War over words: US Scrabble leader overrules panel to ban slurs
New York City, USThomson Reuters Foundation North American Scrabble competitors will no longer be able to play racist and homophobic slurs from the “N-word” to “bumboy” and “poofs”, the head of the players’ association has said, in an 11th-hour ruling that went against his own advisory board. John Chew, chief executive of the North American […]
In the US, black clergy call for churches to foster healing in the aftermath of Charlottesville
RNS An ecumenical group of African-American clergy gather outside the US Capitol in opposition to the proposed pending budget and health care bill on 18th July. PICTURE: RNS/Madeleine Buckley A coalition of African-American clergy is calling on churches to serve as sacred spaces for healing in the aftermath of violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, and as […]