Donald Trump branded President Biden “a very nasty and vicious racist” during a speech on Friday at the Black Conservative Federation’s annual gala in Columbia, South Carolina. In response, the White House referred Newsweek to comments made by Biden-Harris 2024 Black media director Jasmine Harris before Trump’s address, in which he branded the Republican presidential […]
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White House is working on AI’s inherit racism
Kelsey Davis had what might seem to be an odd reaction to seeing blatant racism on her computer screen: She was elated. Davis is the founder and CEO of CLLCTVE, a tech company based in Tulsa, Okla. She was one of hundreds of hackers probing artificial intelligence technology for bias as part of the largest-ever […]
59% Of Americans Say Racism Is A Very Serious Problem In This Country
Nearly 6 in 10 Americans say that racism is a serious problem in the United States, according to a poll from The Associated Press and NORC Center for Public Affairs released Friday. Fifty-nine percent of respondents said that racism is either an “extremely” or “very serious” problem in the U.S. Of this, 30 percent said […]
All-White Church Issued Permit To Practice In Town
When the church doors open, only white people will be allowed inside. That’s the message the Asatru Folk Assembly in Murdock, Minnesota, is sending after being granted a conditional use permit to open a church there and practice its pre-Christian religion that originated in northern Europe. Despite a council vote officially approving the permit this […]
Bill O’Reilly Forced Out Amid Sexual Harassment Claims
Bill O’Reilly will no longer be employed at Fox News, the network’s parent company 21st Century Fox said in a statement Wednesday. The decision comes after allegations of him sexually harassing female colleagues prompted protests outside network headquarters and a mass exodus from advertisers. “After a thorough and careful review of the allegations, the Company and Bill […]
Trump Inauguration Boycott Grows
WASHINGTON ― Dozens of Democratic members of Congress are planning to boycott President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, saying they can’t bring themselves to welcome a man to the White House who ran such a divisive and prejudiced campaign ― and insulted their colleague, Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.). “I will not be celebrating or […]
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum upset over ‘hateful speech’ by white nationalists
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum expressed alarm on Monday over “hateful speech” at a white nationalist meeting over the weekend, and a restaurant apologized for hosting the group after a woman tweeted a picture of herself making a Nazi salute. The National Policy Institute, a think tank that is part of the alt-right movement that […]
Alt-right leader from Dallas: ‘For white nationalists, Trump win a dream come true’
Richard Spencer was euphoric the night Donald Trump was elected president. “When it happened, I thought I might have been dreaming,” he said. Richard Spencer, 38, a Dallas native and a graduate of St. Mark’s School of Texas prep school, now lives in Montana. Spencer, a 38-year-old Dallas native and graduate of St. Mark’s School of […]
Study Shows Trumps Supporters Less Educated With More Racial Prejudices
Election swings are usually pretty uniform. States tend to shift together from one presidential election year to the next. Most demographic groups do as well. But there was one glaring exception this year: College-educated voters became a lot more Democratic and non-college educated voters became a lot more Republican. These patterns were particularly pronounced among […]
SEE IT: Michigan middle school students chant ‘build the wall’
In Donald Trump’s America, middle school children chant “build the wall” while having lunch. A Facebook video recorded at the Royal Oak Middle School cafeteria in Michigan on Wednesday shows a large contingent of students having lunch, as a loudly yelled “build the wall” chant smatters in the background. “It is so sad,” said Dee […]
Trump’s victory is seen as white supremacy for minorities
In his first speech as president-elect, Donald Trump pledged early Wednesday to serve as a leader representing “all Americans.” Racial and religious minorities viewed the promise skeptically. They noted that it came from a man who, over the course of his campaign, had called for mass deportations and a wall along the Mexican border, floated […]
‘Brutal’ video shows white officer violently arresting black man sitting on his mother’s porch
Dejuan Yourse was outside his mother’s house, sitting on the front porch in Greensboro, N.C., when two police officers arrived. They’d received a report about a possible burglary and a man with a shovel trying to open a house’s garage. When they saw Yourse on the porch, they asked what he was doing and why he […]