everyday racism

Angel Hogan of Pennsylvania shares a story from when she was a teenager about a job offer that was suddenly taken away after the employer saw that she was Black.

‘And I knew in that moment that he simply wasn’t going to hire me because I was Black.’

‘We were kids. Why would you have a gun in a kid’s face?’

You get really frustrated because you know you didn’t do anything. You’re guilty before you’re proven innocent, so now you have to prove your innocence.

Kel Smith, 37, is a mental health counselor who lives in Norfolk, Virginia. As a Black man, he’s known since he was a teenager that he was more likely to get pulled over by the police while driving – and that every stop had the potential to be fatal. He recalls one night as a college student in California when...

Princeton University’s board has voted to remove the name of former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson from the university’s prestigious School of Public and International Affairs due to his “racist thinking and policies.”

‘I have a bachelor’s degree in nursing and I have a master’s degree. And I still wasn’t good enough to provide care for her because of my skin color.’

Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Chicago have voiced outrage at the company after the facility offered employees “an authentic meal” of chicken and waffles in celebration of Juneteenth.

Quaker Oats announced on Tuesday that they would be rebranding its Aunt Jemima brand of pancake mix and syrup, saying the company recognizes the character’s origins are “based on racial stereotypes.”

Uche Bean shares the story of a traffic stop that revealed her children’s budding fear of the police.

‘Mommy, I don’t want anything to happen to you. I’m scared because the police shoot people.’