Race Matters
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Navy Investigating After Noose Found in Black Sailor’s Bed Aboard Naval Ship; Fellow Soldier Reportedly Admits to Doing It, Says It Was a Joke
It’s disturbing that nooses, which are a well-known symbol of racial terrorism and violence in America, continue to be leveraged to terrorize Black people today. On Jan. 26, a sailor aboard the USS Lake Champlain in San Diego was the latest Black person to encounter a noose at his place of work—the U.S. Navy. According…
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Louisiana Family Denied Burial Plot for Black Man at 'Whites Only' Cemetery…In 2021
How racist do you have to be to tell a widow you won’t bury her Black husband because a decades-old law says the cemetery is whites only? A Louisiana woman said she met someone who was just that racist and was shocked at how indifferent that person was in denying her late husband the right…
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2 CBS Execs Accused of Making Racist and Sexist Comments, Cultivating ‘A Hostile Work Environment’
Two CBS local television executives have been placed on administrative leave after the National Association of Black Journalists demanded they be fired because they are allegedly a couple of bigots who have “cultivated a hostile work environment” by making racist and sexist comments and by blocking the hiring and retaining of Black journalists for racist…
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California Target Apologizes After Black Teens Were Wrongfully Accused of Theft, Handcuffed and Detained
Racial profiling often seems like some kind of perverse rite of passage that young Black people have to go through in America (and likely, everywhere else in the world where Black people exist) as a part of growing up. A California Target has apologized after two Black teenagers were handcuffed and another was detained in…