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Collected Item: “Tweet Changes Headline”

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Tweet Changes Headline

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images

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

Language is changing to be more people focused. This has happened in several arenas including incarceration. Instead of calling people inmates, prisoners, or convicts there is a movement to change the language to a people first option such as incarcerated person. One activist, Adnan Khan, of Restore Justice, a California based nonprofit seeking to change the criminal justice system, saw his Tweet about people first language cause the Los Angeles Times to change their headline.

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Tweet, social media, social justice, incarceration, language, murder, violent crime

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https://twitter.com/akhan1437/status/1292862828303376393

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Adnan Khan

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2020-08-10
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