racism
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Adam Purinton, Suspect in Kan. Bar Shooting, Allegedly Screamed ‘Get Out of My Country’
The suspect in a Wednesday-night triple shooting that left one person dead has been identified as 51-year-old Adam Purinton of Olathe, Kan. Purinton allegedly told a bartender in Clinton, Mo., that he had killed two Middle Eastern men before he was arrested about five hours after the shooting, authorities said. According to the Kansas City…
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Sage Steele Keeps Sage Steele-ing; Claims Worst Racism She’s Received Is From Blacks
Sage Steele just won’t stop Sage Steele-ing. That’s right, the ESPN anchor has become a verb because she has insisted on antagonizing black people as one of the loudest voices of respectability politics. For a better look at how Sage Steele became Sage Steele-ing, please see a list of her transgressions below. Sage Steele-ing is…
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‘Kill All N–gers’: Va. University Investigating Racist, Hate-Filled Video
A Virginia university has launched an investigation into a disgusting, hateful video that was posted to YouTube but has since been removed because of a violation of the video-sharing site’s standards. In the video, a woman can be seen wearing a Donald Trump mask; dancing to music that promotes lynching, white power and the Ku…
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Conn. Interracial Couple Refuse to Remove Racial Slur on Door Until Cops Investigate
It’s been a month since someone spray-painted the word “nigger” on an interracial couple’s home in Stamford, Conn., over the Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend, to be precise. However, the couple have refused to remove it, saying that authorities are not properly investigating the incident. And now the couple have received a blight citation…
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Maybe the Earth Is Flat
This past weekend during the National Basketball Association’s All-Star festivities, Cleveland Cavaliers basketball star Kyrie Irving appeared on the NBA podcast Road Tripping With RJ & Channing and said, “The Earth is flat. The Earth is flat. … It’s right in front of our faces. I’m telling you, it’s right in front of our faces.…
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Report: Hate Groups in the US Have Increased for 2nd Consecutive Year
The number of hate groups in the United States rose for the second year in a row in 2016, a result of the radical right being energized by the candidacy of Donald Trump, according to a report released Wednesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Anti-Muslim hate groups showed the most dramatic growth, nearly tripling…
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Stephen Miller, the Other Big Racist in the White House
White House Senior Policy Adviser Stephen Miller has the charm of Hannibal Lector and the ideology of a neo-Nazi who prefers to sit in business class. While Miller’s name was dropped throughout the presidential campaign, it was only last weekend that the other big racist in the White House really made his presence felt after…
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Black 2nd-Graders at L.A. Elementary School Get Math Homework With a Word Problem About Slavery
Parents of students at Windsor Hills Elementary School in Los Angeles are outraged after second-graders at the school received a math homework assignment last week that contained a word problem with racial undertones. NBC News reports that students received the following word problem as part of their math homework: The master needed 192 slaves to…
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Geraldo Rivera Quits Yale After University Removes Slavery Supporter’s Name
Geraldo Rivera, former talk show host, current Fox News contributor and, most importantly, the man who didn’t find anything in Al Capone’s vault, decided to resign from his voluntary position at Yale University after the school decided to change the name of a residential college that honored a slavery supporter. Rivera was an associate fellow…
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Watch: Baltimore, Freddie Gray and the Struggle of Race in America
Peabody Spotlight is a digital series produced by the Peabody Media Center at the University of Georgia. Each part of the series draws from the vast Peabody Awards archives, the third-largest repository of audiovisual materials in the United States. Peabody Spotlight will focus on significant societal issues as represented through the storytelling of Peabody winners…