Mediacorp
Empowering Marginalized Women: Creating a Ground-Up Difference
This video highlights the inspiring story of a young woman who overcame adversity and found her passion in making coffee. It also introduces a woman who started a business to empower marginalized women with employable skills. The video...
The Guardian
Why Jordan Peterson is filling the void
Is modern masculinity in crisis? As part of a new series for the Guardian, journalist Iman Amrani is speaking to men across the country about the issues that are affecting men and boys in today's society. In this episode Iman asks, away...
Barcroft Media
Model With Down Syndrome Challenges Beauty Stereotypes: BORN DIFFERENT
THE first model with Down Syndrome to front a beauty campaign is hoping to shake up the industry and prove that "beauty belongs to everybody." Katie Meade is the first to admit that people with Down Syndrome, as well as other...
Mediacorp
Students from Different Educational Tracks Share Their Experiences
In this video, a teacher reflects on their experiences visiting different schools and organizing a face-to-face discussion among students from different educational tracks. The students share their expectations from their parents and the...
Kult America
What Does Middle East Really Look Like?
In this episode of Kult America, we explore my first impressions of the middle eastern country of Qatar. Having spent 4 days in Doha, I found that as is the case in most places people are people. I was not approached or harassed by...
Religion for Breakfast
What is Satanism?
Satanism is a widely misunderstood tradition. Misconceptions about it are influenced, in part, by a moral panic that swept through the US in the 1980s and 1990s. But what really is Satanism?
Mediacorp
Decoding Social Class
This video focuses on how one determines their social class, what makes a class marker, labels and stereotypes and how they are formed. Regardless of Class part 3/8
The Guardian
Masculinity is not what you see on TV'
As part of a series on Modern Masculinity, Guardian journalist Iman Amrani is exploring what masculinity means to men, aiming to hear from voices that are not often heard in mainstream discussions. In this episode, she hears from young...
Science360
As we develop, how do stereotypes come to affect behavioral choices?
As we develop, how do stereotypes come to affect behavioral choices? Andrew Meltzoff, Co-Director of the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, answers your question in this edition of Ask a Scientist.
Global Ethics Solutions
Respect and Fair Treatment: A Diverse Workplace
Diversity can mean a lot of things in the context of the workplace. What kinds of diversity are there in the workplace? What are the goals of diversity? How can we be collaborative and unified, yet be diverse in the workplace? These and...
KERA
"Baldo" Comic Strip Features Latino Voices
The comic strip Baldo has been published in newspapers across the United States for 20 years. It was the first ever to feature a Latino family as the main characters. Hector Cantu, the author of Baldo was inspired to create the comic...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Alexander Todorov - Face Value The Irresistible Influence of First Impressions
Face Value: The Irresistible Influence of First Impressions The scientific story of first impressions–and why the snap character judgments we make from faces are irresistible but usually incorrect. Dr. Todorov’s lab studies how people...
Mediacorp
Class Bias and Social Mobility in Education
This video focuses on education and whether or not it is a limitation or a catalyst for social mobility. Regardless of Class part 6/8
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Susan T. Fiske - Stereotyping and Prejudice
Professor Fiske's research addresses how stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination are encouraged or discouraged by social relationships, such as cooperation, competition, and power. We begin with the premise that people easily...
Curated Video
A Syrian refugee reaches for the skies
Maya believes nothing is out of reach as she dreams of becoming a commercial pilot.
Curated Video
Raising Babies Without Genders
A growing number of parents are choosing to raise their newborn babies without imposing stereotypical gender constructs on them, allowing the baby to identify either way. Alex Morris, Contributing Editor at NYMag's The Cut, wrote about...
Curated Video
A tour of Doha with ‘The Qatari Guy’ comedian
Comedian Hamad al Amari is known as ‘The Qatari Guy’. He took Al Jazeera’s Sana Hamouche for a tour of Doha.
Curated Video
Former employee describes offensive comments allegedly made by MP
A former employee of Toronto MP Yasmin Ratansi describes comments he heard Ratansi make about constituents. CBC News has obscured his face and changed his voice to protect his identity.
Curated Video
Ex-employees say Toronto MP Yasmin Ratansi mistreated them
Former employees raise new concerns about the work environment created by Toronto MP Yasmin Ratansi, who is leaving the Liberal caucus after CBC News found she employed her sister for years against parliamentary rules.
Curated Video
EU gender pay gap won't be closed until 2104, new report says
The EU's gender pay gap won't be eliminated until 2104, according to a new report by one of Europe's largest workers' unions. The European Trade Union Confederation's (ETUC) research demonstrates that at the current pace of change and...
Curated Video
Artist's work looks to 'reconstruct' the Black identity
Digital artist Kiki Symoné's work shows Black people doing everyday things — a way to counter stereotypes perpetuated by the media. "I think my goal is to reconstruct our identity and to show a different narrative of who we are and can...
Curated Video
Aunt Jemima to rebrand, end use of racist stereotype
The Aunt Jemima brand is based on a racist stereotype, but amid mounting criticism its 131-year history is coming to an end.
Curated Video
Mammy, Jezebel and Sapphire: Stereotyping Black women in media | The Listening Post (Feature)
Submissive, sexy, sassy - the three reductive depictions of Black women that we continue to see on our screens today.
Curated Video
Dubai shows its funny side
Dubai is fast making a name for itself on the international comedy scene, with homegrown talent keen to shatter stereotypes. And with more than 200 different nationalities living in Dubai, comedians that come to perform have to learn...