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Darnella Frazier has been hailed a hero. The Minneapolis teen was among those who witnessed the deadly arrest of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man who was killed at the hands of local police in May 2020. The then-17-year-old Frazier used her cellphone to record the deadly incident in which ex-Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck for more than nine […]
An adult man inexplicably shared a video of himself on TikTok getting embarrassed by a 12-year-old who confronted him for hanging a Confederate flag on his porch. The exchange, which was captured by a security camera positioned outside his home, starts with the kid walking up to the grown man on his bike, and asking him […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declared racism a “serious public health threat” that requires immediate action. CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky made the declaration Thursday, citing racism as a major cause of “health inequities, health disparities and disease.” She used the ongoing pandemic to support the agency’s claim, reminding the public the coronavirus has disproportionately affected communities of color; however, Walensky emphasized that […]
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon invited the creators of viral TikTok dances to perform on the show and talk about how they came up with the moves. Mya Nicole Johnson, Chris Cotter, Dorien Scott, Fur-Quan Powell, Camyra Franklin, Adam Snyder, Nate Nale, Greg Dahl, and Keara Wilson joined the show after Addison Rae was on Fallon […]
UPDATED 3/30, 12:05 p.m. ET: The person who recorded the video of the incident has said that the man that was repeatedly punched “appeared to be Hispanic” not Asian, ABC 7 NY’s CeFaan Kim reports. The person also said that the altercation began after the Black man was called the N-word. See original story below. The New York City Police Department’s […]
The 2010 graphic novel The Adventures of Ook and Gluk, a spin-off from the popular Captain Underpants illustrated children’s novel series, is being pulled by its publisher because of “passively racist imagery,” Deadline reports. Author Dav Pilkey apologized in a post made to YouTube, acknowledging that the book contained “harmful racial stereotypes and passively racist imagery.” Pilkey also said that he will be donating […]
A Palmdale, California mother is filing a lawsuit against her son’s school district after hearing his teacher’s racist rant over a Zoom call. TMZ reports that the incident in question happened in January, when the sixth-grade science teacher, Kimberly Newman, made bigoted remarks about one of her students and their parent after office hours on […]
Jay Leno delivered an apology for the racist jokes he has made throughout his career about Asians, per Variety. In a joint press conference with Guy Aoki, leader of the activist group Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA), Leno explained that since he considered those jokes to be harmless at the time, the comedian frequently spurned anyone who was critical […]
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association board, the group that’s behind the Golden Globe Awards, has pledged to add at least 13 Black journalists, Variety reports. The group has 87 members, none of which are black. The commitment comes on the heels of the release of an open letter from over 100 Hollywood public relations firms urging their clients […]
Amanda Gorman took to Twitter on Friday night to describe an incident that many people of minority communities found all too familiar. The 22-year-old activist and poet said she was walking to her home in Los Angeles when she realized she was being “tailed” by a security guard. Gorman, who became the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history […]
