White fans at NBA games know that they can berate and demean Black players with little to no consequence – and they love doing it, writes Shaun King. “I’ve had NBA players tell me this for a decade. The first time I ever heard someone unpack how strange it is for white people to somehow…

From the 19th century until the 1970s, more than 150,000 First Nations children were required to attend state-funded Christian schools as part of a program to assimilate them into Canadian society, according KTVB. They were forced to convert to Christianity and not allowed to speak their native languages. Many were beaten and verbally abused, and…

The proprietor was accused of sexism. Last week, Randy Good, the owner of Good’s Candy Shop in Anderson, Indiana, posted a lengthy job listing (since deleted) and shared his poor experiences with certain types of employee behaviors, including laziness, manipulation, lying and “worst of all combined, the splitters,” the Idaho Statesman reports. “Splitting is a behavior of…

Covid-19 is disproportionately sickening and killing Black Americans, the result of centuries of structural racism, a group of Harvard researchers says. The report from CNN states that if the US had paid reparations the descendants of Black Americans who were enslaved, though, the risk of severe illness and death from the virus would be far…

Discipline disparities between Black and white boys have driven reform efforts for years. But Black girls are arguably the most at-risk student group in the United States, the New York Times reports. The disproportionate discipline rates of Black boys have long dominated discussions about the harmful effects of punitive discipline policies, but recent high-profile cases…

George Floyd was murdered on May 25, 2020. Young people in the United States have grown up watching Black and brown deaths go viral, writes Rita Omokha. The “Trayvon generation” has learned the names of so many victims of police violence, seen videos of their killings, and heard families mourn their lost, she says in…

Maurice had not been handcuffed, and he was never placed under arrest, writes Maurice Gordon, Sr. in a guest opinion on NJ.com. But the situation quickly and irrevocably escalated when Junior wanted to leave the police car, which he should have been free to do since he was never under arrest. Instead, Sgt. Wetzel accosted…

“They’re coming for you too.” UNC-Chapel Hill has sullied its reputation again, this time by giving into white conservative fears about a powerful black woman, according to the Charlotte Observer. And make no mistake, the decision to deny tenure at the Hussman School of Journalism and Media to Nikole Hannah-Jones, one of the most influential, decorated and…

A privilege that costs just $300. They are no longer a captive workforce. Last year, research found that people want to work, but only if they don’t have to jeopardize their health or the health of their families, and if they have good quality child care. The only thing that has changed since then is that the…

Nikole Hannah-Jones, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, was denied tenure at the University of North Carolina, her alma mater, by its board of trustees, according to a report by NC Policy Watch. The board’s decision sparked outrage online and from faculty and staff. Some have claimed the board’s decision resulted after pressure from conservatives, USA Today Reports….