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A high school student in Connecticut has been arrested after sending a racist Snapchat asking why his Black classmate wasn't "in chains". The 16-year-old unnamed student was arrested on Friday, May 15, shortly after the image surfaced at Fairfield Warde High School. Per ABC7, the teen was charged with second-degree…
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A man has shared a passive-aggressive letter his family received from a neighbor over their BLM sign. On Thursday, May 13, a Twitter user named Aj Shehata took to the platform to post a picture of the irate letter he had received, after a neighbor of his took umbrage over…
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Michelle Obama has opened up about her anxieties around the racism her daughters may face in the future. In a new interview with CBS News presenter Gayle King, the 57-year-old former First Lady of the United States spoke about her own fears about the prejudice her children may experience when…
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The manager of a café has come under fire for condoning a racist comment made to customers. When handing over a bill to two diners, waiters wrote on the top of the receipt "two very annoying Asians". Rather than condemning the racist behaviour, the manager of the restaurant in Brisbane,…
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A parent caught her child's teacher making racist comments after forgetting to turn off her mic on a Zoom call. Per CNN, Katura Stokes' sixth-grader son, who attends Desert Willow Fine Arts, Science and Technology Magnet Academy in Palmdale in California, had been struggling with learning online during the pandemic. On January…
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Megan Thee Stallion has donated $50,000 to charity in the wake of the Atlanta spa shootings last week. The 26-year-old Grammy award-winning rapper and musician announced in a recent post on Instagram that she intends to donate the large sum to Advancing Justice Atlanta. Advancing Justice Atlanta is a nonprofit…
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A New York headmaster has resigned after being reported for racism. Per the New York Daily News, John Patrick Holian, the headteacher at St. Martin de Porres Marianist School in Long Island, forced an 11-year-old student to apologise the "African way". HIs behaviour left the sixth grader "humiliated, hurt and…
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Halle Berry has branded a radio presenter's comments "disgusting" after he spoke on air about how he used the skin tones of different Black women to judge toast. While presenting on the 97 Rock show Morning Bull in Buffalo, New York, radio host Rob Lederman was speaking about his desired…
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An Asian-American woman who fought off a man who attacked her in the street is donating the money raised by the public to charity. According to The Daily Mail, 76-year-old grandmother Xiao Zhen Xie was attacked by an assailant in San Francisco on Wednesday, March 17. A police report states…
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Ken Jeong has donated $50,000 to the families of the victims of the Atlanta spa shooting that left eight people dead. According to NBC News, in the wake of the horrific shooting spree across three spas in Atlanta on Wednesday (March 17), five $10,000 donations were made by the 51-year-old…
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Sandra Oh has spoken about how proud she is of her Asian heritage at a Stop Asian Hate rally this week. The 49-year-old Killing Eve actress spoke at a protest in Pittsburgh over the weekend amid a recent outbreak of anti-Asian hate crimes in the United States. Take a look…
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The wife of divisive comedian Bill Burr has responded to a critic on social media who claimed that their marriage is "a sign of racism". The 52-year-old Mandalorian star pushed a number of viewers' buttons while presenting several awards at the Grammys Premiere Ceremony, which aired prior to the 63rd…
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Zendaya has called out Giuliana Rancic's "outrageously offensive" comments about her dreadlocks in a brand-new interview. According to People, the controversy in question dates back to the 2015 Academy Awards when the Spiderman: Homecoming star wore her hair in dreadlocks to the glitzy red carpet event. However, upon spotting her,…
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Harry Potter star Katie Leung has claimed that her publicists told her to deny that she was experiencing racist attacks while making the films. Leung, now 33, played Cho Chang in the magical movie series, but on a recent episode of the Chinese Chippy Girl podcast, she said that she…
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California neighbors have rallied together to guard the home of an Asian-American family following a series of "deeply upsetting" racist attacks. Haijun Si and his family - as well as some of their neighbors - recently spoke to the Los Angeles Times about a series of racially motivated incidents the…
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Will Smith said that he's never met a "smart" racist person. The actor opened up about his personal experiences of racism on the Pod Saves America podcast, revealing that he has been called the N-word "five or six times" in his life. Smith said that he was able to overcome these…
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A teenage boy has claimed that his teacher told him his "Black King" t-shirt was racist and called for a "White History Month". Latrell Taft, a 13-year-old from Edmond in Oklahoma, told local news outlet KFOR that a female teacher, whose name has not been disclosed, took issue with his…
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Barack Obama has revealed that he once broke somebody's nose after being racially abused by them. The former President of the United States revealed that he threw a punch at another boy in his high school basketball team in a recent episode of his six-part Spotify-exclusive podcast Renegades: Born in…
