Race Matters
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Misty Copeland Discusses How Racial Justice Protests Are Waking the Dance World Up
Several cracks in the foundation of America have been uncovered during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as issues within the country’s healthcare and class systems. Especially in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death, racial inequality has become a huge topic across several fields and industries, such as the journalism/online media and the improv comedy spaces. Misty…
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Candace Owens, Jason Whitlock, John McWhorter, Sage Steele and the Myth of 'Questioning Blackness'
I am not real. I am a fictional character in a 244-year-old fairy tale called America. I am a bit player in the simplistic children’s adaptation of this story where all men are created equal in a land that offers liberty and justice for all. I overcome slavery and Jim Crow in the young adult…
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Players Dish on What It's Like to be Black in MLB: 'Black Players Have Always Felt That They Had to Conform'
I don’t really watch baseball, in part because there was plenty of racism surrounding my own experiences with the sport as a youth. And as it turns out, Major League Baseball isn’t much different, at least according to a new report from ESPN. Reporter Marly Rivera chopped it up with a few current and former…
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Virginia Police Launch Investigation Into KKK Flyers Found in Mailboxes Across Multiple Counties
Residents across the state of Virginia found flyers in or around their mailboxes sent by a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. The message on the flyers calls for “100% Americanism” and decries the number of white people who support the Black Lives Matter movement. Now, Virginia police are investigating the matter which stretches across…
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Viola Davis Opens Up About Police Brutality and Regretting The Help With Historic Vanity Fair Cover
Viola Davis radiates on the cover of Vanity Fair for its July/August 2020 edition. The Oscar, Emmy and Tony-winning actress discusses police brutality protests, the fight for equal pay as a Black thespian and much more. Dario Calmese shot the photos accompanying Davis’ feature, and made history in doing so. He is the first Black…
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White Radio Host Becomes Next Karen to Lose Her Job After Harassing Spanish-Speaking New Hampshire Workers
Is anybody else starting to get the feeling that some of these Karens are hopping aboard the “You ‘bout to lose yo’ job” train on purpose? Either a lot of white people have come up with a clever way to intentionally rid themselves of their employment, or they are so out of touch that they…
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Racist NFL Franchise Washington Redskins Dead at 87
During an interview with USA Today in 2013, Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder was defiant in his refusal to ever change the team’s name—so much so that he even used absolutes. “We’ll never change the name of the team,” Snyder said at the time. “It’s that simple. NEVER—you can use caps.” And for all intents…
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A List of Things Longer Than the Confederacy Was
1. The (still growing) gap between Anti and whatever Rihanna decides to release when she’s bored hawking drawers to thirsty Deltas. 2. The not-yet-produced comprehensive oral history of Shaun King’s greatest “investment opportunities.” 3. The (approximate) driving distance between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. 4. The stretch of time between middle and high school when I was…
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A Black Man Says He Was Nearly Lynched by 5 White Men in Indiana, No Arrests Have Been Made
So… Why does there always seem to be so much hesitation to arrest racists who attack Black people and call it vigilante work? It took nearly two months for George Zimmerman to be arrested for the killing of Trayvon Martin (and we all know how that turned out) and it took well over two months…
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Yeah, It's Time to Bury the Cutesy 'Karen' Nickname for Dangerous White Women
If the COVID-19 crisis hadn’t introduced zeitgeist-crashing terms like “coronavirus” and “social distancing” to our lexicon, “Karen” might have very well been the word of 2020. There have been explainers about it—one of which I wrote to distinguish it from “Becky.” There have been arguments over whether it’s racist (LOLOL) and misogynist (well…more on that…