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The gender gap just got a little smaller. Thanks to the fourth annual Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon,over 6,500 women artists have new or expanded Wikipedia entries.Across over 200 events held around the world in March, Womens History Month, 2,500 participants did their part to fight the Wikipedia gender gapby improving online resources about women artists.

The edit-a-thon was founded in part to increase female editorship on the site, in response to a 2011 survey that found that that less than 10 percent of contributors were women. According to the event organizers and Art+Feminism, this years initiative nearly doubled the impact of the 2016 iteration.

We were heartened by the response to our call to arms to fight against disinformation and fake news with facts, said Art+Feminism organizers Sin Evans, Jacqueline Mabey, McKensie Mack, and Michael Mandiberg. We continue to be inspired by all the dedicated folks who make room in their busy schedules to share skills and improve a collectively held resource like Wikipedia.

Edit-a-thon events were held at some of the worlds biggest art institutions, including New Yorks Museum of Modern Art; the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC; and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Alternative organizations such as the Open Foundation West Africa in Accra and Transgender Europe in Berlin also took part.

Divya Mehra, Dangerous Women (Blaze of Glory), 2017. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Among the women now represented on Wikipedia for the first time are Brazilian Constructivist Lygia Clark and Hannah Black, one of the loudest voices in the recent Whitney Biennial controversy over Dana Schutzs painting of the mutilated body of Emmett Till, a young African American boy who was lynched in 1955.

This years edit-a-thon also saw Art+Feminism debut its Call to Action Art Commission program, which selects an artist to create a Creative Commons licensed artwork. The inaugural commission,Dangerous Women (Blaze of Glory), byDivya Mehra, features the word edit written across a gas can, pointing to the combustible power of expanding womens presence in Wikipedia.

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An aide to the Rev. Al Sharpton raged against the NYPD police escort that slain jogger Karina Vetranos parents received to and from Queens court Tuesday for the arraignment of their daughters accused killer.

How dare [Mayor] de Blasio and the Police Commissioner allow the Police Department to protect this family? seethed the Rev. Kevin McCall of Sharptons National Action Network, after Chanel Lewis pleaded not guilty to various charges, including first-degree murder.

McCall had escorted Lewis distressed mother, Veta, to the proceeding.

We had taxpayer dollars used in the courtroom sitting as we speak, he griped. We had officers in the courtroom protecting the family.

We know they lost a loved one, McCall said of the Vetranos.But Chanel is the wrong one fingered for the murder.

Lewiss father Richard was accompanied by state Assemblyman Charles Barron.

Vetranos parents Cathie and Phil were still crying after the hearing as they walked down the block and got into a cruiser.

Other friends and family of the 30-year-old beauty piled into a police van.

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Oh, Zara.Here we go again.

The retailer, a repeat offender when it comes to offensive productsand advertising, is under fire yet again for carrying a skirt embroidered with a character resembling Pepe the Frog.

The cartoon amphibian has become a symbol of hate after being coopted by anti-Semites and white supremacists.

Pepe was originallyan innocent stoner charactercreated by artist Matt Furie in 2005, but was turned into amascot for the alt-righton websites like 4chan and Reddit and is listed as a hate symbol by the Anti-Defamation League.

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Though the ADL notes that because so many Pepe the Frog memes are not bigoted in nature, it is important to examine use of the meme only in context, its shocking Zara didnt see the skirt as problematic. The item marks yet another blunder for the hugely successful yet troubled clothing chain, reminding us of the time in 2014 it sold pajamas that looked exactly like concentration camp uniforms.

Zara pulled the skirt from its website,but not before Twitter got a look.

Some people, though, are still grappling with the fact that a cartoon frog ever became so controversial in the first place.

The skirt appeared to be styled with the Zaras Nope denim jacket, which is a pretty perfect way to sum up our feelings about the whole thing.

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In an email to The Huffington Post, a Zara spokeswoman stated that the image was not intended to look like Pepe.

The skirt is part of the limited Oil-On-Denim collection which was created through collaborations with artists and is only available in selected markets, she said. The designer of the skirt is Mario de Santiago, known online as Yimeisgreat. Mario explores social interactions through his work and in his own words, The idea came from a wall painting I drew with friends some years ago. There is absolutely no link to the suggested theme.

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That cartoon frog is more sinister than you might realize.

September 12, 2016 by Elizabeth Chan

Over the weekend, Donald Trumps son and one of his closest advisers posted an odd photo on their social media accounts:

This raised some important questions.

Thats Pepe. Hes a symbol associated with white supremacy.

Thats right.

Heres the short version: Pepe is a cartoon frog who began his internet life as an innocent meme enjoyed by teenagers and pop stars alike.

But in recent months, Pepes been almost entirely co-opted by the white supremacists who call themselves the alt-right. Theyve decided to take back Pepe by adding swastikas and other symbols of anti-semitism and white supremacy.

We basically mixed Pepe in with Nazi propaganda, etc. We built that association, one prominent white supremacist told the Daily Beast.

Trump has retweeted his white supremacist supporters with regularity, but the connection between the alt-right and his campaign continues to strengthen. Trump has been slow to disavow support from Ku Klux Klansmen and white supremacy groups, and he recently hired Breitbart.coms Steve Bannon as his campaign CEO (and Bannon isnt shy about the fact that his news organization is the platform for the alt-right).

Now white supremacists have given Pepe the cartoon frog some Trump hairand the candidates own son says he is honored to be grouped with him.

Yes.

Nope.

Notably, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who believes the government was behind the 9/11 (and that Newtown was completely fake), and Breitbarts Milo Yiannopoulos, whose racism and bigotry is so egregious that Twitter banned him from using their site.

Yes.

Vote.

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