racism
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Iowa Man Says He Was Racially Profiled by Old Navy Employees Who Didn’t Believe He Purchased the Jacket He Walked Into the Store Wearing
A black man from Iowa is accusing employees at the West Des Moines Old Navy of racial profiling after he says they didn’t believe that he had already purchased the jacket he walked into the store wearing. James Conley III shared a picture and four videos on his Facebook page Tuesday evening, expressing his frustration…
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Is It Safe Now to Talk About How the Congressional Black Caucus’ State of the Union ‘Protest’ Was Just Kente Cloth Cosplay?
I was on a flight from Washington, D.C., to Pittsburgh during the State of the Union, so I missed the entire thing. Actually, “missed,” in this context, is somewhat misleading. Because even if I had been able to watch it, I probably wouldn’t have. Because the absurd theater of what happens when President Donald Trump…
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Judge of Characters: Inequality for All, Especially in Hollywood
While many people may have heard Mo’Nique’s “cries” about the gender and color bias in Hollywood and rolled their eyes, there were others of us who wholeheartedly agreed with her. Inequality reigns supreme in Hollywood. It’s the reason Jessica Chastain helped Octavia Spencer negotiate a higher salary. It’s the reason a very white Scarlett Johansson…
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Watch: Is Racism Turning Teens Into Smokers?
Racism is bad for you. Surprise! Honestly, most research that surfaces about the harmful effects of racism leaves the majority of us unimpressed and unsurprised. It’s been proved that experiencing racism is tied to stress, heart disease, pregnancy complications and probably everything else you can think of that can lead to death or a lower…
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Want to Be a Better White Person? Learn How to Be a Guest
My first (and only) visit to the National Museum of African American History and Culture almost didn’t happen. My wife and I drove to Washington, D.C., after biking from Pittsburgh to Cumberland, Md., on a four-day and 150-mile trek that I still plan to write about eventually, but remain too traumatized by to write about…
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Alabama High School Teacher Admits to Using Racial Slur Because Students Were Playing Tupac in Class
A teacher at a high school in Alabama was put on administrative leave with pay after fully admitting to using a racial slur during class last week. According to AL.com, Hoover High School Superintendent Kathy Murphy confirmed that the teacher, identified as Teddie Butcher, admitted to using the word “nigger” while asking students to turn…
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Fear of an Angry Black Woman: Why Mo’Nique Was Right
Whether or not you decided to pull out your spreadsheet and add Netflix to the infinitely long list of things on the black boycott list, including Pepsi, the NFL, SheaMoisture, H&M and Cracker Barrel (to be fair, I don’t think Cracker Barrel did anything racist, but every time I go there, it just feels like…
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Watch: Symone Sanders Says This Isn’t the 1st Time We’ve Had a Racist President
Your president, Donald Trump, allegedly made a few unsavory (read: racist) comments regarding Haiti, African countries and pretty much any immigrant of color, calling their home countries “shithole countries.” While many people were shocked by his blatant racism, there are more of us who already knew of his racism. And, even further, there are people…
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High School Principal Retires After 40 Years After Racist Rant Caught on Video
Jay Brennan, the principal of Bishop Hendricken High School for 40-years, announced his retirement after administrators of the Catholic all-boys school in Warwick, R.I., were given a video clip that showed him making racist and anti-Semitic slurs. A short video clip reportedly shows Brennan in his school office saying, “That way, I could take care…