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YouTube Announces New Crackdown On Hate Speech Videos

“[The company] said content that alleges a group is superior in order to justify discrimination on characteristics like age, race, caste, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status would be prohibited under its new hate speech policy. It’ll also remove some conspiracy theory videos that deny well-documented violent events, like the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting and the Holocaust.” – Slate

Artist Joe Overstreet, 85

“Over the course of a six-decade career that cut across artistic movements and unflinchingly addressed issues of racism and inequality, Overstreet established himself not only as one of the signal painters of postwar American art, but also as a vital organizer. … He helped to create exhibiting opportunities for numerous artists of diverse backgrounds at Kenkeleba House, the arts space he cofounded in Manhattan’s East Village in 1974.” – ARTnews

How Russia’s ‘Documentary Theatre’ Company Exposes Injustice

Founded in 2002, Teatr.doc assembles scripts from documents and participant testimony from important incidents in contemporary Russia. Writer Verity Healey reports on the company’s latest project, Torture, “about the physical and psychological methods officers from the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) used on a group of left-wing young men prior to the 2018 World Cup.” – HowlRound

Pro And Con Protesters Clash Over Drag Queen Story Hour At Small-Town Maine Bookstore

“About 50 people packed the inside of the Children’s Book Cellar, where is was shoulder to shoulder, like a rainbow mosh pit. Ophelia, a drag queen from Topsham, read from two books about inclusion.” “Across the street, another much smaller group, called An End to Child Indoctrination at the Cellar Bookstore, said their message was not about hating anyone.” – The Morning Sentinel (Waterville, Maine)

By The Numbers, U.S. Museums Are Overwhelmingly Male, And White

A new study says that, at 18 major U.S. museums, with 10,000 artworks analyzed, the numbers are overwhelmingly clear. “The study found that 85.4% of the works in the collections of all major US museums belong to white artists, and 87.4% are by men. African American artists have the lowest share with just 1.2% of the works; Asian artists total at 9%; and Hispanic and Latino artists constitute only 2.8% of the artists.” – Hyperallergic

In St. Louis, A Group Of Rising Theatre Leaders Of Color Find Mutual Support

As theatre makers confront a rapidly shifting landscape – one of them, a professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, saw her entire department eliminated, all student productions ended, and her position moved to communications – they find inspiration and ideas with each other. “Getting to be in a room and talking with other artists who know the same kind of stress and extra weight that you’re feeling as a person of color, that was probably the most special part of the experience,” one said of her time with the Rising Leaders of Color cohort. – American Theatre

Intersectionality And The Meaning Of Culture

The term “intersectionality” was coined in 1989 by professor Kimberlé Crenshaw to describe how race, class, gender, and other individual characteristics “intersect” with one another and overlap. “Intersectionality” has, in a sense, gone viral over the past half-decade, resulting in a backlash from the right. – Vox