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An Instagram account titled “Black Bay Area” re-posted two troubling photos on their page this weekend, accusing the initial post of racism.

A pair of instagram photos have triggered an investigation at an East Bay school district. Many say those photos, showing a varsity cheerleading team posing with a Black mannequin head, are blatantly racist. Thom Jensen reports.

The racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory was once on the fringe, but is becoming more mainstream in American politics and on Fox News, explains Oren Segal of the ADL Center on Extremism. “It completely neglects the fact that this is a country made up of immigrants,” Segal said.

The “great replacement” theory, also known as “white replacement” theory, is the false idea that white Americans are being systematically replaced by nonwhite people for control of the country, and it’s existed on the fringes of racist ideology for centuries. In the wake of a deadly Buffalo shooting motivated by white resentment, Dr. Jonathan Metzl explains how it moved into...

NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai spoke to Dr. Lerone Martin, director of the MLK Research and Education Institute at Stanford, and Nolan Higdon, Media Dtudies lecturer at Cal State East Bay, about the mass shootings over the weekend.

The Nash family says they’re upset with how the Kaufman County Constable’s Office handled what they call a ‘racially-motivated’ incident caught on camera.

Americans are deeply divided over how much children in K-12 schools should be taught about racism and sexuality.

The white woman was hit with a felony hate crime charge for allegedly wrongly accusing the then-14-year-old son of a noted jazz musician of taking her phone and lunging at him.

This article was updated on March 25, 2022, at 3:56 p.m. ET. As the Russia-Ukrainian conflict surpasses the one-month mark, over 3.5 million Ukrainians have fled the violence. Most of them have traveled to fellow European countries, but on Wednesday, President Biden announced the U.S. would admit as many as 100,000 Ukrainians. Biden also plans to meet with Ukrainian refugees…

Between 1888 and 1934, there were 134 Black-owned banks. Today, there are only 20 Black-owned banks that qualify as Minority Depository Institutions.

Columbia University suspended the head of its psychiatry department Wednesday night after comments he made on Twitter about a model’s skin color, calling her a “freak of nature.”

A Massachusetts Montessori school apologized and fired a teacher for instructing young children to make and wear Blackface masks as a Black History Month project. The incident, which happened in a classroom with toddlers, took place last Tuesday at IC Kids in Newton. When one mother, Nadirah Pierce, picked up her children and learned what had happened, she complained and…

To help younger generations achieve success, several Black leaders from academia, business and finance recently shared their vision for the future with CNBC.

California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing says it conducted a three-year-long investigation and received hundreds of complaints from Tesla workers.

A new program plans to give Black women in Georgia up to $850 in guaranteed income per month. Similar experiments are also taking place across the country.

NBCLX went inside an African-American history class at Rhodes College, in Memphis, Tennessee, to learn how its professor and its students are tackling uncomfortable conversations about our nation’s past and present. (Note: This video contains the use of a racial slur. We have chosen not to edit it due to its context and the educational nature of the piece.)

A family in Orange is outraged after their son was subjected to racist slurs, yelled from the stands for an entire basketball game at Laguna Hills High School.

The wave of student activism in recent months shows precisely why schools cannot afford to avoid the topics of race and discrimination, experts say.