Race Matters
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Ain’t Nothing Funny: Nassau County School District Says Video of White Students Using the N-Word, Wearing White Hood Was Meant to Be a ‘Joke’
The school district says they did not discipline the students because the video was taken during the summer, before the school year began.
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Head of Prep School Who Uninvited Nikole Hannah-Jones Is Taking a Leave of Absence
David Beare and the board of trustees say disinviting Hannah-Jones from the Massachusetts prep school was a “shameful mistake.”
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‘People Aren’t Going to Be Happy With It’: F1 Driver Lewis Hamilton Recalls Decision to Wear Breonna Taylor T-Shirt
The 36-year-old has used his platform to address issues impacting the Black community.
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Rosa Parks Got the Glory. Claudette Colvin Just Wants Her Record Expunged
Colvin was 15 when she refused to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery, Ala. bus in 1955, nine months before Parks sparked the Montgomery bus boycott.
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It’s Time to Officially Clear the Names of the ‘Groveland Four’
In 1949, three young Black men and a teenager were wrongfully accused of raping a white teen girl. Now, a state prosecutor wants to get the case dismissed.
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Statue Honoring Black Civil War Soldiers Erected Across From Confederate Monument in Tennessee
The statue is a part of an art initiative intended to tell the full story about slavery, Reconstruction and Jim Crow in Franklin, Tenn.
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‘It’s Gonna Blow the NBA World Up’: Phoenix Suns Owner Robert Sarver Might be the Next Contestant on That Summer Jam Screen
ESPN is reportedly about to drop a bombshell report accusing Sarver of racist and sexist behavior.
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A Black Man Was Profiled and Stopped by Police; Now a Vermont Town Has to Run Him $50,000
The Vermont Human Rights Commission determined that a white Chester police officer stopped Obadiah Jacobs because of his race.