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Category Justice, Equity & Society
Increasingly, democratic states and institutions are facing a combination of external and internal challenges. These challenges, impacts, and intersections are taken up by our faculty.
![A crew member tosses a line from a patrol ship.](https://torontomuresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/2022-04-13-header-768x512.jpg)
![Jada Pinkett Smith smiles wearing an all red outfit in front of a Matrix poster.](https://torontomuresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/2022-04-06-header-768x512.jpg)
Jada Pinkett Smith and Black women’s hair: History of disrespect leads to the CROWN Act
![Don't Call Me Resilient, A provocative podcast about race.](https://torontomuresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/DCMR_header-768x691.jpg)
Will Smith’s Oscar slap reveals fault lines as he defends Jada Pinkett Smith against Chris Rock, with Cheryl Thompson
![A father, son and mother play a board game.](https://torontomuresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022-03-28-header-768x502.jpg)
Why is board gaming so white and male? I’m trying to figure that out
![A phone showing the TikTok logo rests on an apple laptop keyboard.](https://torontomuresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-17-at-9.25.05-AM-768x527.png)
Both facts and fake news about the Russian invasion of Ukraine are spread on social media
![Men in a variety of 80s style clothing some with their shirts off, are seen crowded on a busy dance floor.](https://torontomuresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022-03-10-header-768x556.jpg)
How LGBTQ2+ 1980s dance parties sparked collective joy and power — and can again
![A Black youth is seen at a computer smiling at a Black teacher assisting her at a keyboard.](https://torontomuresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/2022-03-01-header_-768x512.jpg)
Black youth yearn for Black teachers to disrupt the daily silencing of their experiences
![Composite photo of Paul Robeson and of the cover of the allbum 'Chee Lai: Songs of New China".](https://torontomuresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2022-02-08_header_-768x432.jpg)
How American singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson became a hero in China
![A teenager sits on the ground, leaned up against a brick wall with their hands on their face.](https://torontomuresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/2022-01-07-header-768x512.jpg)
The cost of inaction for youth ‘aging out’ of Ontario foster care is estimated at $2 billion
![A line of people, all wearing masks, wait in line on a sidewalk.](https://torontomuresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2021-12-22-header-768x512.jpg)
Income inequality and COVID-19: We are in the same storm, but not in the same boat
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Competing with confidence: Why we need to bring women’s sport uniforms into the 21st century
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