Race Matters - Page 2
After clinching the 400-meter title, 16-year-old Clara Adams was disqualified for a celebratory gesture, sparking outrage and reigniting a conversation on the policing of Black joy.
Alabama is one of several anti-DEI states that mark the first Monday of June as a state holiday in honor of Confederacy President Jefferson Davis’ birthday.
OPINION: Historian Stacey Patton responds after "Harvard University finally gave up photos of enslaved people they clung to like necrophiliacs with a fetish for Black death.."
The Louisiana Legislaturer struck down legislative maps that would have created eight new majority Black voting districts.
Affinity graduations have been a college tradition for years, but Trump's DEI crackdown has a lot of colleges backing away from the practice.
Split jury Convictions, a relic of the Jim Crow era, would have been added to a list of claims for which an incarcerated person could seek retrial.
The Trump administration's “Civil Rights Fraud Initiative” will pull federal funding from schools that offer protections or considerations for non-white, non-straight, non-cis gender students.
A student at Alameda High School in California's Bay Area made a proposal sign that used the "hard-ER" and made a reference to picking cotton.
Nottoway Plantation, Fort Branch Museum, and the Kalorama mansion are all relics to white supremacy, and white people are grieving their demise.
A white man walked into a bar in Mississippi and started yelling the n-word at Black patrons. Police are investigating his subsequent beating as a hate crime.
The question now is not whether George Floyd’s death changed anything—it did. The question is: Who has the power to shape what comes next?
In another instance of white people stealing language created by Black people to describe our active and lived experience in America, they are now claiming to have "Black Fatigue."
