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Boston Black Church Leaders Call For Local Churches To Pay Reparations
An organization called the Boston People's Reparations Commission, led by members of some of the black Christian churches in the…
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Construction Worker Who Hung Confederate Flag To Undergo Diversity Training
A construction worker who hung a Confederate flag at a Massachusetts Department of Transportation highway construction site in Fitchburg will not be…
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Vermont High School Drops Colonels Mascot, Says It’s Racist
Brattleboro Union High School will have a new mascot next year. The Windham Southeast School Board voted 5-0 on Tuesday, June…
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Forty-Five Black Students Groups Demand Action From Harvard University In Response To Dorm-Related Incident
Forty-five black student groups at Harvard University have signed a letter complaining about the university's reaction to police treatment…
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Massachusetts Residents Split On Banning American Indian Mascots, Poll Shows
Should Massachusetts ban high schools and colleges from using American Indian mascots and team names? It is an issue that divides the…
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LeBron Calls Celtics Fans Racist
Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James had harsh words for Boston Celtics fans on Friday. James was asked why he hates Boston…
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Vermont State Rep Says He’s Proud To Be White
At least one member of the Vermont state legislature is proud to be a member of his race. Republican state representative Brian…
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Left-Wing Candidates Win Milton School Committee Seats Amid Flap Over Race-and-Sexuality Survey of Students
Left-of-center candidates won two open seats on the Milton School Committee in a hotly contested race Tuesday. Elizabeth Carroll and…
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Dedham Football Coach Sues School Officials, Says Objections To Black Lives Matter Material Led To Firing
A high school football coach fired after raising objections to pro-Black Lives Matter material in his daughter's seventh grade…
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Is the National Football League Hopelessly Racist? Why Using ‘Disparate Impact’ as Evidence of Racism is Ludicrous
At every game this season in the National Football League, we were treated to propaganda emblazoned on the turf behind the end…
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Vermont To Offer Free Hunting and Fishing Licenses … If You’re The Right Race
Want to go hunting or fishing in Vermont? Well, depending on the color of your skin, you might be able to get…
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Deval Patrick Says: ‘I’m So Tired Of White People Being Comfortable’
Are you white? If the answer is yes, then former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick might not be too happy with you right…
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Massachusetts Residents Support Black Lives Matter Movement, Think Racism Bigger Issue That Coronavirus, Poll Says
In Massachusetts, there is overwhelming support for the Black Lives Matter movement, according to a recent poll conducted by Suffolk University. It…
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White Hiring Managers Are Rejecting Black Candidates Because of Racial Bias, Corporate Executive Says
Corporate decision makers often pick a white candidate for a job over an equally qualified black candidate because of unconscious bias based…
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Liberal Newspaper Posts Online Poll Asking If Confederate Flag Should ‘Be Banned in U.S.’
The web site of The Portsmouth Herald in New Hampshire has posted an online poll asking readers if the Confederate flag should…
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Second-Grader’s Racially Tinged Remark Sparks Calls For Action
A second-grade boy whom a school principal overheard saying he didn't want to invite an African-American kindergartner to…
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Praising Asians’ Work Ethic Is ‘A Creation of White Supremacy,’ Activist Says
Less than a week before Harvard College goes to trial with an Asian-American group suing the school on a claim of…
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NAACP Official Accuses University of Hiring New President For His Fund-Raising Abilities
Diversity and inclusion don't seem to have been as important to trustees of the University of New Hampshire when it…
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Bank Drops Indian Chief Logo — Even Though No One Had Complained About It
Mascoma Bank, of Lebanon, New Hampshire, has used an image of an American Indian spearing a fish from a canoe as its…
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Middle-Schooler Cries Foul on Indian Street Names; Residents Fight Back
The Framingham City Council considered and then shot down a proposal by a middle school student to change the names of streets…
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‘Unpacking Whiteness’ in Elementary Schools
A program that pays for "volunteers" in the public elementary schools in Manchester, New Hampshire hosted workshops on "Unpacking…
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Somali Maine Cop Arrested At Concert Claims Racial Profiling
The 24-year-old woman is the first Somali police officer in Maine — Portland, as it happens. She was at a concert…
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GQ: Blue Lives Don’t Matter
GQ Magazine, in a desperate attempt to remain relevant, has decided to go all in on the anti-police movement largely embraced…
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Scott Brown Investigated for Telling Samoans They Look Beautiful
Scott Brown, the former U.S. senator from Massachusetts and current U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, said the U.…
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Goodbye Jefferson Davis, Hello Barack Obama for Mississippi Elementary School
School officials at predominantly black Davis IB Elementary School in Jackson, Mississippi have decided to rename the school after Barack Obama, the…
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Patriots Should Sign Colin Kaepernick?
The embattled quarterback who started the National Football League's kneel-during-the-National-Anthem trend last year doesn't…
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White Supremacist Horse Shows What Confederate Statues Mess Is Really All About
It's time for us to take a lesson from Black Lives Matter: Do … not … engage.…
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Today’s False Charges of Racism Echo Soviet Communists
When and how did it become acceptable to make a false accusation that someone is racist? For adherents of religions that revere…
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Student Election Tampering At Elite Prep School Leads To Expulsions, Claims of Race and Sex Discrimination
Three students were expelled from Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire after stuffing the ballot box in favor of a particular…
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‘White People Are Fragile,’ Says High School Student Activist
The student at South Burlington High School in Vermont is leading the charge against the school's Rebels nickname, which has…
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UNH Students Boycott Final Exams Over Poncho-Wearing, Blackface Incidents
One white student wore a poncho on Cinco de Mayo, and another white student wore a bedtime mask that was identified as…
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Trump Responded To White Nationalists’ Worry About ‘Fracturing of Whiteness,’ Tufts Speaker Says
U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan's proposed replacement for Obamacare could also further the white supremacists' cause, the UCLA…
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No-Whites-Allowed Space Demanded At University of Michigan
A new $10 million campus center for black students being built isn't enough "because we want a space solely…
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Portland Superintendent Ties Attack on Black Students to Trump
The superintendent of schools in Portland, Maine sent school affiliates a letter describing an attack on four black students by an adult…
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MLK Scholar in Maine: Teach That Racism Is Bedrock of US History
Slavery is "the quintessential American story," said Khalil Gibran Muhammad during a speech at an event honoring Martin Luther King…
