Race Matters

Race Matters

Recognizing the link between white anxiety and racial violence is a first step in addressing the scourge of racist mass shootings like the recent killings in Jacksonville, Florida.

Donald Trump dog-whistled a racist rant about Barack "Hussein" Obama while falsely claiming Joe Biden is inviting terrorists to America.

Crime

White men face minimal charges for allegedly leaving Michelle Folson with a brain injury.

Former and current Los Angeles city council members Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo, respectively, sued claiming that a leaked racist recording they were on hurt their reputations.

Angela Rye schooled Sexyy Red after the rapper dismissed decades of Trump's racism and said she supports him because he gave Americans "free money" stimulus checks.

Joe Rogan mischaracterized Martin Luther King Jr.'s quote on being "colorblind" during an anti-"woke" rant about a school hiring someone to teach children about anti-racism.

North Dakota man Gerald Knorr, who was seen wearing a "White Lives Matter More" shirt, was arrested on terrorism charges for harassing a Black family with his dog.

The Denny's restaurant chain has a troubling, decades-long legacy of profiling customers who are not white as shown in this detailed timeline, including recently in South Dakota.

Unlike other groups, the Black unemployment rate grew last month.

A white man named Kenny Bomer shown on video threatening to "whip" a Black man with his "belt" said he's actually a Muslim Black Lives Matter activist, but no one seems to believe him.

Climate & Environment

The disproportionate threats extreme weather brings to BIPOC communities are specifically evident in Louisiana, writes Ashley Shelton, CEO of the Power Coalition for Equity & Justice.