For more than a century, people were taken from their homelands and exhibited in human zoos. They were displayed alongside animals. This little known and deeply disturbing part of colonial history played an important part in the development of modern racism.

'Driving While Black,' a documentary on PBS by Gretchen Soren and Ric Burns, is a stunning film about transportation and racism in the United States.

When machine learning and the use of computers are emphasized in artistic research, in reconstructions, or in beauty contests, viewers often take the results to be scientific, objective, and unbiased. But they are not.

Decades before the Milwaukee Bucks' walkout brought the playoffs to a halt, a few NBA pioneers took a similarly brave stand against racial injustice.

When President Donald Trump responded to a question about Black people who have died at the hands of U.S. law enforcement by focusing his attention on white victims, he was engaging in a “grotesque” misdirection, says Matt Miller, a Northeastern professor who studies gun violence. “Black people are more likely to be killed per capita by law enforcement than are white people,” Miller says.

Lofthouse confirmed he stepped down from IT firm Solid8 this week, adding that his comments were “racist, hurtful and deeply inappropriate.”

According to Google, internet searches for the phrase “Am I racist” have hit an all-time high. In the past month, articles with this phrase in the title have popped up at CNN, The Hill, Thrive and Medium. It seems that now more than ever, people (especially White people) are turning their gaze inward and asking this important question.

If racism were thought of as a mental disorder, would it help the efforts to make the world a less racist place, or make them harder?

When a young Southern Baptist pastor named Alan Cross arrived in Montgomery, Ala., in January 2000, he knew it was where the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. had his first church and where Rosa Parks helped launched the famous bus boycott, but he didn't know some other details of the city's role in civil rights history.

A British royal historian who said slavery was not genocide has quit his honorary position at Cambridge University and been dropped by his publisher HarperCollins. The comments from Professor David Starkey came during a period of soul searching in Britain over its colonial past.

No more General Lee in Forza games.

Recently, I saw a friend post an alarming pro-Police copypasta and say that “White Privilege” isn’t real. In response, I have written an essay that addresses Systemic Racism that I think everyone can benefit from. You will find the text of the copy pasta and my rebuttal including sources for my claims below. This is long but I implore you to be an active participant in the discourse.

The level of racial bias in American policing is overwhelming. Between 2012 and 2018, US police killed more Black men in their 20s than diabetes, pneumonia, chronic respiratory disease, or cerebrovascular disease.

What a moment.

A white man stabbed a Black man multiple times outside a Texas bar after making several racist comments, police said. Montana Amburn, 27, was taken into custody following the Wednesday night incident at Mickey’s Pub in Mineral Wells, about 50 miles west of Fort Worth. He was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, police said in a press release.

Because there seem to be a lot of people out there who refuse to acknowledge that the colour of their skin has benefitted them in any way.

Over-policing traps Aboriginal Australians in the criminal justice system, but it’s hard to get a handle on the problem. In Victoria, despite a commitment to begin mandatory recording of ethnic appearance descriptors in police interactions with the public, the force has refused to make the data public.

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna announced today that the company would no longer sell facial recognition services, calling for a “national dialogue” on whether it should be used at all. He also voiced support for a new bill aiming to reduce police violence and increase accountability.

Last week, my family and I attended an interfaith rally in Los Angeles in defense of Black life. We performed a group ritual in which we made noise for nine minutes to mark the last moments of George Floyd’s life. My wife, my oldest daughter, and I played African drums to mark those nine minutes with the rhythm of a beating heart. Da-dum, da-dum, da-dum, over and over again.

"This is how they mourn the loss of black men at #FoxNews - by how much the stock market goes up. What. The. Hell!," former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele tweeted.