racial discrimination
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White Woman Calls Police on Bob Marley’s Granddaughter After She Didn’t Smile. Now the Filmmaker Wants Justice
After someone called the police, seven cop cars rolled up on a group of black filmmakers, including the granddaughter of Bob Marley, Donisha Prendergast. The group was renting an Airbnb in Rialto, Calif. Now they want justice. Prendergast recently spoke out at a New York press conference. “Just because I wasn’t bowed and handcuffed against…
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Toronto Chinatown Restaurant Forced to Pay $10,000 to Black Diner After Making Him Prepay for His Meal
A Toronto restaurant is being forced to cough up some serious cash to a black patron after it required him and three of his friends to pay in advance for their meals. The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal ruled that Hong Shing Chinese Restaurant violated the province’s human rights code and will have to pay Emile…
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Starbucks to Close All Stores Across the US for ‘Racial-Bias Education’ Training Following the Arrest of 2 Black Men
Starbucks is upping the ante (and perhaps trying to salvage whatever is left of its reputation) by closing more than 8,000 stores across the U.S. for an afternoon to train employees in racial bias. The decision comes after two black men were arrested inside a Philadelphia Starbucks, seemingly just for being black. According to the…
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Ex-Cincinnati Volleyball Player Says Coach Kicked Her Off Team Because Her ’Gram Posts Were ‘Too Sexy’
A former University of Cincinnati women’s volleyball player has filed a lawsuit against her old coach, charging that she repeatedly body-shamed her and then dropped her from the team because of Instagram photos that were deemed “too sexy.” Shalom Ifeanyi filed the lawsuit March 20 against her former coach, Molly Alvey, and Cincinnati’s executive senior…
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You Have to Be Perfect or Lucky (or Perfect and Lucky) to Buy a House If You’re Black
I’ve learned through age, maturity, meditation and Lisinopril to not allow myself to be bothered with certain things that might have irked me 10 or even five years ago. Basically I’m learning to give less fucks because fucklessness is a form of self-care for me. But there is (at least) one strain of conversation that…
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Black Nurse Who Found Photo of Noose Taped to Her Locker at Hawaii Hospital Awarded $3,800,000
It’s been some five years since Ellen Harris, a registered nurse at the Queen’s Medical Center in Hawaii, filed a lawsuit claiming that she was subject to racial discrimination and harassment while doing her job. Last week, a jury ruled in her favor, awarding her $3.8 million in damages as a result of her treatment.…
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Ohio College Students Say Restaurant Manager Demanded They Pay for Meal Up Front Because ‘You People Steal’: Report
As it turns out, black people really can’t seem to eat in peace sometimes. A group of college students in Ohio are the latest in the nation to accuse a dining establish of racial discrimination, or some sort of profiling, after a manager demanded that they pay for their meal up front because, you know,…
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Missing in Action: Black Designers
Here comes New York Fashion Week, again. Everything is about to change—or so it seems—as designers present fashion shows featuring clothes generally intended to break the rules. But one thing rarely, if ever, seems to change, and that’s the absence of black designers occupying top spots in the fashion industry. Freelance designer and journalist Kibwe…
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Racist, Anti-Semitic Flyers Found on Princeton Campus
For the second time this year, white supremacist flyers have appeared at Princeton University. It is unclear who’s responsible for posting the flyers, which were spotted on the New Jersey campus Monday, but they came in two varieties: the first, a personal attack against a Jewish resident of the city of Princeton; the second, an…