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The National Archives has added a 'harmful language alert' label on the nation's founding documents including the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence as part of a new 'anti-racism' policies put in place by a task force.... ...Earlier this year, the task force produced a 100-page report blasting its own headquarters' Rotunda for 'structural racism' over paintings it displays which are said to depict the United States' white founding fathers in too positive a light. According to the authors, the Rotunda's famed murals depicting scenes such as the sighting of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution are insufficiently tempered with...

As the US continues to reassess its relationship to racism, offensive sports team and school names have changed. Up next? Bird names. Bird Names for Birds is a grassroots initiative aiming to change eponymous common names of birds, specifically in North America, arguing that many have been named after problematic people.... ...On Tuesday, there was another step forward. The AOS announced a new ad hoc committee that would make recommendations for guidelines on how to identify and change "harmful English bird names," ...