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A Black woman has filed a civil rights suit on behalf of her daughter against Los Angeles Unified and the Board of Education, alleging the girl suffered emotional distress after a cotton picking field was set up at her Hollywood school in 2017 as an instructional tool about what life was like for slaves.

Residents were outraged when the text messages surfaced in social media posts.

Mental health expert Sheila Robinson-Kiss takes her daughter to Sesame Place every summer. When the 10-year-old became aware of social media posts alleging bias against Black children at the theme park, she was heartbroken. In a conversation with LX News host Ashley Holt, Robinson-Kiss shares how she discussed the issue with her daughter and offers advice to other parents.

Kelly Rowland, Wendell Pierce, Yvette Nicole Brown and more reacted to a viral video of a Sesame Place character seemingly ignoring two Black girls during their parade.

Soprano Angel Blue says she won’t perform in an opera in Italy this month because blackface was used in the staging of another work this summer.

Lewis Hamilton said “archaic mindsets” have to change after retired Formula One champion Nelson Piquet reportedly used a racial slur against him.

News4’s Aimee Cho reports on Loudoun County’s effort to deal with a rise in hate speech and racism in schools.

The racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory was once on the fringe, but is becoming more mainstream in American politics and on Fox News, explains Oren Segal of the ADL Center on Extremism. “It completely neglects the fact that this is a country made up of immigrants,” Segal said.

A sociology professor at the University of Maryland says data shows a rise in domestic terrorism motivated by racism.

A sociology professor at the University of Maryland says data shows a rise in domestic terrorism motivated by racism. “Every three out of four domestic terrorist murders are committed by right-wing extremists, and overwhelmingly, these are white nationalists and white supremacists,” said Dr. Rashawn Ray, who is a fellow at The Brookings Institution. Ray says the “replacement theory” referred to…

The “great replacement” theory, also known as “white replacement” theory, is the false idea that white Americans are being systematically replaced by nonwhite people for control of the country, and it’s existed on the fringes of racist ideology for centuries. In the wake of a deadly Buffalo shooting motivated by white resentment, Dr. Jonathan Metzl explains how it moved into...

The Nash family says they’re upset with how the Kaufman County Constable’s Office handled what they call a ‘racially-motivated’ incident caught on camera.

Americans are deeply divided over how much children in K-12 schools should be taught about racism and sexuality.

The white woman was hit with a felony hate crime charge for allegedly wrongly accusing the then-14-year-old son of a noted jazz musician of taking her phone and lunging at him.

This article was updated on March 25, 2022, at 3:56 p.m. ET. As the Russia-Ukrainian conflict surpasses the one-month mark, over 3.5 million Ukrainians have fled the violence. Most of them have traveled to fellow European countries, but on Wednesday, President Biden announced the U.S. would admit as many as 100,000 Ukrainians. Biden also plans to meet with Ukrainian refugees…

Between 1888 and 1934, there were 134 Black-owned banks. Today, there are only 20 Black-owned banks that qualify as Minority Depository Institutions.

Columbia University suspended the head of its psychiatry department Wednesday night after comments he made on Twitter about a model’s skin color, calling her a “freak of nature.”

A Massachusetts Montessori school apologized and fired a teacher for instructing young children to make and wear Blackface masks as a Black History Month project. The incident, which happened in a classroom with toddlers, took place last Tuesday at IC Kids in Newton. When one mother, Nadirah Pierce, picked up her children and learned what had happened, she complained and…

To help younger generations achieve success, several Black leaders from academia, business and finance recently shared their vision for the future with CNBC.

People anonymously interrupted a community meeting on Zoom, aiming racist language at Montgomery County Council member Will Jawando.