racism

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.

A Connecticut woman who says she’s descended from enslaved people portrayed in widely-published, historical photos owned by Harvard can sue the Ivy League university for emotional distress, Massachusetts’ highest court ruled Thursday. The state’s Supreme Judicial Court partly vacated a lower court ruling that dismissed a complaint from Tamara Lanier over photos she says depict her enslaved ancestors. The...

Author and expert Dr. Ibram Kendi is coming to the Wilbur to discuss raising your kids to be an antiracist.

A Maine town has condemned a “disgraceful” sign posted in a window that mocked Juneteenth using racist stereotypes of Black people. The sign on a business window in Millinocket said of Juneteenth, the federal holiday that marks the end of slavery in the United States, “it’s whatever… We’re closed.” That was followed by a reference to foods that have...

Several Massachusetts state representatives on Tuesday condemned a text message they said was sent by a local plumbers union that referred to the Juneteenth holiday with a racist comment about Black people. The text message had been sent to members of Plumbers Local 12 to remind them of the Juneteenth holiday, according to state Rep. Bud L. Williams, D-Hampden. He…

Mayor Carlo DeMaria announced the resignations of City Councilor Anthony DiPierro and Communications Director Deanna Deveney on the Massachusetts city’s Facebook page Monday.

An embattled Everett city councilor and the mayor’s spokeswoman have resigned following intense backlash over reports they made racist comments. Mayor Carlo DeMaria announced the resignations of City Councilor Anthony DiPierro and Communications Director Deanna Deveney on the Massachusetts city’s Facebook page Monday. “Recently, we have been faced with inexcusable conduct of elected officials and City employees that violates...

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.

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...

Replacement theory seems to be at least part of what motivated the man who opened fire at grocery store in Buffalo, New York over the weekend. He shot 13 people, killing 10 of them. “Once again we have a community that has been rocked to its core by not only a mass shooting but a racially motivated mass shooting.” Tanisha…

Spread largely online, replacement theory is a concept pushed by white supremacists which claims whites are systematically being replaced by people of color.

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.

City councilors in Everett, Massachusetts, met Monday night with two scandals hanging over their legislative body. One member of the Everett City Council is accused of inappropriately touching a colleague, and another allegedly sent racist imagery to city workers. Jimmy Tri Le appeared in Malden District Court last month and pleaded not guilty to indecent assault and battery charges. After…

For the first time after City Councilor Jimmy Tri Le appeared in court over allegations of indecent assault and battery on a colleague, the council held a meeting.

School officials in Franklin, Massachusetts, are investigating after a report that fans hurled racist, antisemitic and homophobic slurs at high school athletes Thursday. In a letter addressed to the Franklin High School community Friday, Principal Joshua Hanna said the incident occurred a day earlier at a baseball game against Sharon High School. He said spectators watching from left field used…

Attorney General Maura Healey’s office found that school officials failed in their response to racist, homophobic and antisemitic behavior by high school hockey players in Danvers.