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Six Hacks to Improve Diversity in Book Publishing

The PW Diversity Panel held in October

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Samuel L. Jackson Challenges Celebs Who Did Ice Bucket Challenge To Sing Against Police Brutality

Sam says: If you can pour ice water over your head for ALS, then…

Pakistan’s 1st Female String Theorist Publishes Scientific Discovery Novel

Dr Tasneem Zehra Husain’s Only the Longest Threads

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Jesse Jackson Demands Better Wages for Apple’s Service Workers

Gap needs to close between bottom and top of tech employment rung.

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Rev. Jesse Jackson gestures during an interview in San Francisco on Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. Eric Risberg/AP

“We Need Diverse Books” Returns to BookCon for an SFF Panel!

Nnedi Okorafor and Daniel José Older will be joining other panelists to talk about diversity in genre fiction.

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Cover of “Who Fears Death” by Nnedi Okorafor

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Cover of “Shadowshaper” by Daniel José Older

Superman Socks It to the Ku Klux Klan!! Vintage Radio Show…

The Adventures of Superman: “Clan of The Fiery Cross”

The first of 16 episodes from 1946 sets up the story. “Evil subversives,” secret meetings, and breakfast cereal….

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Listen here.

Why 2014 was a Troubling Year for Video Games

Conflict rises to another level.

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Gamers at the IndieCade booth at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.
Credit Emily Berl for The New York Times

Gina Rodriguez Hopes Other Latinos See Her Success And Say, “Why Not Me?”

Star of “Jane the Virgin,” the CW’s newest fantasy-ish series, gets Golden Globes nom.

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KOICHI KAWAKITA: The Man Who Redefined Godzilla for the 1990s

Rest in Peace, Koichi Kawakita, “Godzilla” movies’ visual effects director…

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Koichi Kawakita, December 5, 1942 – December 5, 2014

BLAIR UNDERWOOD JOINS “AGENTS OF SHIELD” AS AGENT MAY’S EX

Underwood’s appearance slated for March 2015!

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