In the European Union, every language is an official language. Government officials speak in the official language of their country, and those comments are then translated into 22, soon to be 23, other languages. All of that costs $1.4 billion per year - and that total will increase when Croatian becomes an official language later this year.
The largest study so far to ask whether speaking two languages might delay the onset of dementia symptoms in bilingual patients as compared to monolingual patients has reported that bilingual patients suffer dementia onset an average of 4.5 years later than those who speak only a single language.
Pulitzer Prize winning author Toni Morrison,spoke about the controversy brewing after comments which questioned whether The Bluest Eye is appropriate to be on a suggested reading list for Ohio students.
Dark is Beautiful is an awareness campaign that seeks to draw attention to the unjust effects of skin colour bias and also celebrates the beauty and diversity of all skin tones.
Judith Thurman on the significance of Lupita Nyong'o's People magazine cover: "Women with strong African features and jet-black skin are, even today, with a black family in the White House, scarce in the pages of mainstream fashion magazines."
A Dior show last month was notable for its increased use of black models, but not much has changed five years after a Vogue article asked, "Is Fashion Racist?"