racism

Andrew Gillum, the Democratic candidate for Florida governor, speaks Friday during a campaign rally in Orlando.

Florida Election Is Latest Target Of White Supremacist Robocalls

9:25pm September 03, 2018

by Emily Sullivan

The calls feature a narrator speaking in a minstrel voice, posing as Andrew Gillum, a black Democrat gubernatorial nominee in Florida. The calls are linked to a neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic podcast.

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Race

UPDATE: White Man Who Called Police On Black Woman At Pool No Longer Employed At His Job

9:59am July 06, 2018

by Associated Press and Eddie Garcia

A white man who challenged a black family's right to use a neighborhood pool in Winston-Salem is no longer employed at his job.

Elgin Baylor stands next to a statue honoring the Minneapolis and Los Angeles Lakers players, outside Staples Center in Los Angeles on April 6.

Sports
Books

Elgin Baylor's 'Hang Time' Addresses Racism And His Basketball Career

12:52pm June 01, 2018

Throughout his life, legendary basketball player Elgin Baylor suffered through many racial indignities, which are detailed, along with his career, in his book, Hang Time.

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Customers sit on the patio of a Chicago Starbucks store after it was closed on May 29.

National

'I'm Not Aware Of That': Starbucks Employees Receive Racial Bias Training

7:25pm May 29, 2018

by Joel Rose

Starbucks closed thousands of stores across the country Tuesday for racial bias training. The sessions were closed to the public, but the company hosted an event for reporters in New York.

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Jessica Jones spends her Friday evening mini-golfing at East Potomac Park Mini Golf.

How Mini-Golf Played A Big Role In Desegregating Public Rec Spaces

10:29am May 28, 2018

by Mikaela Lefrak

Washington, D.C., is home to one of the oldest continuously running mini-golf courses in the U.S. The sport became popular in the early 1900s, when there were more than 25,000 courses nationwide.

Ibrar Hussein Mirzai, an 18-year-old Afghan, has received asylum in Hungary and hopes to eventually gain Hungarian citizenship. He is aware that Hungarians don't like refugees. "I am a normal person just like them," he says.

Hungary Has A Xenophobia Problem

5:59am April 27, 2018

by Joanna Kakissis

Just 10 percent of Hungarians polled say they feel totally comfortable making friends with an immigrant. In a survey, Hungarians even rejected a group that doesn't exist.

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Yawkey Way, outside Fenway Park, was named for the late, former Boston Red Sox owner, Tom Yawkey, who was known for his philanthropy, but also for what was a racist ball club.

National

Boston Red Sox Want To Strike Former Owner's Name Off Street Sign

7:32am April 26, 2018

by Tovia Smith

The team's owners want to rename Yawkey Way, outside Fenway Park, to distance themselves from former owner Tom Yawkey's era of racial discrimination. Others argue that he redeemed himself.

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How America's White Power Movement Coalesced After The Vietnam War

1:42pm April 25, 2018

by Terry Gross

Author Kathleen Belew says that as America's disparate racist groups came together in the 1970s and '80s, the movement's goal shifted from one of "vigilante activism" to something more wide-reaching.

Britain's Conservative Party politician Enoch Powell, right, listens to two demonstrators in Canada in April 1968, reading a petition that describes him as a "racist."

An Anti-Immigration Speech Divided Britain 50 Years Ago. It Still Echoes Today

5:11am April 20, 2018

by Joanna Kakissis

Half a century after Enoch Powell delivered the most incendiary political speech in Britain's recent history, his dire vision of race war hasn't come true. But it resonates in British politics today.

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Outgoing European human rights Commissioner Nils Muiznieks (L) shares a joke with the Dalai Lama at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France, in 2016.

World News

'It's A Very Different World Now,' Says Outgoing Human Rights Commissioner

7:00pm April 19, 2018

by Ari Shapiro

Nils Muiznieks has worked with the Council of Europe for the last six years. He shares his thoughts on the state of human rights, cultural racism, and the threat of war, genocide, and dictatorship.

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