It depends on what counts as a mass shooting — and the typical definition leaves out some pretty bad attacks. By German Lopez.

Many people were surprised when President Donald Trump suggested that NFL team owners fire players who quietly choose to sit out the national anthem before games, but I was not one of them.

Racial slurs were written on the dormitory message boards of five black cadet candidates at the Air Force Academy Preparatory School earlier this week. Lt. Col. Allen Herritage, director of public affairs for the academy, said the slurs were discovered Monday. One cadet candidate’s mother posted a photo on her Facebook page Wednesday that shows the words “go home n*****r” written on the white board outside her son’s room.

A Pennsylvania fire chief used a slur against black NFL protesters for sitting out the national anthem — just like Donald Trump.

Three black detectives in the New York Police Department‘s intelligence division filed a federal lawsuit against the department on Monday, saying they were denied promotions because of their race and that lesser-qualified white officers were promoted instead.

American football is essentially a game played by black men for the entertainment of white men, but fans are switching off.

Memphis, a majority black city, can't take down a statue honoring Nathan Bedford Forrest because state law blocks the removal of Confederate monuments. By Liliana Segura. (Sept. 2, 2017)

A Tennessee town’s absurd and tacky monument to General Nathan Bedford Forrest. By Connor Towne O'Neill.

Trump is playing a dangerous game by mainstreaming "constitutional sheriffs" like Joe Arpaio and David Clarke. By Bridgette Dunlap.

In June 2015, he shot and murdered nine black church-goers in Charleston, South Carolina, hoping to ignite a race war. Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah spoke with Roof's family, friends, and the victims' families to unlock what created one of the coldest killers of our time.

America as the harbinger of the Nazis’ race laws. By Oded Heilbronner.

The 22-year-old man suspected of shooting five middle-aged white men since last year — including four on south Kansas City walking trails — threatened in 2014 to shoot up a school and “kill all white people,” according to court records.

A Georgia police officer has been accused of making racist statements to a woman during a traffic stop, telling her the officers “only kill black people.” Dash-cam video shows the Cobb County police officer, who has been identified by local news organizations as police Lt. Greg Abbott, standing outside a vehicle during a DUI traffic stop in July 2016.

Maze Jackson and journalist Charles Thomas took to the air to defend a controversial cartoon on the Illinois Policy Institute's website during a recent edition of Chicago's WVON "Morning Show." The cartoon, which depicts a cigar-chomping white man in a suit and a black child sitting on a street corner holding a hat that reads...

As soon as Theo Wilson started making YouTube videos about culture and race, trolls using racial slurs started flocking to his page. After engaging in endless sparring matches in the comments section, Wilson began to notice something curious: His trolls seemed to speak a language unto themselves, one replete with the same twisted facts and false history. It was as if they had all passed through some “dimensional doorway,” arriving from an alternative universe where history, politics and commonly accepted facts had been turned inside out.

A man who attended the white supremacist march in Charlottesville has told how his “life is over” after being publicly identified. Jarrod Kuhn was identified as a “nazi” after an anti-fascist group posted 250 fliers around the Honeoye Falls area of New York in the aftermath of the Virginia bloodshed...

Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) has bowed to pressure and cancelled a booking for a “neo-nazi” conference which was set to take place on one of its ships. Rebel Media, a far-right group based in Canada, had planned to hold a week-long meeting on-board a NCL Caribbean Cruise. The trip was scheduled to leave in November from Miami and would take in Honduras, Belize, and Mexico.

The city of Syracuse has denied a permit requested by ACT for America to hold a rally next month to support President Donald Trump's immigration, refugee and border policies, according to a spokesman for the mayor's office. ACT for America, which has been labeled an extremist anti-Muslim group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that tracks hate groups, says it will hold "America First" rallies across the country on Sept. 9, including one in Syracuse. Scott Presler, lead activism strategist for ACT for America, told Syracuse.com in June that the group is not anti-Muslim.

Every time there is a high profile racist incident in America, we all must huddle together to assure ourselves that at least we are not racists. The operating definition of racism needs an overhaul.

Hatred starts at home. By Mark Oliver.