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Recent events in Charlottesville and past movements like "Black Lives Matter", raise doubts as to whether or not racism has truly disappeared over time. Counterpoint: Experts debate if racism is ...
Kentucky has come a long way since 10,000 people marched to the state capitol in 1964, demanding an end to segregation at businesses statewide. But 60 years later, the struggle against racism is ...
There is a rise in deadly racist shootings and hate crimes in the U.S., experts say. What to know about recent racist and antisemitic attacks.
In the context of racism in the United States, racism against African Americans dates back to the colonial era, and it continues to be a persistent issue in American society in the 21st century. From the arrival of the first Africans in early colonial times until after the American Civil War , most African Americans were enslaved .
[178] Representative Tim Walz of Minnesota said, "This is racism, plain and simple, and we need to call it that. My Republican colleagues need to call it that too." Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said that Trump's comments "smack of blatant racism—odious and insidious racism masquerading poorly as immigration policy". [186]
Should we defund or dismantle police departments, or not at all? How do we become anti-racist? Weeks after the deaths of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and, most recently Rayshard ...
A wave of civil unrest in the United States, initially triggered by the murder of George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020, led to protests and riots against systemic racism in the United States, [8] [9] including police brutality and other forms of violence. [10]
Nowhere are these attacks more evident right now than on college campuses. Many academics who teach about the history of race and racism in America, as I do, are being unjustifiably blamed for the ...