Race Matters
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Woman Studying Outside Grocery Store Attacked by Drunken Racist
A woman who was minding her own business outside a West Hollywood, Calif., grocery store was verbally and physically attacked by a drunken racist who hurled slurs at her. According to CBSLA, Angela Jefferson was studying and listening to music at 2:30 p.m on Tuesday outside of Pavillions store when an unidentified man sitting at…
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#SummerJobWhileBlack: Child Gets Cops Called on Him for Delivering Newspapers
For many kids and their families, summer jobs are a rite of passage: a way of imparting lessons about responsibility and hard work, and finally having a response to the age-old parental question, “you have McDonald’s money?” But one Ohio family says their summer job instead turned into a lesson on racial profiling. As WABC…
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Philly Police Department Seeks to End Implicit Bias With a Field Trip to a Black Museum
Every time there is an incident involving excessive use of force by the police against a black person, there’s a public outcry for change and reform. We want heads to roll. We want officers held accountable and punished. We take to the streets. We protest. We write editorials and articles and commentary on the current…
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This Is the America White People Wished For. This Is the America White People Want
Since the 2016 presidential election, I have read and I have heard from people—mostly white but some nonwhite—that it’s unfair to generalize about white people just because Donald Trump is now our president. The rush to defend themselves has been so unceasing that #NotAllWhitePeople has become a popular and synopsizing shorthand for that collection of…
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White Driver Who Fatally Struck Black Man, Called Him Racial Slur After Death, Cleared of All Fault in Collision
A white driver who struck and killed a black Louisiana motorist who stopped to pick up debris off the roadway has been cleared of all wrongdoing in the fatal collision, state police said in a news release. This is despite the callousness that 18-year-old Matthew M. Martin allegedly showed after the crash, sending Snapchat messages…
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'We've Had Problems With Your Kind Before': Black Frat Files Racial-Discrimination Lawsuit Against Alabama Restaurant
A black fraternity filed a lawsuit in federal court last week, accusing a Tuscaloosa, Ala., restaurant of racial discrimination after they were denied the opportunity to rent an event space because, as the restaurant put it, “We’ve had problems with your kind before.” The incident actually occurred back in February and now the Tuscaloosa alumni…
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#EatingOutWhileBlack: Subway Employee Calls 911 on Black Family Because She Thought They Would Rob Her
Add eating out as a family on your way back from vacation to the list of things that black people can’t seem to do in peace. A family of seven who stopped at a Subway in Coweta County, Ga., on Monday to eat dinner said that they had the police called on them while they…
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#RidingWhileBlack: Former Teen Vogue Editor Says an Uber Driver Assaulted, Called 911 on Her
This is America. For scores of black women here—there is always gendered and/or racial violence lurking around the corner. Fortunately, some black women, like former Teen Vogue editor and current media maven Elaine Welteroth, have a huge platform and friends in high places. And because Welteroth does have those things, perhaps her story will inspire…
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Gang of White Thugs Hurl Slurs at Black Mom, Smash Her Car Window, Yet Somehow No One Went to Jail or Even Had a Damn Mugshot Taken
This is America–and over in Connecticut, a mother is telling her story after she and her toddler were attacked by a racist gang of thugs. Thaniyyah Hutchinson, 37, was driving home late on Sunday night when she saw the group of five white men and women beating up a black man on the street. “They…