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A White Maryland student is under fire after a 30-second video of a racist rant against the Black Matter movement went viral.

After news that a White actor was cast to play Michael Jackson on a British TV comedy series surfaced this week, an old interview featuring the King of Pop himself has confirmed what we already knew: White actors shouldn’t portray Black people – period. It was announced Wednesday that Joseph Fiennes – of Shakespeare in Love and American Horror Story: […]

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Saying he "did something stupid and wrong," the White president of the Maricopa County chapter of the NAACP on Wednesday apologized for making a sexist comment following a meeting on racial sensitivity, reports the Huffington Post.

The teens claim the act was intended to be a joke for one of the girls' boyfriends, who is Black.

A group of military students at the Citadel who dressed up as Ku Klux Klan members in a viral photo in December were punished for the act this week.

The Denver District Attorney declined to charge the police officers involved in the death of a mentally ill man named Michael Lee Marshall, prompting the family to call for a federal investigation on Friday, KDVR reports.  The incident occurred in November 2015 when Marshall–a reported homeless paranoid schizophrenic–was arrested for trespassing. While in custody at the station, police claim […]

Alan Newton spent years in a legal battle with the city after he was released from jail in 2006, the NY Daily News reports.

Actress and Fox News pundit Stacey Dash has a new ally for her controversial comments about the Oscars' lingering diversity problem -- Donald Trump.

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Gynnya McMillen was discovered unconscious at the Lincoln Village Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Elizabethtown, Ky.

Whiteness History Month is actually a thing, at least at a college in Portland, Ore.