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Black riders in Seattle and Boston get longer wait times and more canceled rides.Adam Berry/Getty Images If you have a distinctively black-sounding name, you are more than twice as likely to have your Uber trip canceled than if you had a white-sounding name, a new study reports. For black men, the same study found,…
Enlarge this image South Korean adoptee Adam Crapser poses with his 1-year-old daughter, Christal, in the family’s living room in Vancouver, Wash., in 2015. Crapser, who was flown to the U.S. 37 years ago and adopted by an American couple at age 3, has been ordered deported back to South Korea. Gosia Wozniacka/AP hide…
At least 150 armed white men have seized control of a federal building outside of Burns, Oregon. They are led by a cadre which includes Ammon and Ryan Bundy. They are the sons of Cliven Bundy, the rancher who led a successful armed rebellion against federal law enforcement officers in Nevada last year. Since that…
At first, it looks like the same old act. What could be more natural than a coiffed and bellicose Donald Trump, addressing a raucous crowd on a Friday afternoon in Manchester, New Hampshire, that great white-frustration campaign Mecca he blew through like a hurricane nine months ago during primary season? “It is terrific…
Nate Parker as “Nat Turner” in THE BIRTH OF A NATION. Jahi Chikwendiu/FOX Searchlight movies Difficult ‘Birth’ How the troubling gender politics of Nate Parker’s ‘The Birth of a Nation’ were sidelined by two years of #OscarsSoWhite .share Back in January, Nate Parker was The Savior. Anointed with prizes by both the audience and the…
Nate Parker has made a series of demonstrably foolish public statements in the months leading up to the release of The Birth of A Nation, a film that postures itself as a revolutionary story about Nat Turner’s Virginia slave revolt. As Parker trudges his way through a promo trail for a film that many agree…
Colin Kaepernick’s Protest Is Working His quiet gesture was precision engineered to accomplish exactly what it’s accomplished. /header The 49ers’ Eric Reid and Colin Kaepernick during the national anthem prior to the game against the Chargers at Qualcomm Stadium on Sept. 1, 2016, in San Diego, California.Michael Zagaris/San Francisco 49ers/Getty Images On Sunday, the Kansas…
When RyMingTahn Daniels did her test, she was shocked to find out that 26% of her DNA is of British origin. She talks in her video about feeling like there were secrets in her family. “I was so confused,” she said. “DNA doesn’t lie, but people can.” Many people who identify as black express confusion…
During a time of rising racial tension, ham-fisted tweets and in-app moments of silence don’t cut it. By Max Becherer/A.P. Images. Last weekend, protesters gathered to rally at the Baton Rouge police department, the Louisiana State Capitol, and the convenience store where, days earlier, 37-year-old Alton Sterling, a black man, was shot at point-blank range…
Enlarge this image A new study out of Yale found that pre-K teachers, white and black alike, spend more time watching black boys, expecting trouble. LA Johnson/NPR hide caption toggle caption LA Johnson/NPR A new study out of Yale found that pre-K teachers, white and black alike, spend more time watching black…