‘Many of the books that did feature Asian children were centered around cultural themes like Chinatown, Chinese New Year, or Chinese characters—which was great, but I was really looking for books that followed just the story about a really cool and awesome child that just happened to be Asian,’ Zhang explained in a video about his project.
“This is the start of a three-year effort to decolonize the curriculum in our public schools,” said Colin Rose, assistant superintendent of opportunity and achievement gaps for Boston Public Schools,
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In a particularly weird turn at the juncture of news, health and propaganda, a Hollywood studio is using fake news sites describing imaginary epidemics and made-up politics to sell a movie about a fake cure.
The ploy was a publicity stunt to promote director Gore Verbinski’s “A Cure for Wellness,” a horror movie set in the 1920s at a mayhem-filled Swiss therapy spa in which, according to the trailer, women lie in snake-filled bathtubs and everyone seems to have ghoulish makeup.
The movie’s publicity campaign launched during the Super Bowl with a mock pharmaceutical ad for a “cure” that has terrifying side effects, including “insanity, self-mutilation, murderous rage and addiction to pain.”
To promote the film, the studio set up fake news sites whose names suggested they were hometown newspapers — SaltLakeCityguardian.com, Houstonleader.com, Sacramentodispatch.com, Indygazette.com — in cities where the movie opened earlier this month. And in some cases, the fake news took off.
A pro-Trump, anti-vaccine website fell for the hoax and picked up one of the “stories,” which claimed that President Donald Trump — who in real life has blamed vaccines for causing autism, emboldening anti-vax forces — had ordered the CDC to remove all vaccine-related information from its website.
As a black person and as a third-world person … I don’t have my own narrative in this medium, which is cinema. Since the discovery of cinema others have been the one telling the story. … A Native American could redo all the John Wayne westerns from a different perspective. This is what we don’t have, we don’t have our own visual history. So being a filmmaker for me was also trying to save part of our memory, part of our images, part of our stories. I saw it as one of the responsibilities to have to make sure that we are not totally dead in the picture.
