race
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La. House Candidate Caught in Blackface in Racist Tiger Woods Costume
It’s almost March, but the ghosts of Halloweens past still haunt us. Every year, without fail, particularly on Halloween, there is that one (usually more, let’s be honest) white person who seems incapable of coming up with a creative costume of a black individual without resorting to blackface. By now we shouldn’t be ignorant of…
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"Get Out" Takes Cultural Appropriation To The Cultural Harvest Level
It seems like every other day a new initiative or podcast or deep-dive interactive project is launched in an effort to shed some understanding on race in America. Well look no further, because Jordan Peele’s Get Out is a capital “A” accurate understanding of race in America and the not even slightly exaggerated psychosis it…
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More Than 100 Headstones Vandalized at Philadelphia Jewish Cemetery
As the wave of hatred continues to pass over the country, targeting minorities of every race, gender, sexuality and creed, another Jewish cemetery, this time in Philadelphia, has been vandalized, with more than 100 headstones being damaged. According to the Associated Press, a man visiting the Mount Carmel cemetery called police at 9:40 a.m. Sunday…
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Adam Purinton, Suspect in Kan. Bar Shooting, Allegedly Screamed ‘Get Out of My Country’
The suspect in a Wednesday-night triple shooting that left one person dead has been identified as 51-year-old Adam Purinton of Olathe, Kan. Purinton allegedly told a bartender in Clinton, Mo., that he had killed two Middle Eastern men before he was arrested about five hours after the shooting, authorities said. According to the Kansas City…
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‘Kill All N–gers’: Va. University Investigating Racist, Hate-Filled Video
A Virginia university has launched an investigation into a disgusting, hateful video that was posted to YouTube but has since been removed because of a violation of the video-sharing site’s standards. In the video, a woman can be seen wearing a Donald Trump mask; dancing to music that promotes lynching, white power and the Ku…
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Conn. Interracial Couple Refuse to Remove Racial Slur on Door Until Cops Investigate
It’s been a month since someone spray-painted the word “nigger” on an interracial couple’s home in Stamford, Conn., over the Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend, to be precise. However, the couple have refused to remove it, saying that authorities are not properly investigating the incident. And now the couple have received a blight citation…
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Watch: Baltimore, Freddie Gray and the Struggle of Race in America
Peabody Spotlight is a digital series produced by the Peabody Media Center at the University of Georgia. Each part of the series draws from the vast Peabody Awards archives, the third-largest repository of audiovisual materials in the United States. Peabody Spotlight will focus on significant societal issues as represented through the storytelling of Peabody winners…
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Emmett Till’s Family Calls for New Investigation Into 1955 Murder
Relatives of Emmett Till—the 14-year-old Chicago boy who was murdered in Mississippi in 1955, triggering the civil rights movement—are asking for the teen’s case to be reinvestigated after a key witness admitted to lying about the teen’s alleged words and actions before his brutal murder. Two of Emmett’s cousins, Wheeler Parker and Deborah Watts, said…