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In Fayetteville, North Carolina, protesters set fire to the Market House, the site where North Carolina delegates ratified the U.S. Constitution in 1789.

The UDC has built over 400 Confederate monuments on public land alone, according to a 2016 report by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Over the weekend it was defaced, and protesters set fire to it and attempted to pull it down. »

Bad Robot Productions and the Katie McGrath & JJ Abrams Family Foundation announced charitable donations to a number of organizations “committed to anti-racist agendas.”.

In a statement posted on the Bad Robot Instagram page on Monday, they announced a pledge of $10 million over five years to various organizations.

For starters, they will donate $200,000 each to the following groups: Black Lives Matter LA, Black Futures Lab, Community Coalition, Equal Justice Initiative, and Know Your Rights Camp. »

(Reuters) - Seven students at a Camden, New Jersey, school forced to eat lunch on a gymnasium floor for two weeks as punishment won a $500,000 legal settlement, their attorney said on Tuesday.

The 2008 incident involved fifth-grade students at the Charles Sumner Elementary School who were disciplined after one child spilled water as he tried to lift a jug onto a cooler, said the lawyer, Alan Schorr.

The students filed a federal lawsuit against the Camden Board of Education, which agreed to the settlement, the attorney said. »

In Western countries, stereotypes and media representations suggest that men idealize thinness in women while women prefer muscularity in men.

But is there a discrepancy between the body shape that men and women think the opposite sex desires versus what they actually do?

"Specifically, we predict women think men desire thinner and less fat female bodies than men actually do; conversely, men think women desire heavier and more muscular male bodies than women actually do.". »