Bob CollinsWho’s going to believe a bunch of children of color that they ran into racism while visiting one of the nation’s great museums? Read more →
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Tag: Racism
It’s 2019 and if high school students in Chaska are still dabbling in blackface, Chaska has some racist students. Read more →
That Katharine Gerbner feared retaliation if she’d said something before getting tenure is a commentary on top of her commentary. Read more →
You’ll want to check the calendar — spoiler alert: it’s 2019 — while reading the St. Paul Pioneer Press story about a teacher in the city school system who thought it acceptable — if only for a moment — to use the ‘N word’ in polite conversation. Read more →
Someone hacked the website of the group trying to restore the name of Bde Maka Ska. Read more →
At one time, Kate Smith pretty much was America. Times change, though, and the legendary — and dead — singer of her signature God Bless America is out at no less an American institution than Yankee Stadium. Read more →
Slavery is good marketing for Ancestry.com, the outfit that sells DNA tests. It’s not a good look for the firm. Whitewashing never is.
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On the steps of West High School, someone painted ‘Immigration is white genocide’ in time for the kids to see it on their way into the school on Tuesday morning. Read more →
A seventh-grade teacher in Wisconsin is on leave after allegedly separating students by race and then telling the kids to research games from their culture.
For the black kids, it was ‘slave games,’ according to a seventh grader in Shorewood, Wis.
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For obvious reasons, journalists get a lot more worked up about changes in the Associated Press Stylebook — the defacto writing guide for newspeople — than normal people, but occasionally a change signals a cultural or ethical shift in a buttoned-down profession. Read more →
An amateur league playoff game in western New York was canceled because of racism last weekend. Read more →
The saddest thing about what Devontae Shuler, a basketball player for Ole Miss, did last Saturday is try to explain why he took a knee during the National Anthem to a nation that knows exactly why he did it and is anxious to change the subject.
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In a decent society, you ought to be able to go to work without seeing a racist message spraypainted on your business when you get there.
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A black doctor says a Delta flight crew didn’t believe her medical credentials when she rushed to the aid of a passenger. Sound familiar? It happened on a Minneapolis flight in 2016, too. Read more →
Cody NelsonSchool officials are investigating racist messages left on a freshman’s door room door. Read more →