When Stranger Things was released to Netflix in 2016, the sci-fi show had viewers in a chokehold. The series, which centered around young teens and their journey through a mysterious underworld, was an instant hit. But, for one star, even at 14 years old, he knew that his experience wasn’t the same as his co-stars.
A white Georgia high school principal is under fire after being caught on camera using the n-word while trying to explain the harm of racial slurs to a white student. He apparently didn’t realize the student was recording him, but that’s only a legitimate excuse if you’re of the opinion that racial slurs are OK […]
Racism has found its way into the fictional Lord of The Ring's world of Middle-Earth.
It is the year of our Lord, 2022, and folks are still out here pretending they don’t know the racist history of Black people being referred to as monkeys. And some of these folks have the nerve to call themselves educators.
A funny thing can happen to a business once it has been accused publicly of racism—suddenly all said business’ dirty-and-discriminatory laundry starts coming out as other patrons start publicly recalling their own experiences.
The internet was ablaze after a Twitter user shared a Black man's experience at his company's corporate retreat on an Alabama plantation dressed up as an enslaved person. The man, identified as BisFitty on Reddit, also provided pictures of his outfit as well as the shocked response of a co-worker who saw him.
A San Francisco man, Steven Cibotti, was sentenced to 60 days in jail for his threats to shoot a multiracial family wearing "Black Lives Matter" t-shirts in a restaurant in 2020. According to reports, Cibotti also received an order barring him from contact with the family.
The rabbit hole is still rabbit hole-ing for Sesame Street-based theme park Sesame Place as it has once again been accused of racial discrimination against Black children. But this time a Sesame Splacelocation in Baltimore is in the hot seat—and this time a lawsuit has been filed.
A woman who recently moved to a Houston neighborhood with her daughter and a roommate was targeted with racist flyers threatening them to get out. The case is now being investigated by law enforcement as a hate crime.
A video of two Black girls being blatantly ignored by a character performer at the Sesame Place theme park over the weekend has gone viral, prompting others to share their videos of other Black children getting the same treatment. The park issued a statement, which was called out for being untrue. Since then, they've stated that bias training will be implemented.
An unpublished memoir from Carolyn Bryant Donham, the woman who falsely accused 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955, has surfaced. The discovery coincided with the discovery of an unserved warrant for kidnapping, naming Donham in it along with her late husband and brother-in-law.
Three accused white supremacists have been arrested and charged with leaving more than 100 messages of hate on the properties of residents in the small and overwhelmingly (93 percent) white town of Hornell, New York. Unsurprisingly, the first report of their literal hate mail campaign came from a predominately Black church.
