Tag: Racism

New Survey Reveals 25 Percent Of Black Women Were Denied Job Interviews Because Of Their Hair

Photo: stevewhitefilms (Shutterstock) According to a new survey commissioned by LinkedIn and Dove, a shocking amount of Black women revealed that hair discrimination has prevented them from obtaining professional opportunities. Exactly 1,000 Black women, ages 25 to 64, participated in the CROWN Research Study. CC Off English Nearly 66% of the women polled claimed they […]

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Who Said It: Tucker Carlson or George Wallace?

Tucker Carlson uses his nightly Fox News show to peddle some of the vilest bouts of racist conspiracy theories of twenty-first-century politics. As we’ve watched his show, we realized he often doesn’t sound all that different from one of the defining segregationists of twentieth-century politics, Alabama governor and presidential candidate George Wallace. See how well […]

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Black Man Who Spoke Up at Critical Race Theory Workshop Asked To Be Removed

It seems that the national conversation surrounding critical race theory won’t end until it’s banned from every school, or they silence everyone that thinks to bring it up. CC Off English On Wednesday, the Temecula Valley Unified School District organized a critical race theory workshop in California. A Black man who shared his thoughts with […]

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White Fragility author Says People of Color Need To Say Bye To White People!

Photo: NBC/NBCU Photo Bank (Getty Images) “White Fragility” author Robin DiAngelo has the internet in shambles after a clip from a panel she was on went viral. The webinar, called “Racial Justice: The Next Frontier,” happened on March 1. DiAngelo insisted that people of color should build community with each other—not white people—and the statement […]

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Op-Ed: The State Takeover Of Houston Schools Is Influenced By Racism And Political Power

NewsOne Featured Video Source: FRANCOIS PICARD / Getty When the state of Texas took over Houston’s public school district on March 15, 2023, it made the district one of more than 100 school districts in the nation that have experienced similar state takeovers during the past 30 years. The list includes New York City, Chicago, […]

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Debate Over New Ethnic Studies Film Course Has Some Saying It’s a Little Too Close to CRT

Photo: Klaus Vedfelt (Getty Images) There’s a heated debate happening around a new course coming to the Carlsbad High School Film Academy. After a March 8 meeting, the Carlsbad Unified School District voted unanimously in favor of introducing a Film Academy Ethnic Studies class to students in the 2023 – 2024 school year. And while […]

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A Viral Moment on the Definition of “Woke” Reveals All You Need To Know About the Right’s Attacks

This differs greatly from how the term was used in the early 20th century, as part of the Black struggle and calls for greater political and social consciousness. Since then, the term “staying woke” has come to refer to a broader awareness of one’s place within a system; some people have even used it in […]

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FBI Statistics Reveal Rise In Hate Crimes In 2021

Photo: Stuart Villanueva (AP) According to a newly revised report released Monday by the FBI, hate crimes increased almost 12 percent from 2020 to 2021. Numbers show that 12,411 people were reportedly the victims of hate crimes in 2021. Furthermore, 64.5 percent of them were attacked because of their ethnicity/race, 15.9 percent attacked for their […]

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U.S. Government is Looking to Update Racial and Ethnic Categories

Photo: Rawpixel.com (Shutterstock) Even though we’re only asked every four years, filling out a census form can be a pain in the ass. And if, like so many Americans these days, you check more than one racial/ethnic identity box, it can be downright confusing. Now, in light of the changing face of America, the government […]

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Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Deny Being Racist

This combination of photos shows, from left, Travis McMichael, William “Roddie” Bryan, and Gregory McMichael during their trial at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. Photo: AP File (AP) The three white men convicted in the lynching of Ahmaud Arbery in 2020 have filed appeals to have their federal hate crime charge overturned, per […]

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Racist Cross Burner Will Be Out of Prison As Soon as He Goes In

Screenshot: Mississippi Department of Corrections Axel C. Cox, 24, has been sentenced in the racially motivated cross burning from December 2020, according to an announcement from the Department of Justice. The department said his actions were a direct violation of the Fair Housing Act. CC Off English According to the DOJ, Cox admitted to gathering […]

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Here We Go Again: Brothers in Jussie Smollett Hoax Crime Case to Speak Out in New Docuseries

Jussie Smollett attends 2022 Atlanta Black Pride Weekend Film Festival- “B-Boy Blues” screening on September 3, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia.Photo: Prince Williams/Wireimage (Getty Images) Just when I thought we’d seen or heard the last of the Curious Case of Jussie Smollett and the Fake Hate Crime, it looks as if it’s about to rear its […]

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Black Exec In NYC Tells of His Kids Enduring Racist Bullying in the School

A “New York City Board of Education” placard place on the front of P.S. 234 Independence School in lower Manhattan in New York, NY, September 4, 2020. Photo: Anthony Behar/Sipa USA (AP) At Peck Slip School, students and staff are expected to follow four basic rules: be safe, be kind, be helpful and be your […]

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Republican Congressman Mike Collins Blames Diversity for Norfolk Southern Train Derailments

The statement failed to specifically address Walgreens’ earlier announcement that it would not dispense the abortion pill in 21 states where Republican attorneys general had threatened legal action. Abortion is still legal in more than half of those states. Of the group, Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and West Virginia […]

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Documents Reveal Why a Vegas Man Threatened another Black Mass Shooting [Update]

Updated as of 3/2/2023 at 8:30 a.m. ET. A Las Vegas man embarked on a violent, racist rampage, threatening to carry out another Black mass shooting all because he lost his job, per Las Vegas Review-Journal. Detectives found his erratic behavior began the month he was terminated. Then, suddenly, Black people were his problem. CC […]

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Vegas Man Arrested after Plotting Another Black Mass Shooting

Las Vegas Metro police arrested a white man accused of speeding toward a Black family while yelling racial slurs at them outside a hotel, per 8 News Now. He was arrested following the incident, however, he’s facing several charges for previous instances of making racially motivated threats. CC Off English Hunter Holman, 27, has a […]

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“Dilbert” Creator Scott Adams Isn’t the Only Racist Cartoonist. Here Are More Who History Will Never Forget

Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip Dilbert, talks about his work at his studio in Dublin, Calif., on Oct. 26, 2006.Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez (AP) Scott Adams’ recently had his “Dilbert” cartoon pulled from newspaper circulation due to his racist comments against Black people. After a Rasmussen Reports poll allegedly found that around 26% […]

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Along With “Dilbert” Creator Scott Adams, Here Are Some Other Racist Cartoonists

Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip Dilbert, talks about his work at his studio in Dublin, Calif., on Oct. 26, 2006.Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez (AP) Scott Adams’ recently had his “Dilbert” cartoon pulled from newspaper circulation due to his racist comments against Black people. After a Rasmussen Reports poll allegedly found that around 26% […]

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“Dilbert” Creator Scott Adams Isn’t the Only Racist Cartoonist. Here Are More History Will Never Forget

Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip Dilbert, talks about his work at his studio in Dublin, Calif., on Oct. 26, 2006.Photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez (AP) Scott Adams’ recently had his “Dilbert” cartoon pulled from newspaper circulation due to his racist comments against Black people. After a Rasmussen Reports poll allegedly found that around 26% […]

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“Dilbert” Cartoonist Goes On Racist Rant and Gets Dropped From Various Newspapers

Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip Dilbert, poses for a portrait with the Dilbert character in his studio in Dublin, Calif., Oct. 26, 2006.Photo: MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ (AP) Scott Adams, the illustrator behind the “Dilbert” comic strip, has found himself in hot water after making inflammatory racist remarks. Apparently he has promoted right-wing ideologies […]

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Illuminating the successes and struggles of MIT Black history

When Victor Ransom ’42 arrived at MIT from New York City in 1941, he discovered a campus electrified by the war effort. People scurried between what he described as MIT’s “massive, unsympathetic buildings” as the campus underwent a transformation that took on new urgency after the attacks on Pearl Harbor that December. During his sophomore […]

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18 Racist Classroom Incidents That Will Make You SMH [Updated]

Photo: Inside Creative House (Shutterstock) Updated as of 2/25/2023 at 3:45 p.m. ET Within the past five years we’ve seen an exponential uptick in racism exposure. We cackled at racists being fired from their jobs or arrested for hate crimes and watched them make a fool of themselves on social media. However, the age group […]

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3 Questions: The power of music in advancing social justice

It Must Be Now! is an initiative created in response to the racial reckoning of 2020. Multiple events for the MIT community were held throughout 2021 and 2022, leading to an historic multidisciplinary concert in Kresge Auditorium in May 2022, featuring new works by composers Terri Lyne Carrington, Braxton Cook, and Sean Jones, whose creations […]

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Florida Republicans’ New Bill May Be the Biggest Attack on Academic Freedom Yet

On Monday, workers at Union Pacific announced an agreement between the company and the National Conference of Firemen and Oilers, or NCFO, and Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, or BRC. Effective April 1, the NCFO agreement prorates the deal to give workers three days of sick leave this year, and the regular four beginning in 2024; […]

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Students Across Florida Walk Out in Protest of Ron DeSantis

“…This would be up to red states to be able to choose to do something like that, so that their red states don’t get changed,” Greene continued. “Which is what’s happening, unfortunately, when Democrat voters leave their Democrat states and they take their Democrat votes with them.” Beyond being remarkably authoritarian, Greene’s comments don’t even […]

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How MIT helped young Roxbury photographers of the 1960s turn pro

Fifty years ago, Roxbury was the poorest neighborhood in Boston, just as it is now. Back then, its predominantly Black residents lived with intense and open racism. Hundreds of Roxbury buildings had been knocked down for a highway that was never built, leaving vacant lots. Nationally, the Vietnam War and the Black Power movement were […]

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Why Is Vivek Ramaswamy Even Running for President?

“…This would be up to red states to be able to choose to do something like that, so that their red states don’t get changed,” Greene continued. “Which is what’s happening, unfortunately, when Democrat voters leave their Democrat states and they take their Democrat votes with them.” Beyond being remarkably authoritarian, Greene’s comments don’t even […]

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Mock ‘George Floyd’ Reenactment at Portland School Swept Under the Rug

Photo: Ben Von Klemperer (Shutterstock) In mid-January, a Black West Sylvan Middle School student was forced to the ground and knelt on by two students who said they would “George Floyd” him. Portland Public Schools Superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero and the school board apologized a couple weeks too late for a despicable racist attack, per Oregon […]

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Tim Scott Compares Anti-Black Racism To Treatment Of ‘Second-Class Citizen’ Republicans

NewsOne Featured Video Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) delivers remarks at the Charleston County Republican Party’s Black History Month Banquet on February 16, 2023, in Charleston, South Carolina. | Source: Win McNamee / Getty Listen: I always thought Jason Whitlock and Candace Owens were the leading Sunken Place MVP candidates, with Ben Carson and Clarence Thomas […]

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Exonerated! Wrongly Convicted Black Folks Whose Names Have Been Cleared

UPDATED: 11:00 a.m. ET, Feb 16, 2023 Black people who were convicted of crimes they never actually committed. It’s a tragic story told time and time again. But have you heard the one about the Black man exonerated for his crimes? –Rarely.  Thankfully, in recent years more wrongly convicted Black men and Black women have […]

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