Police are investigating a potential hate crime after anti-Polish signs were allegedly handed out just hours after Britain backed Brexit. A Polish primary school pupil said he found three or four of the signs outside his school in Cambridgeshire on Friday morning. The statement on the cards reads: “Leave the EU. No more Polish vermin”, and "go home Polish scum", translated into Polish on the back. The 11-year-old told the Cambridge News: “The teaching assistants were picking them up and throwing them away because they thought they were really racist. I felt really sad.”

Google has banned an extension of its Chrome browser which was being used to identify Jewish names on the internet by surrounding them with three sets of brackets, or parentheses. Those identified were then subjected to anti-semitic abuse via social media. The symbol has been described as a secret signal because punctuation does not show up in ordinary web searches. Google said that the extension was blocked from its store because it broke its hate speech rules.

Author JK Rowling has described people who criticised the casting of a black actress as Hermione in the new Harry Potter play as "a bunch of racists". The Harry Potter creator told The Observer that she had "a great deal of difficulty with" their insistence that the character "must be a white woman". Olivier winner Noma Dumezweni "was the best actress for the job," she went on. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child begins previewing at London's Palace Theatre on Tuesday.

Time-travel narratives and bygone bigotry in “11.22.63” and ‘Back to the Future.’ By Mik Awake.

This is a story of an AIRBNB experience I recently went through. I met this awesome lady Crissie in my Facebook Group. Super nice lady, successful business owner, beautiful family, and they live in a small town in Idaho. Crissie would post these amazing videos of the land and the snow, and the mountains and trees, and I told her one day I would come visit. It‘s so absolutely beautiful there!

Ethel Easter arrived at the Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in Houston last year after finding blood in her urine and suffering from excruciating abdominal pain. She was dealing with a hiatal hernia, a condition where the upper part of a person’s stomach punches through the diaphragm into their chest cavity. In her case, the rupture was causing deep internal bruising that was visible from the outside of her stomach.

A 12-year-old Muslim boy accused his teacher of targeting him for his religion by calling him a “terrorist” in front of his peers in the US state of Texas, prompting school authorities to probe the incident. Waleed Abushaaban, a 7th grade student in First Colony Middle School has been the butt of “bomb” jokes and ridicule from his fellow classmates after his teacher made the careless crack, a local TV KHOU.com reported. The teacher allegedly made the comment when her class...

The charges, while appropriate, reveal a whole host of despicable disparities that deserve ample mention.

It's a fact that people of color are worse off than white Americans in all kinds of ways, but there is little agreement on why. Some see those disparities as a consequence of racial discrimination in schools, the courts and the workplace, both in the past and present. Others argue that economic inequalities are really the cause, and that public policy should help the poor no matter their race or ethnicity. When it comes to affirmative...

On CNN's State of the Union, the Republican front-runner was asked if he'd distance himself from the support of former KKK grand wizard David Duke. Trump refused four times, saying, "I don't know."

Polls show attitudes about race impact political opinion.

A Sikh actor has claimed he was barred from boarding an Aeromexico plane because of his turban. Indian-American Waris Ahluwalia, who is also a designer, said he was prevented from boarding after he refused to remove his turban in public. The incident happened during additional security checks before a flight from Mexico City to New York. Aeromexico said it had complied with security protocols and it regretted any "inconvenience".

A children's picture book about George Washington and his slaves has been pulled by publishers Scholastic. A Birthday Cake for George Washington tells the story of Washington's slave Hercules, a cook, and his daughter. It had been criticised for its images of smiling slaves, and described as being "highly problematic".

When he was assassinated in 1968, King was in the midst of waging a radical campaign against economic inequality and protesting the Vietnam War. By Zaid Jilani.

The Peretz-era New Republic's stances on race and foreign policy once were a dissenting branch of liberalism. Now they don't seem liberal at all. By Jonathan M. Ladd.

Hillary Clinton issues a sharp rebuke and national news media react after the governor tells an audience that drug dealers come to Maine from New York and Connecticut and 'half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave.' By Randy Billings. (Jan. 7)

Members of the Ku Klux Klan did not wear their distinctive white uniform until Hollywood—and a mail-order catalog—intervened. By Alison Kinney.

On casual racism in otherwise polite company, and the split-second deliberations that go into deciding how to respond in a no-win scenario. By Nicole Chung.

Two centuries ago, Sarah Baartman died after years spent in European “freak shows.” Now rumours over a possible Hollywood film about Baartman's life have sparked controversy. By Justin Parkinson.

As a kid, I got used to being stopped by the police. I grew up in an inner-ring suburb of St. Louis. It was the kind of place where officers routinely roughed up my friends and family for no good reason. I hated the way cops treated me. But I knew police weren’t all bad. One of my father’s closest friends was a cop. He became a mentor to me and encouraged me to join the force. He told me that I could use the police’s power and resources to help my community.