Sudhana Singh, the former headmistress of a United Kingdom primary school, told an employment tribunal that parents worked to oust her because of her ethnicity, the Telegraph reports. She said she experienced “deeply rooted racist view” when she took over, and things only got worse when she began a campaign to address the bigotry she…

When a word is combined with negativity, hate and exclusion, it can quickly transform into a slur. The black community knows all too well how that works. Today ColorLines has a report suggesting that “illegal,” as it applies to undocumented immigrants, just may be going the way of the n-word among Latinos. From ColorLines: According…

Slate reports that at the South by Southwest tech conference this week, New York-based advertising agency BBH Labs introduced a trial run of its new project, called “Homeless Hotspots.” Here’s how it works: Homeless people from a local shelter walk around carrying MiFi devices (techspeak for mobile WiFi hotpots) and wearing T-shirts with this message:…

When the Work to Ride program founded the nation’s first black polo team in 1999, the goal was simply to help disadvantaged kids from Philadelphia improve themselves through activities centered around horsemanship, equine sports and education. Thirteen years later the team, made up of kids who defy the sport’s privileged stereotype, has captured a national…

The introduction of a far-reaching wave of state laws that will make voting in the 2012 election much harder than it’s ever been in the past has been characterized as a “war on black voters” and likened to Jim Crow. Much of the legislation is being challenged in the courts, but meanwhile, black churches are…