Race Matters
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Texas Student Says Teacher Gave White Students the Go-Ahead to Use the N-Word
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: A lot of white teachers have no business whatsoever teaching Black students. A Black mother in San Marcos, Texas, has filed a complaint with the San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District over an incident involving her daughter and a teacher who allegedly told her white students…
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Tennessee Commission Votes to Remove Bust of KKK Leader Nathan Bedford Forrest From the State Capitol
Today in news that makes you go “Why did it take Black death for this to happen?” the Tennessee Historical Commission voted 25-1 to remove a bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest—the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan—from the state capitol. The Tennessean reports that the effort to remove the bust began last summer…
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University of South Alabama Professors on Leave Over Picture With Noose and Whip at Halloween: ‘This Attempt at Humor Clearly Failed’
Three professors at the University of South Alabama are facing heat for what increasingly appears to be something a disturbing segment of American educators enjoy practicing: racism. As reported by CNN, Bob Wood, Alex Sharland and Teresa Weldy, all professors at the university, have been placed on leave after pictures of them wearing slavery-themed Halloween…
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Inauguration Poet Amanda Gorman Tweets About Recent Racial Profiling Experience With Security Guard Outside her Apartment
National Youth Poet Laureate, inauguration show-stealer and 2019 honoree for The Root’s Young Futurists (yes, that was a humble brag) Amanda Gorman knows that her new-found fame won’t protect her from the ramifications of being Black in America. What’s the old saying? “Perform for the new president on Monday, earn a modeling career on Tuesday,…
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Creighton Basketball Coach Greg McDermott Suspended for Telling Players to 'Stay on the Plantation'
It’s often said that pain and laughter have a symbiotic relationship. And if anybody knows about using humor to anesthetize the bullshit we endure on a daily basis, it’s Black folks. That’s why all I could do was laugh out loud when I heard about what white-ass Creighton basketball coach Greg McDermott said to his…