14+ hour, 10+ min ago   (172+ words) Nearly 50 authors, commentators, and academics have dropped out of this year's Adelaide Festival in Australia after the Festival announced that they were canceling an appearance by Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah over "cultural sensitivity" concerns. The Palestinian-Australian academic was involved in multiple…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (880+ words) And that's all on top of her day job as director of policy and advocacy for 1Hood Media, a nonprofit devoted to "art, education, and social justice." But what a sense of humor can do is relieve some of the tension....