racism
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Not a Good Look: UK Grocer Pulls 'Ugly'-Named Chocolate Duckies After Complaints of Racism
There’s the old adage that good things come in threes: Huey, Dewey and Louie. Snap, Crackle and Pop. Or perhaps the Holy Trinity itself: Destiny’s Child. But for a U.K. grocery chain selling a trio of chocolate ducks just in time for Easter, what came in threes was the latest trite display of what is…
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Report: White People Still Tripping
The next time someone says that America needs to have a “conversation about race,” please remind them that, according to a new report from one of the most respected opinion researchers in the world, most white people in America think we talk about race too much. Most white people don’t think that being white has…
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Brexit Reporter Declares He’s ‘Never Seen So Many White People in One Place.’ The Lie Detector Determined … That’s a Lie
Earlier in life then we probably realize, black people are taught the value of compartmentalizing our personas. While we take comfort in Wobbling at weddings and selectively blurting out “Ain’t nobody coming to see you, Otis!” around our own, we have a propensity to abandon the seasoning rack while amongst our unseasoned companions. Our speaking…
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More than 750K Could Lose Food Stamp/SNAP Benefits Under Proposed National Changes
This week we found out that unhealthy diets account for about 11 million deaths worldwide each year. Donald Trump wants to raise that number by at least 750,000. Three-quarters of a million people—that’s how many could lose their benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, later this year under a new proposal from…
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Three Black Churches Burned in One Louisiana Parish
Harkening back to darker days, authorities believe a common culprit may have resorted to a tried and true intimidation tactic. Federal authorities are lending a hand after a pattern of destruction has emerged. According to the New York Times, one Louisiana parish has seen three historically black churches burned in less than two weeks. The…
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Belgium Prime Minister Apologizes to African Nations for Colonization, Kidnapping of Mixed-Raced Children
It’s no secret that colonization has introduced unspeakable horrors to communities of color throughout the world. And while an apology could never remedy those atrocities, it can serve as the impetus for long overdue healing and accountability. On Thursday, the New York Times reported that Belgium Prime Minister Charles Michel began the process of doing exactly…
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Why You Can’t Say ‘Roll Tide!’ to Any Ole Person Up in the Target
I was reminded recently why we are taught as youth not to speak to strangers. While the goal of this lesson for children is to hopefully curb abduction and prevent being handed candy with razor blades lodged inside, it is also a lesson one can put to use as an adult. Because sometimes, something as…
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White Teens in Maryland Sentenced to Weekends in Jail for Racist, Anti-Semitic Graffiti
Last year, four graduating seniors at Glenelg High School in Howard County, Md., defaced their school with racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic graffiti that they spray painted across the school—defacing sidewalks, parking lots and other parts of the high school building. Some of the graffiti directly targeted the school’s principal, David Burton—who is black—with the word…
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Visiting the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Was the Most Emotional Museum Experience I've Ever Had
Today is April 4, 2019. Fifty-one years ago today, on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down by James Earl Ray while standing on the balcony outside of his room, 306, at the Lorraine Motel, located at 450 Mulberry St., in Memphis, Tenn. In the time since then, the Lorraine Motel…
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How Raising Multiethnic Kids Reshaped My Blackness
My wife is not black. Our daughters, by no choice of their own, are. Not when we’re at home or with friends and family or surrounded by people who know and love them. But when they’re out in the world, with their bronze skin and curly afros, when they’re seen from afar or described by…