Colorado voters voted to abolish an amendment in their state’s constitution that still listed slavery and forced servitude as punishment for a crime on Tuesday. The vote comes more than 150 years after the U.S. Constitution ratified the 13th Amendment. Only 65 percent of Colorado residents voted […]
Actor Viggo Mortensen is apologizing after he used a racial slur Wednesday night during a panel for his newest movie. Mortensen was doing a Q&A session in Los Angeles for “Green Book,” a film that depicts the relationship between a black classical pianist (Mahershala Ali) and his […]
On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported that David Thomas Sr., deputy executive director of VA’s Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, had a picture of Nathan Bedford Forrest — a Confederate general who became the white supremacist group’s first grand wizard — displayed in his office […]
Forgotten stories like these are being made available to students nationwide through immersive storytelling technology thanks to a collaborative partnership with Google Expeditions, the Friends of the Victory Memorial and the West Virginia University Reed College of Media Innovation Center. This project, “WWI Through the […]
A new study has unearthed several telling facts about what white evangelical Protestants really think about America’s growing diversity. The findings, published last Monday by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), suggest many white evangelicals don’t see eye to eye with Protestants of color on issues concerning […]
Georgia voters received a racist robocall targeting the state’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, according to a report by CNN. The call features a voice impersonating Oprah Winfrey, who appeared on the campaign trail Thursday (Nov. 1) in support of Abrams. In about a 60-second pre-recorded message, racist and […]
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