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Why You Should Stop Using the Term DREAMer

Gaby Pacheco was one of four immigrant youth who in 2010 launched a four-month, 1,500-mile walk to urge…

Jorge Rivas

8/25/17 1:30PM

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Stop Calling These Riots, Now

Watts, Detroit, Ferguson: all sites of historic uprisings in 1965, 1967, and 2014, and each was labeled a “riot” in…

Daniel King and Dodai Stewart

8/04/17 12:42PM

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5/18/17

Stop Calling People of Color ‘Minorities’

Who identifies as a “minority” when it comes to race in America? Many Fusion writers and editors find the label…

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What We Mean When We Say Latinx

When Isa Noyola made an appearance on Democracy Now! last year to talk about the Pulse nightclub shooting, the…

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What we mean, and don’t mean, by ‘Islamophobia’

Just two days after Donald Trump’s refugee ban targeted seven Muslim-majority countries, a white nationalist shot…

Daniel King and Dodai Stewart

2/10/17 11:49AM

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Do not use the term 'illegal immigrant'

From our editorial style guide:

Daniel King and Dodai Stewart

1/26/17 11:27AM

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1/20/17

Let's call lies 'lies'

Seventy percent of Donald Trump’s public statements are false, according to PolitiFact. Some percentage of those are…

Daniel King

1/20/17 11:18AM

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12/22/16

Why we don't call people 'blacks' and 'whites'

Words matter. Especially now. In the wake of Donald Trump’s election, words matter because facts and lives are at…

Daniel King and Dodai Stewart

12/22/16 3:20PM

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