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"There's still racism very much alive and well in Prairie Village," Selders said about her tony bedroom community in Johnson County, Kan., the wealthiest county in a state where more than 85% of the population is white.

The racially restrictive covenant that Selders uncovered can be found on the books in nearly every state in the U.S., according to an examination by NPR, KPBS, St. Louis Public Radio, WBEZ and inewsource, a nonprofit investigative journalism site. Although the Supreme Court ruled the covenants unenforceable in 1948 and although the passage of the 1968 Fair Housing Act outlawed them, the hurtful, offensive language still exists — an ugly reminder of the country's racist past.

"I'd be surprised to find any city that did not have restrictive covenants," said LaDale Winling, a historian and expert on housing discrimination who teaches at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg."

"There are all kinds of video game mods, but very rarely do they strive to make a political statement. Maybe that’s why I like this particular Guilty Gear Strive modification so much: It gives vampire badass Nagoriyuki an outfit that promotes the Black Lives Matter movement. Pretty minor as far as game mods go, but a great statement nonetheless.

The mod in question updates Nagoriyuki’s tenth outfit with a neat black-and-yellow color scheme, but the biggest change comes in the addition of the words “Black Lives Matter” to his knuckles and belt as well as “No Justice No Peace” emblazoned large on the back of his jacket. Its creator, a Guilty Gear player named Lingo Starr, wrote on Twitter that it took them two days to complete."

“As a public figure, Osaka is aware that the media will cover her as they see fit—and when they do so abusively or irresponsibly, she is within her right as a person and as an influential athlete to set personal boundaries for the sake of her own mental health. After all, if the highest-paid female athlete of all time cannot blaze this trail, then who can? Certainly not the Williams sisters, who were abused by the press for years. The few times Serena Williams stood up for herself—like when she got angry that a ref and several outlets implied she was cheating in the 2018 US Open—she was branded as aggressive and compared unfavorably to her white counterparts. The primary thing Osaka is inheriting from Serena Williams, and the other Black and Asian players that came before her, is a toxic system that does more to dismantle a woman athlete of color than it does to serve her.“

“Watching Yasuke feels like a full-circle moment to me too. Growing up, and even now as an adult, I never expected to see Black people in anime. I’m surprised and delighted when I do—provided it’s not a racist depiction. (I am looking at you, Sister Krone from The Promised Neverland. Yes, I know she’s a good character, but the way she’s drawn...yeah, nah I take issue.) Black characters in anime are rare, so whenever they show up, I hoard them like precious jewels. As I’ve gotten older, there seems to be more Black anime characters than ever before. And now, I’m getting shows made by Black people too. It’s like a Black anime character renaissance for which Yasuke is the crowning jewel.“