Tag: Racism

The statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., has been a point of contention for the city.

Richmond commission recommends removal of Jefferson Davis monument

Brooke Conrad · July 2, 2018 6:50 pm

Lawrence Bacow speaks after being introduced Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018, in Cambridge, Mass., as the 29th president of Harvard University. Bacow, former president of Tufts University and a leader-in-residence at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, assumes the office July 1. He will succeed Drew Faust, 70, who has served in the post for more than a decade as Harvard's first female president.

Harvard’s new president rejects claims of discrimination against Asian-Americans

Brooke Conrad · July 2, 2018 4:43 pm

Gilbert Stuart's "George Washington (The Constable-Hamilton Portrait)" from 1797 is shown above.

Beltway Confidential

Don’t judge works of the past by today’s moral standards

Louis Sarkozy · July 2, 2018 4:00 am

Maria Rojas, from West Columbia berates CNN's Jim Acosta, right, before President Trump speaks to the crowd in West Columbia, S.C.

Beltway Confidential

‘Go home’ chants at Jim Acosta weren’t racist

Emily Jashinsky · June 26, 2018 3:49 pm

Viral video shows woman telling landscaper she hates him because he is Mexican, citing Trump

Katelyn Caralle · June 26, 2018 2:37 pm

Corey Stewart, a conservative provocateur and supporter of President Trump won Virginia's Republican primary Tuesday in the U.S. Senate race, and he has promised to run a "vicious" campaign against incumbent Tim Kaine.

GOP Senate candidate: Civil War wasn’t ‘fought over the issue of slavery’

Naomi Lim · June 25, 2018 3:40 pm

David Bossie, president of Citizens United, gestures during South Carolina Freedom Summit hosted by Citizens United and Congressman Jeff Duncan in Greenville, South Carolina, U.S., on Saturday, May 9, 2015. Bossie is on the short list to become President Trump's next chief of staff.

Ex-Trump campaign manager tells black Democrat: ‘You’re out of your cotton-picking mind’

Emma Ayers · June 24, 2018 3:10 pm

In this image released by ABC, Roseanne Barr, left, and John Goodman appear in a scene from the reboot of "Roseanne." The Nielsen company said viewership for the show's premiere shot up to 25 million people when you count people who watched the three days after last Tuesday's premiere. Never before has a show gained that many viewers via time shifting within three days.

ABC announces new ‘Roseanne’ spinoff series without Roseanne Barr

Diana Stancy Correll · June 22, 2018 1:22 am

White nationalist demonstrators clash with counter demonstrators at the entrance to Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va., August 2017. Gov. Terry McAuliffe had declared a state of emergency and police dressed in riot gear ordered people to disperse after chaotic violent clashes between white nationalists and counter protesters.

Beltway Confidential

Why the Charlottesville sequel protest will show America at its best

Tom Rogan · June 21, 2018 5:52 pm

Charlottesville white supremacist protest organizer planning rally in DC

Diana Stancy Correll · June 21, 2018 12:57 am

Dr. Herbert Hodes

Al Sharpton: Trump wouldn’t implement zero tolerance immigration policy at Canadian border

Laura Barrón-López · June 19, 2018 7:52 pm

In wake of racial controversies, Cal Poly implements segregated ‘Diversity Action Initiatives’

Brendan Pringle · June 18, 2018 9:37 pm