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East Bay High School Cheer Team Accused of Racist Instagram Post
An Instagram account titled “Black Bay Area” re-posted two troubling photos on their page this weekend, accusing the initial post of racism.
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East Bay High School Cheer Team Accused of Racist Instagram Post
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.
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Hate Groups Expert: White Supremacist ‘Great Replacement' Conspiracy is On the Rise
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.
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What Is the ‘Great Replacement' Theory and How Did It Go Mainstream?
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...
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Racism in the Age of Social Media
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.
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‘Racism is Real': Video Shows Texas Boy Cracking Whip on Black Family's Porch
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.
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Americans Are Divided Over Discussions of Race, Sex in Schools, Poll Shows
Americans are deeply divided over how much children in K-12 schools should be taught about racism and sexuality.
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White Woman Pleads Guilty in Alleged Racist NYC Hotel Confrontation With Black Teen
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.
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Americans More Accepting of Refugees From Ukraine Than Middle East, Central America, New Data Finds
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…
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Less Than 1% of All FDIC-Insured Banks Are Black-Owned, According to the FDIC
Between 1888 and 1934, there were 134 Black-owned banks. Today, there are only 20 Black-owned banks that qualify as Minority Depository Institutions.
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Columbia Suspends Psych Head After ‘Freak of Nature' Tweet About Model's Skin Color
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.”
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School Apologizes, Fires Teacher for Blackface Masks in Black History Month Lesson
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…
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Black Business Leaders: How to Build Wealth and Career Success
To help younger generations achieve success, several Black leaders from academia, business and finance recently shared their vision for the future with CNBC.
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Tesla Sued by California Civil Rights Agency, Which Alleges Racist Treatment of Black Employees
California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing says it conducted a three-year-long investigation and received hundreds of complaints from Tesla workers.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Advocated for Guaranteed Income. Now Experiments Are Taking Place in His Hometown and Other Cities Around the Country
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.
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How Black History is Taught at One Mostly White College in Tennessee
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.)
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Racist Slurs Directed at High School Basketball Player in Orange County
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.
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As Parents Protest Critical Race Theory, Students Fight Racist Behavior at 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.