racism
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Unique Views, Episode 21: Why Are Black Women ‘Hidden Figures’?
I don’t hate my co-star and daughter in this podcast game, Ms. Patti Patti LaDanielle, aka Danielle Young, The Root’s social-content producer, but because of Donald Trump’s Russian-tainted presidential-election win, our relationship is strained. It’s fitting that this episode starts with us arguing, but that isn’t important. What is important is that I won. Because…
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La. Sheriff Seems Real Happy to Say 'Nigga' in Public
I am going to need these white men in positions of power to grow up. I’m going to need them to stop acting like teenagers whose feelings get hurt on Twitter. I’m going to need them to log off and do their jobs. To date, the president-elect and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff investigating a murder…
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Ohio Family's Home Trashed; Swastikas and 'White Power' Spray-Painted on Walls
Pat Jude and her husband, Joe, left their Cincinnati rental home to visit their daughter. When they returned, the interracial couple found their place trashed and vandalized with swastikas. “They hit every cabinet with paint,” Pat Jude told NBC 4. “They hit every wall with paint. They hit every appliance, they poured paint into the…
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Olive Garden Donates Money to Comedian's Charity After Waitress Refuses to Serve Him Because He's Black
What’s a black man to do when he can’t even get endless breadsticks and salad because a waitress refuses to serve him? Comedian Ricky Smith took those complaints to social media, and the world and Olive Garden listened. Smith said Tuesday that he tried to have a meal at an Olive Garden in Ohio, but the…
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Report: Open and Unabashed Harassment and Intimidation After Trump's Election
The United States is no stranger to hate crimes and racial or ethnic harassment; after all, this is a country that was built on the genocide of indigenous people, the enslavement of black people, and the systemic and institutionalized oppression that keeps one group ahead of all the rest. For the most part, bigots and…
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Judge Is Deliberating Over Accused SC Church Shooter’s Competency to Stand Trial
A judge has begun deliberating whether Dylann Roof, the accused shooter at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.,, is competent to stand trial following a second day of a closed-door hearing, the Greenville News reports. The hearing on Roof’s competency started Monday afternoon and extended into Tuesday afternoon, with the federal court then…
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Ohio Men Plead Guilty to Beating of Black Man in Hate Crime
An Ohio man pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal hate crime after beating up a black man he did not know in the street earlier this year, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. On May 18 in Toledo, Ohio, Robert Paschalis and co-defendant Charles Butler drove past the victim in a GMC truck decorated with a small…
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Parents File Complaint After Teacher's Racially Charged Explanation of Equality
The parents of a Folsom, Calif., middle schooler are furious after they say a teacher used a racially charged explanation in class, CBS Sacramento reports. The incident occurred at the Sutter Middle School and was prompted by a question from one of the students. “One of the kids raised their hand and asked the teacher…
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Those "I'm Not My Grandparents; You Can Catch These Hands" Shirts Are Disrespectful As Fuck (And Wrong)
I was invited to New York City Friday evening for an advance screening of the screen adaptation of Fences — August Wilson’s iconic play. Afterwards, the cast — including Denzel Washington (who also produced and directed the film) and Viola Davis — took part in a panel discussion about the story the film told, August Wilson’s genius, Pittsburgh…
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Ala. Cop Fired After Facebook Posts Reference Slavery, Michelle Obama
A Talladega, Ala., police officer was fired after racist posts, apparently from his Facebook page, surfaced on social media earlier this week, Talladega City Manager Patrick Bryant confirmed earlier this week, the Daily Home reports. Another one bites the dust. Officer Joel Husk reportedly shared posts from the Last American Patriots and from Donald Trump,…