An Israeli newspaper noted this week that two of the 17 suspects detained in the armed jewelry heist of Kim Kardashian West were Jewish, and for one Palestinian Authority television commentator this was enough to blame the heist on “the Jews.” “Jews who robbed singer (sic.) Kim Kardashian have been arrested. It turns out that they are Jews,” Fayez Abbas, a so-called “Israel Affairs expert” hosted by the channel, said on the show “Palestine This Morning” on Wednesday.

The entire racist radical right may be working to rebrand under the “Alt-Right” banner, a meme-crazed digital wing of the white nationalist movement known for online harassment campaigns. But they haven’t managed to get over the infighting and hypocrisy that has riddled the movement for decades. By Keegan Hankes.

A group of Morris dancers have been forced to abandon a performance after they were allegedly accused of being racist for painting their faces black. The group from Alvechurch are said to have been threatened by a minority of onlookers during their performances on Corporation Street and New Street in Birmingham on Saturday. The dancers were celebrating Plough Monday - the traditional start of the agricultural year.

A Dairy Queen restaurant in the north suburbs has been closed by corporate after a mother says the franchise owner called her and her children a racial slur. "He was proud, he used the word freely when talking to the officer," said Deia Ford, 21. Ford, a mother of two, said she went to Dairy Queen in Zion for food Wednesday morning. She said she didn't receive her full order and asked for a refund, and did not expect what happened next when the franchise owner Jim Crichton approached her.

Their key concern is race, as they embrace slippery use of irony and sense of hip elitism. By Angela Nagle.

In the wake of Charleston’s church massacre, James Baldwin’s classic essay rings true nearly 60 years later. By Tony Bartelme.

The country’s first black president never pursued policies bold enough to close the racial wealth gap. By William A. Darity, Jr.

True or False: Gender oppression is way worse than racial oppression... By Deesha Philyaw.

Adam Saleh, a YouTube star, accused Delta of kicking him off a flight Tuesday morning for speaking Arabic to his mom and friend. It turns out he was doing a lot more than just that, according to a statement by Delta. Upon landing the crew was debriefed and multiple passenger statements collected. Based on the information collected to date, it appears the customers who were removed sought to disrupt the cabin with provocative behavior, including shouting. This type of conduct is not welcome on any Delta flight.

At first there was outrage. Kimberly Houzah told everyone watching her Facebook Live video to boycott Victoria’s Secret. She pledged to call the store’s corporate headquarters and report the racist behavior she’d just been subjected to. She told her friends that she’ll never set foot inside the store again, even if “I’m down to my last pair of drawers.” Then, she began to sob.

In today’s racially charged environment, there’s a label that even the KKK disavows: white supremacy. By Jay Reeves.

Civil rights group tracks nearly 900 cases of assaults, intimidation, and harassment in 10 days after election win.

The student government of Queen’s University has condemned a recent party attended by undergraduates that involved wearing stereotypical national costumes, photos of which have elicited heated criticism on social media for their “racist” depictions of foreign cultures. The Saturday event featured mostly white students dressed as Middle Eastern sheiks, Viet Cong guerrillas, Buddhist monks and dreadlocked Rastafarians, among other cultural groups.

They come to India for higher education, but what they find is racism. Photography by Mahesh Shantaram.

The number of hate crimes reported to police increased by about 6.7 percent last year, led largely by a 67 percent surge in crimes against Muslims, according to FBI statistics released Monday. Civil rights groups had been raising concerns about an anti-Muslim backlash in the U.S. even before the terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, late in the year. The reporting period covers calendar year 2015, but comes at a time of heightened tensions following last week's presidential election.

What may seem like a dramatic rise in the number of hate harassment and hate incidents happening across the country in the wake of Tuesday’s general election is not in anyone’s imagination, experts say… By Melanie Eversley.

There are still no national monuments to the thousands of black Americans killed during a century of lynchings. But for 12 years, activists in Georgia have been re-enacting the infamous 1946 murders of two black men and their wives.

Mass purging of black Democrats from voter rolls and African Americans’ low early voting turnout raises concerns for Hillary Clinton supporters in swing states. By Sabrina Siddiqui and Richard Luscombe.

Throughout his campaign for president of the United States, Republican nominee Donald Trump has time and time again denigrated Muslim communities living on American soil and abroad. Trump’s critics have underscored how promoting the prejudicial treatment of Muslims only helps to strengthen anti-American Islamist organizations. By targeting Muslims, the arguments go, Trump inadvertently validates claims made by groups such as Islamic State and al-Qaeda about the inevitable mistreatment of Muslims by the US, regardless of whether or not they are law-abiding citizens.

For all he gets wrong on race, the Republican nominee got one thing right: The Democratic Party does take black Americans for granted, and that’s a problem. By Nikole Hannah-Jones.