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The Mexican women who kicked out the cartels
Adelaida Sánchez is a member of the community police force in Cherán, a Purépecha indigenous town in Michoacán, Mexico, which declared itself autonomous in 2011. When the town was under siege from illegal logging, cartel criminals, and...
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Love jihad: India's lethal religious conspiracy theory
The mutilated body of a 24-year-old Muslim, Arbaaz Aftab Mullah, was discovered on a railway track near his home. His family believe he was murdered because of his interfaith relationship with a Hindu woman and that he is one of the...
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Lives instead of knives': one woman's fight to end knife crime in London
Smith's Farm Estate in Northolt, north-west London, has been the scene of multiple stabbings. After one murder came particularly close to home, community volunteer Jen Lock began a one-woman mission to end knife crime in the area. But,...
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One man's fight to get knives off the streets of London
Shocked by a series of stabbings in his area of east London, Courtney Barrett set up his own knife amnesty in an effort to get blades off the streets. As he collects 25 knives from members of the public outside Leytonstone tube station,...
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I learnt a lot in juvie' : the Aboriginal boy who grew up in detention
When Jared turned 20 in November, it was only his second birthday since the age of 11 that he spent out of detention, hundreds of kilometres from his home. Here he tells Guardian Australia reporter Melissa Davey his story and speaks of...
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We are the outcasts': my day on the Juggalo march
Fans of the Insane Clown Posse - otherwise known as Juggalos - were classified as a gang by the FBI in 2011. They have been fighting the label ever since, claiming they are just music fans and have no ties to criminal activity. The...
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Inside the strange world of NFTs
Celebrities, sports people, politicians – anyone and everyone seems to be getting into NFTs. These non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have changed the business of buying, selling and owning art and digital property, and 'collectibles' like...
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Self and wellbeing: Hacking enlightenment: can ultrasound help you transcend reality?
Can technology improve the way we meditate? At the University of Arizona, Dr Jay Sanguinetti and master meditator Shinzen Young are using ultrasound to improve our ability to achieve mindfulness, as well as enhance our cognition and...
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My homeless brother died on the streets of Glasgow. Who will be next?
Mark Starr died on the streets of Glasgow earlier this year; his family found out five weeks later on social media. As part of the Guardian’s empty doorway series we retraced his final steps alongside his brother Tony. Did Mark have...
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People don't even look at me': eight black women discuss politics of light and dark skin
As part of our Shades of Black series, we invited eight women to talk about their experience of colorism in their relationships, careers and everyday life.
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Are computers killing the mystery of chess?
Chess is enjoying something of a renaissance, thanks to the Netflix series The Queen's Gambit – along with it being a game well-suited to Covid lockdowns.Yet many chess-lovers contend its lure is simultaneously being killed off by...
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How 'voodoo' became a metaphor for evil
Voodoo' has come to represent something evil when it appears in popular culture. 'Black magic', witchcraft – it's always portrayed as something to be feared. But in reality, Vodou, as it's correctly written, is an official religion...
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Why are period dramas so white?
Have you ever noticed that in film and on TV, period dramas tend to have almost entirely white casts? It’s almost as if, at least in film and TV land, black people do not feature in British history at all. The Guardian’s Josh...
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Why the first US cowboys were black
Historians estimate that one in four cowboys were African American, though you’d never guess because the conventional Hollywood image of a cowboy is a white man. Black cowboys have been written out of history, along with the original...
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The black art: wet plate collodion photography
Photographer Adrian Cook uses one of the oldest photographic processes to make unique images on aluminium plates. Guardian Australia's picture editor, Jonny Weeks, joins him in his portable darkroom for a shoot on Sydney Harbour. Cook...
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Being childfree: five women on why they chose not to have kids
As part of the Guardian's Childfree series, five women discuss why having children isn't for them – and how others perceive them as a result. 'There's no wrong way to be a woman,' says Sabrina, 25
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The ASMR videos that give YouTube viewers 'head orgasms
Online videos of soothing sounds known as ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) are increasingly popular. Fans enjoy the relaxing effects of these ‘head orgasms’. Here, the makers of ASMR YouTube channels including WhisperAudios,...
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Inside America's most extreme haunted house experience
McKamey Manor is one of the most extreme haunted house experiences in the US. Located in Russ McKamey’s San Diego backyard, the full ‘haunt’ lasts eight hours, yet no one has managed to complete it. McKamey has amassed a cult following...
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Run the code: is algorave the future of dance music?
By building up tracks through the manipulation of programming code – and pairing them with visuals also made on the fly – algorave producers are among the underground's most dextrous and daring work. Iman Amrani heads to Sheffield to...
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After you: the psychology of queues and how to beat them - video explainer
Queues are simple: you join at the back and wait your turn. But there's a whole branch of psychology devoted to studying how they work. Wimbledon publishes a guidebook on how to queue and major brands are obsessed with stopping you...
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Germany: What lies ahead is the past
A Neanderthal walks us through the passage of time to predict the future using the lessons of the past. Part of 'Europeans', an original drama series where seven writers from seven countries have created fictional scripts showing a...
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There's a lot of power in being young': Hamilton lead actor
Jamael Westman, the lead actor in the West End production of Hamilton, talks to the Guardian's Iman Amrani backstage at the Victoria Palace Theatre, discussing the power of youth to make change, whether Hamilton is part of a wider 'black...
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Life and death on billionaires' superyachts
The Guardian is granted exclusive access to some of the latest superyachts in Monaco. But what is life really like for the young people serving billionaires in the sun? We hear from a mother whose son died while he was working onboard a...
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I feel so guilty': Muslim women discuss removing their hijab at work
Following the ruling by the European court of justice to allow employers to ban religious symbols in the workplace, three Muslim women in Spain, The Netherlands and the UK talk about their experiences of looking for work while wearing a...