racism
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Mississippi Police Investigating Hate Crime After 12-Year-Old Is Given Racist Doll With Noose Around Its Neck
Parenthood is all about preparation. Before heading to the zoo, you fumble through your diaper bag to make sure you’re stocked up on wet wipes. Or if you’re hosting a playdate, you might want to childproof your living room to avoid an inevitable injury should your kid slip and bust their ass. But there are…
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Philadelphia Police Investigate After Cecil B. Moore Mural Is Defaced
While we’ve seen a rise in blatant white nationalism since the start of this presidency, Black History Month always has a particular way of bringing out the worst in racists. A report from CBS 3 in Philadelphia details how a long-standing mural of civil rights figure Cecil B. Moore has been defaced. The assailant spray…
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Sambo Be Damned! Black Fashion Model Refused to Wear ‘Racist’ Accessories at Fashion Institute of Technology Show
The trashion fashion world is still about that bullshit! One would think that even in higher institutes of liberal learning—in New York City, at that—folks wouldn’t be so oblivious not to realize that anything that could possibly be construed as racist is a non-starter. But no, not when it comes to fashion. A black model…
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Chicago High Schoolers Hold Sit-In After Teacher Told Student 'Go Back to Your Country'
I simply feel like it should be a standard policy that racists shouldn’t be teachers. If you’re going to be an asshole at least have the decency to not be one toward children. Granted, racists don’t know what decency is. Otherwise, they probably wouldn’t be racists. According to NBC News, students at Senn High School…
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A Maryland High School Had a Nazi Flag Hanging in a Classroom Window
Bruh, I swear racism in schools has just become my beat or something. It ain’t even been a whole ass week since another school fixed its face and did something racist. Tonight, it’s Nazis; more specifically, their flag. According to NBC News, over the weekend a Nazi flag was seen hanging in a classroom window…
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UCLA Just Dropped Its 2020 Hollywood Diversity Report and…It's Heavy on the Mayonnaise
Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but Hollywood has a bit of a diversity problem. For those out the loop, look no further than Sunday night’s Oscars, which featured a grand total of—wait for it—five black nominees. If the ceremony were any whiter, it’d be mistaken for a Klan rally. Which brings us to…
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As EGOT Status Draws Near, Double Oscar Nominee Cynthia Erivo Commends Joaquin Phoenix For Condemning Hollywood Racism
Can I get a soul clap for Cynthia Erivo. She’s just one award from gaining the much coveted EGOT status and she’s not tip-toeing around the racism that continues to permeate throughout Hollywood. Last Monday, the Harriet star – who’s the lone black nominee in the lead actress and original song categories at this year’s…
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!['[N-Word] Hating' White Student Arrested, Kicked Out of California College After Drunken, Racist, Homophobic Rant](https://www.theroot.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/idctr6cwsrazke6nky2v-300x169.jpg)
'[N-Word] Hating' White Student Arrested, Kicked Out of California College After Drunken, Racist, Homophobic Rant
Dayton Kingery got an education he didn’t initially apply to school for. The 21-year-old Chapman University student was arrested and is no longer a student at the Orange County, Calif. college after going on a rant in a campus classroom and then destroying property. According to the Orange County Register, local police arrested Kingery on…
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Like the Good Ol' Boy He Is, Ben Carson Wants You All to Know That Donald Trump Is 'Not a Racist'
Every black person with good sense can see that President Donald Trump likes to surround himself with conservative black people so he can point in any random direction and exclaim, from the book of wypipo proverbs: “How can I be racist? I have a black friend!” Why else would he appoint former neurosurgeon and 2016…
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CEO Loses His Cool and Then His Job After Calling an Uber Driver the N-Word
I imagine a lot of white people miss the good ol’ days before dashcams, internet, social media, digital activism, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, integrated lunch counters, all-white governments and the God-given right of every color-redacted American to call a black person “nigger” and go on about their business like it’s just another Tuesday.…