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Syracuse University has a new development in its latest string of racist incidents. On Sunday morning, the university suspended all social activities at fraternities after a group of students, including members of the fraternity Alpha Chi Rho, called a Black female student a racial slur on Saturday night. The altercation…
After the El Paso, Tx. shooting that claimed the lives of 20 people and injured dozens of others in a Wal-Mart in the border city, some of those injured have been driving themselves home instead of going to the hospital out of fear of ICE agents. “This is a concern,”…
Jeremy and Gina Miller have been married for 13 years. He is white and she’s Black. They have five children with a sixth on the way, all of whom are homeschooled. The couple describes themselves as deeply religious, according to local news. They both own Local Realty and have dozens…
Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló (D) has thousands of people all over the world protesting him after leaked messages between Rosselló and administration officials showed Rosselló using the word “faggot” repeatedly to refer to political rivals. Officials also referred to rivals as with other derogatory terms and implied that they were…
It all started with conservative, racist, homophobic comedian Steven Crowder. Vox reporter Carlos Maza, who writes the program Strikethrough, finally couldn’t take it anymore. He put together a video montage drawn from Crowder’s YouTube program with frequent remarks that ridicule Maza’s sexual orientation and race and it went viral on…
As it is tradition for most American families, Natalie Weaver shared a Christmas photo of her family on Facebook. The photo included her 10-year-old daughter, Sophia, who has Rett syndrome, a neurological disorder, which causes facial, hand and feet deformities. Weaver is a well-known advocate for children with disabilities. She…
A video of a homophobic man verbally harassing a lesbian couple has made its way around the Internet. What’s not caught on camera, though, is a police officer refusing to document the incident. Trudy and Wendy Dragoon are married and living in Oregon. The women were trying to reunite a…
A former State Department employee’s resignation letter went viral due to its hidden message calling for President Donald Trump’s impeachment. Dr. Daniel Kammen posted his letter, dated Aug. 23, on Twitter. He confirmed in an email to DiversityInc that spelling “impeach” was indeed intentional. Mr. President, I am resigning as…
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a report on Friday revealing that it has collected 701 incidents of hate in the week directly following the election, from November 9 to November 16. Also on Friday, the FBI released its annual hate crimes report, revealing that 5,818 single-bias incidents occurred…
Following the election of Donald Trump on November 9, incidents of “hateful intimidation and harassment” have occurred in record numbers, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). As of November 14 the group has collected 437 reports just since the election. “Since Donald Trump won the election we’ve seen…