identify people of color. This week, Milton Alan Turner discusses some of the issues that prevent most software programs and photographic equipment from accurately recognizing or reproducing images of people of color.

As more institutions adopt the use of facial recognition, many criticize this technology as being highly unreliable- especially in its inability to properly identify people of color. This week, Milton Alan Turner discusses some of the issues that prevent most software programs and photographic equipment from accurately recognizing or reproducing images of people of color.

May 1, International Labor Day or May Day is celebrated around the world, but it is largely unknown in the United States even though it was started here. Conversely, May 5 or Cinco de Mayo is a very popular drinking holiday in the United States while it is a regional and much more somber holiday in Mexico.  This week, Milton Alan Turner discusses how and why these two celebrations have evolved here in the U.S.

May 1, International Labor Day or May Day is celebrated around the world, but it is largely unknown in the United States even though it was started here. Conversely, May 5 or Cinco de Mayo is a very popular drinking holiday in the United States while it is a regional and much more somber holiday in Mexico.  This week, Milton Alan Turner discusses how and why these two celebrations have evolved here in the U.S.