Tag: Racism

Packages of Land O'Lakes butter are shown at a grocery store on Nov. 12, 2019, in Doral, Florida.

Land O’Lakes ditches iconic Native American butter maiden logo after nearly a century

Emma Colton · April 16, 2020 7:03 pm

A McDonald's sign is displayed outside the fast food restaurant in Wheeling, Ill., Thursday, April 9, 2020. McDonald's executives took pay cuts as the coronavirus pandemic caused March sales to plunge.

McDonald’s apologizes after store in China displays sign banning black people

John Gage · April 14, 2020 9:48 pm

13-year-old who called himself ‘Commander’ was key figure in neo-Nazi group: Authorities

Zach Halaschak · April 14, 2020 9:45 pm

Chinese President Xi Jinping waves to students and audience after his lecture at Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, July 4, 2014. With a single meeting Thursday, the leaders of China and South Korea simultaneously snubbed North Korea, bolstered their already booming trade relationship and gave the U.S. and Japan a look at Beijing's growing influence south of the Korean Demilitarized Zone. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Beltway Confidential

We’re all in this together. Well, unless you’re African

Tom Rogan · April 14, 2020 5:55 pm

during a qualifying run for the NASCAR Daytona 500 auto race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Fla., Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017.

‘No excuse’: NASCAR star suspended after using n-word during virtual race

Zach Halaschak · April 13, 2020 9:10 pm

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the winner of a Democratic Congressional primary in New York, greets a passerby in New York, Wednesday, June 27, 2018, the morning after she upset U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley in Tuesday's primary election.

AOC claims ‘environmental racism’ is a ‘preexisting condition’ amid coronavirus pandemic

Emma Colton · April 12, 2020 3:38 pm

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, speaks during South by Southwest on Saturday, March 9, 2019, in Austin, Texas.

AOC: New Yorkers are ‘too scared’ to go to hospital because of Trump’s ‘xenophobic COVID response’

Spencer Neale · April 11, 2020 4:45 pm

Respected scientific journal issues apology for associating coronavirus with China over racism fears

Andrew Mark Miller · April 9, 2020 6:54 pm

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks at a campaign stop for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., at La Poste, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, in Perry, Iowa.

‘A class and race issue’: AOC slams Cuomo for suspending mortgage payments but not rent

John Gage · April 1, 2020 6:42 pm

Seattle police chief tells residents to dial 911 if they experience ‘racist name calling’

Andrew Mark Miller · April 1, 2020 4:35 pm

‘Designed to stigmatize people of Asian descent’: Susan Rice scolds Pompeo for using term ‘Wuhan virus’

Zach Halaschak · March 31, 2020 7:50 pm

FBI warns of possible surge in hate crimes against Asian Americans as coronavirus spreads

Caitlin Yilek · March 27, 2020 3:18 pm