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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 […]
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 […]
Will Smith stopped by Crooked Media’s Pod Save America podcast where he once again floated the idea of running for political office one day. “I think for now I’ll let that office get cleaned up a little bit and then I’ll consider that at some point down the line,” Smith said. “I absolutely have an opinion, I’m […]
Georgia high school teacher Susan McCoy has received a lot of justified criticism after she suggested Breonna Taylor was responsible for her own death. The forensics teacher has gotten calls for her to be fired from her job at Pebblebrook High School in Mableton, Georgia, the Courier Journal reports. “I’m sorry she was killed, but you know […]
Bachelorette star and podcast host Rachel Lindsay disabled her Instagram account this week after receiving a wave of hateful comments and harassment from Bachelor Nation, Variety reports. The online bullying comes after Lindsay, who became the show’s first Black Bachelorette in 2017, sat down for an Extra interview with franchise host Chris Harrison. During the interview, Harrison defended […]
About a week after the coronavirus was declared a global pandemic, hip-hop duo Year of the Ox released a powerful video for “Viral”—a track that addressed the rise in anti-Asian crimes linked to the health crisis. The 2020 visual includes viral footage of various attacks on Asian Americans at a time when political figures began using xenophobic rhetoric while […]
A Colorado Neo-Nazi was sentenced to close to 20 years in federal prison for plotting to blow up one of the state’s oldest synagogues, NBC News reports. 28-year-old Richard Holzer was sentenced to 235 months—which is close to 19 and a half years—in prison and 15 years of supervised release after admitting he had plans to attack the Temple […]
Jeremy Lin is speaking up about the rise in Asian hate crimes, which have spiked following the COVID-19 pandemic. The Santa Cruz Warriors guard took to Instagram to further discuss the subject, after having appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area’s segment, Race in America: A Candid Conversation. He also suggested he’s been called names during games. […]
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 […]
A chemistry professor working at the University of New Hampshire resigned on Friday after being investigated for impersonating an immigrant woman of color on Twitter to post racist and sexist tweets. We don’t know the name of the offending party, but as the Associated Press reports, his resignation followed the conclusion of a four-month investigation […]
