KAMALA HARRIS IS ELIGIBLE TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT. Multiple posts on Facebook falsely claim that — in the event [Joe] Biden is unable to serve out his term –Harris is ineligible to serve […]
THE ONLY ONE IN THE ROOM. It might seem impossible to tell the history of Black people on Wall Street. That’s because the finance industry shut African Americans out of […]
POLICE HELD THREE BLACK TEENS AT GUNPOINT AFTER WITNESSES SAY THEY WERE CHASED BY A MAN WITH A KNIFE. A woman who identifies herself as the manager of the nearby […]
BLACK BRITISH POLITICIAN ACCUSES POLICE OF RACIAL PROFILING AFTER HER CAR WAS STOPPED. A British Member of Parliament says she believes she was the victim of racial profiling, after she and […]
MAGNOLIAS, BEER CANS AND FOOTBALL: MISSISSIPPI IS DESIGNING A NEW STATE FLAG. After Mississippi lawmakers voted in June to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state’s flag, they asked people to […]
JOE BIDEN PICKS KAMALA HARRIS IS BIDEN’S CHOICE TO BE HIS RUNNING MATE. Ms. Harris, 55, is the first Black woman and the first person of Indian descent to be […]
SAY HER NAME: BREONNA TAYLOR AND AMERICA’S DEADLY CASE OF RACIAL AMNESIA. On March 13th, plainclothes policemen in Louisville, Kentucky killed Breonna Taylor, an unarmed 26-year old Black woman, during […]
UNSAID STORIES REVIEW – A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO RACIAL INEQUALITY. Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, Unsaid Stories (ITV) is a collection of four timely short films told from […]
ASK AMY: FORMER STUDENT REACTS TO RACE-BASED GAME. In elementary school, we played a game in gym. It was an obstacle course on floor scooters, and we played it in […]
BBC APOLOGIZES OVER RACIAL SLUR USED IN NEWS REPORT. BBC director general Tony Hall has apologised and said a mistake was made after a news report containing a racial slur […]
HOW MANY INSULTS ARE BLACK VOTERS SUPPOSED TO TAKE FROM JOE BIDEN? Last week, at a convention for Black and Hispanic journalists, a Black reporter asked Joe Biden whether he has taken […]
#DON’TCALLMEMURZYN: BLACK WOMEN IN POLAND ARE POWERING THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST A RACIAL SLUR. Like many Polish people of African descent, Sara Alexandre still remembers when she first realized she was […]
CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FAVORS WHITE HOUSEHOLDS, LEAVING MANY PEOPLE OF COLOR AT RISK OF BEING EVICTED. Federal housing aid during the coronavirus pandemic disproportionately benefits white households over minorities, with Black […]
BLACK ALABAMA CHEERLEADER QUITS SQUAD AFTER WHITE TEAMMATES WEAR CONFEDERATE FLAG T-SHIRTS. A group of Alabama cheerleaders are receiving backlash after they posed holding a T-shirt featuring the Confederate flag […]
AMERICA’S HIGHEST-PAYING JOBS HAVE THE WORST BLACK-WHITE SALARY GAPS. Structural racism is evident everywhere in America, but especially in the makeup of the country’s highest-paying professions. From law to finance to software […]
HBO’S LOVECRAFT COUNTRY REVIEW: RACIAL COMMENTARY MEETS WITCHES AND VAMPIRES. Lovecraft Country is tough to categorize. The new HBO drama, which debuts Aug. 16, is set in the racially segregated […]