On the cover of Ruth J. Simmons’s memoir, Up Home: One Girl’s Journey (Random House), her profile’s silhouette forms the crown of a tall tree. Underneath...
Colleen DeGuzman | (TNS) KFF Health News Many people from racial and ethnic minority groups brace themselves for insults and judgments before medical appointments, according to...
Background Of The “NYC Hospital Karen” Incident: A Manhattan hospital nurse, Sarah Comrie, known as “Karen” on social media, was involved in a viral Citi Bike...
Controversy Over NYC Racial Equity: After her anti-Semitic writings surfaced, Linda Tigani’s selection to lead New York City’s Commission on Racial Equity came under attention. After...
Living In Hiding And Employment Struggles: Amy Cooper, known as “Central Park Karen,” lives in solitude, terrified by a video that made her famous three years...
‘Zombie Karen’ And Her Outlandish Antics Louisiana lady became the undisputed ‘Zombie Karen.’ Twitter user @sreed101 captured the unusual incident outside Mahony’s pub in Houma on...
Cherry Boggess paused on the sidewalk just outside the door to Pipkin Drug Store, in Waco. She turned to the half dozen students from historically Black...
Gov. Ron DeSantis has a dream. It’s a dream in which Florida lives in a post-racial world — not because he’s dedicated to righting the myriad...
Isolating Race And Gender Books At Book Fair: Due to new state rules prohibiting race, gender, and sexuality material, Scholastic separated some books at school book...
Tiffany Gomas has seen firsthand how upheaval and controversy can catapult someone into the limelight on social media. Gomas, the ‘Crazy Plane Lady’ following her American...
Legal Developments And Plea Bargain The notorious “SoHo Karen,” Miya Ponsetto, pled guilty to a felony hate crime for falsely accusing and attacking a Black teenager...
Hate Crime: White Guy Shoots 3 Black People Dead At Florida: Jacksonville, Fla. (AP), A masked white man shot and killed three Black people inside a...
Sparks Debate On Race-conscious Admissions Policies: The U.S. Supreme Court knocked down race-conscious college and university admissions procedures, sparking disputes over racism and Black representation in...
The definition of ad hominem is “attacking a person’s character or motivations rather than a position or argument.” That’s exactly what Gary Shiffrin did in his...
I. The land had been theirs since long before any of them could remember. As a child in the fifties, Lawrence Smith grew up playing in...
Recently, I donned a T-shirt that I bought after the tragic murder of Ahmaud Arbrey. On it is a quote by the late Audrey Lorde that...
Many moviegoers expected to hear “Till” star Danielle Deadwyler’s name called last month when the Oscar were announced. Much to the chagrin of fans impressed by...
When the levees broke, submerging much of New Orleans under seven feet of brackish floodwater in the summer of 2005, Darresha George was seven months pregnant....
Tesla in a new court filing has cast doubt on the extent of racism at its Fremont factory and whether a Black former worker suffered racism-based...
