Race Matters
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Black Man Fired From Home Depot for Standing Up to Racist Customer Offered His Job Back, But He's No Longer Interested
By now we should all know the story of Maurice Rucker, the 60-year-old Home Depot employee who was fired from his job at an Albany, N.Y., store after he responded to the racist verbal abuse a customer lobbed his way. “If Trump wasn’t president, you wouldn’t even have a job,” the customer allegedly yelled at…
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#OwningABusinessWhileBlack: San Francisco Man Gets Accused of Breaking into His Own Shop
It was the kind of shop that fits right into the San Francisco landscape: Gourmonade, a small, high-end lemonade shop which recently opened in San Francisco’s Mission District. But the shop’s black owner, Vicktor Stevenson, says he’s been dogged by racist acts against him and the shop even before he opened. The worst of these…
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Home Depot Reverses Course and Offers Employee Fired for Responding to Customer's Racist Rant His Job Back [Updated]
Updated: Saturday, July 21, 2018, 8:40 a.m. EST: Maurice Rucker has gotten his job back, but if you’re looking for a way to reach out and personally support him there is a GoFundMe campaign running in his honor with the goal of raising $5,000 for Rucker. GoFundMe informed The Root that they are coordinating with…
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City of Clayton, Mo., Apologizes to 10 Black Students Wrongly Accused of Dining and Dashing
City officials of Clayton, Mo., are finally issuing a formal apology after police officers wrongly accused 10 black Washington University students of dining and dashing at a local IHOP. On Thursday, City Manager Craig Owens and Police Chief Kevin Murphy met with some of the students who were involved in the controversial encounter, where they…
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White Detroit Business Owner Spits on Black Man Working Security at Event Over Parking Dispute
The white owner of a Detroit business is issuing an apology a little too late after spitting on a young black man who was coordinating parking and working security at an event over some issues with parking. These ignorant trolls never learn. The incident all started on Tuesday when Robert Stanzler, the owner of the…
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'We Don't Tip Terrorist': Customer Banned from Texas Restaurant after Leaving Server Racist Note
A customer is no longer welcome at a Texas steakhouse after leaving a server no tip and a racist message. Khalil Cavil shared a picture of the note left on the customer’s bill that he got on Saturday night on Facebook. The customer at the Saltgrass Steak House in Odessa had circled Khalil’s name, left…
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'I Thought It Would Be My Last Day of the World': Teens Speak Out After Being Held at Gunpoint By Cops
A group of boys who were detained by police officers last week told reporters about the harrowing incident that included racial slurs, cops pointing guns at teenagers and the unsolved mystery of a 911 call. On Wednesday, Brianna Lindell posted a video to her Facebook page of Minnesota Park Police detaining four teenagers at Minnehaha…
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Warrant Issued for 16-Year-Old Accused of Throwing Objects, Hurling Racial Slurs at Black Tennessee Cyclist [Updated]
Updated: Tuesday, July 17, 2018; 3:15p.m. EDT: Chattanooga, Tenn., police have tracked down the driver of the vehicle from which a passenger allegedly threw bottles and cans at a black cyclist. According to WRCBTV, the driver acknowledged that the incident occurred when questioned by police and identified the passenger who is accused of throwing items…
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Police Falsely Accuse Black Students of Dining-and-Dashing at Clayton, Mo., IHOP [Updated]
Updated: Tuesday, July 17, 2018; 2:01 EDT: Seems as if Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and the city of Clayton, Mo., are not agreeing as to what went down earlier this month when Clayton police stopped 10 black students and falsely accusing them of leaving a local IHOP without paying. According to the St.…