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BET reports that a Hunter College professor was placed on leave after being recorded on a hot mic making racist comments about Black students during a public Zoom meeting related to school closures. The article says parents, students, and local officials called for accountability after the remarks circulated. The story describes the context of the […]
Source: NPR (via Ideastream)Published: Feb 15, 2026Link:https://www.ideastream.org/npr-news/2026-02-15/obama-responds-to-trump-sharing-racist-ai-video-depicting-him-as-an-ape NPR reports on former President Barack Obama’s response after President Trump shared a racist AI-generated depiction portraying Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes. The article explains the backlash, the White House response, and the way the incident landed during Black History Month. This story is […]
Mobile Museum of Tolerance Combats Hate with Education at Parcel 5The Mobile Museum of Tolerance visited Rochester’s Parcel 5, offering interactive workshops on combating racism, antisemitism, and online hate. An extension of the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, the traveling exhibit serves as a classroom on wheels. Programs covered the Civil Rights Movement, Anne […]
Only about a fourth of moms in the United States say they have “excellent” physical and mental health, according to a new study. The study, published Tuesday in JAMA Internal Medicine, looked at 198, 417 mothers with children age 17 and under, finding large declines in self-reported maternal mental health and small declines in physical health from 2016 […]
The second season of Daniel Lawrence Taylor’s hit series Boarders returns with sharper social commentary and deeper character arcs. The Tubi comedy follows five Black teens from inner-city London navigating life at a posh boarding school. This season, a new headmistress slashes scholarship funding for the “diverse” students, echoing real-world DEI backlash in education. Taylor […]
The Penfield Superintendent Dr. Tasha Potter confirmed that parents disrupted the Board of Education meeting Tuesday night. In response to the disruption, the school board President Dr. Emily Roberts ended the meeting and board members walked out. In a conversation with News 8, Dr. Potter made a statement about what she calls the hatred rooted […]
LeVar Burton recently responded on social media to a caller on the British radio talk show LBC, who made controversial remarks about Vice President Kamala Harris. The caller, James, attributed Harris’s rise to “woke” culture, suggesting her race and gender played a significant role in her success. Despite efforts by the host, Ben Kentish, to […]
In 2020, Clare Brown created the TikTok character Carèn to humorously flip racial dynamics, quickly gaining nearly half a million followers. Carèn treats “European Americans” with the same passive racism Black people often face, offering sharp commentary on race relations. Brown’s new audiobook, New Nigeria County, expands Carèn’s world into a fictional Black utopia. In […]
Sam Forster, a Canadian-American writer, is facing severe backlash on social media for his unconventional research method used in his book “Seven Shoulders: Taxonomizing Racism in Modern America.” To gain a firsthand account of racism in the U.S., Forster disguised himself as a Black man and traveled across the country. Announcing the book’s release, Forster […]
On March 15th, 2024, local students from Ogden, N.Y., united at the ROC2Change Summit, an event dedicated to dismantling racial barriers. The summit, gathering students from over 30 schools across the county, served as a platform for open discussions on race, privilege, racism, and colorism. Janae, a 10th-grade student from Eastridge High School, emphasized the […]
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