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Freddie Wahter wants to open up. He’s overcome racism and poverty to become the man he is today: a Toronto-based artist with global reach, working with musicians, fashion designers, and photographers to create the art he wants to make. But the world wasn’t always at Freddie’s grasp. Growing up poor to two Ghanaian immigrants who met […]
Sales of books written by Dr. Seuss soared after the author’s estate announced earlier this week that six titles would no longer be published because they contained racist and insensitive imagery, Rolling Stone reports. As of Wednesday evening, Dr. Seuss books occupy all but one entry in the top 10 of Amazon’s Best Sellers in Books […]
Creighton coach Greg McDermott has apologized for post-game comments he made to his team on Saturday after they lost a game to Xavier 77-69. Those comments were as follows: “Guys, we got to stick together. We need both feet in. I need everybody to stay on the plantation. I can’t have anybody leave the […]
UCLA has dismissed student-athlete Chris Weiland from its track team after a video of him dropping racist and homophobic slurs went viral. The track and field and cross country runner was removed from the team by program director Avery Anderson, who admitted that he suspended Weiland over the incident months before. “Chris Weiland has been dismissed […]
When watching one of Elladj Baldé’s viral TikTok videos and his moves across the ice, there is a freedom of expression and movement that cannot go unnoticed. A smile that goes from ear to ear, an enthusiasm befitting the backflips he catapults into, and a feel for the music—from Drake to Otis Redding—that takes the […]
Deadline can confirm that Kevin Michael Richardson will be replacing Harry Shearer as the voice of Dr. Hibbert on The Simpsons. Shearer’s last turn as the character occurred this past Sunday, making way for Richardson to begin on Feb. 28. The move follows through with an announcement from the show’s producers last June stating white actors will no longer voice non-white characters. The […]
DaniLeigh is facing backlash after she previewed a song titled “Yellow Bone.” The singer and rapper teased the track on social media. “YELLOW BONE THATS WHAT HE WANT,” she wrote alongside a brief preview of the song. After it started to court controversy and accusations of colorism, she addressed the situation in the comments. “Why I […]
A prominent human rights attorney is facing backlash this week, after she was accused of posing as a Latina throughout her career. According to a recent Prism report, Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan has spent years advocating for Latin communities while presenting herself as a Puerto Rican woman from New York; however, records obtained by the outlet show the 43-year-old white woman—who was said […]
A video recently went viral showing an altercation between a white man and Black man inside a convenience store in Elyria, Ohio last week, culminating with the Black man slapping the inebriated white man with a Twisted Tea can across the face for using the N-word, Daily Dot reports. While confronting the white man over his racist, belligerent behavior, […]
A church in Murdock, Minnesota was just granted a conditional use permit to operate a white-only church in the town. NBC News cited that the Asatru Folk Assembly—which originated in Northern Europe and allows only white people to practice its religion—had the permit approved by the Murdock City Council this month. The organization has been labeled a “neo-Volkisch […]
