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.

Apologies for the nausea I’m about to bring into your life, though you probably saw this coming: child bullies are using Trump’s statements to ostracize their peers, particularly those who are not white.

A Dairy Queen in Zion, Illinois has been closed after its owner used a racial slur while quarreling with a customer.

Six people were arrested Tuesday night after staging an daylong sit-in at the office of Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump’s presumed pick for Attorney General and a man who was once deemed too racist to become a federal judge.

Last week Donald Trump New York campaign chair Carl Paladino gave astonishingly racist comments about the Obamas to Artvoice, an alt-weekly paper out of Buffalo, NY. As a result of those comments, which included his wish for Barack Obama to succumb to mad cow disease after “being caught having relations with a…

Several news outlets are reporting that Donald Trump has selected Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions to be his Attorney General. Sessions was denied a federal judgeship in the ‘80s after testimony during his confirmation hearings revealed that he’d allegedly made racist remarks to black colleagues. These days, he tweets…

We have never deserved Michelle Obama: it’s a truth made more certain with each passing day. And we’ve been reminded anew by two grotesquely racist officials in West Virginia who recently referred to her as an “ape in heels.”

Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio, a racist police officer who used his position of power for racial profiling, illegal arrests and creating unconstitutional and horrific jail conditions, was charged Tuesday with criminal contempt of court for charges allegedly related to ignoring a federal judge’s order in a racial…

An East Tennessee State University student has been criminally charged after he showed up at a Black Lives Matter protest in a gorilla mask and attempted to hand out bananas to the demonstrators. Tristan Rettke, an ETSU freshman, is being charged with one count of civil rights intimidation.

Among all the injustices committed by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the Arizona police officer/virulently racist troll/stupidly insistent Obama truther, bleeding the taxpayers in his own county is probably a lesser infraction compared to other actions like unconstitutional jail conditions, illegal arrests and racial profiling.…

Former Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who is supporting Donald Trump, who is good buddies with human rights nightmare Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and who signed an insanely draconian anti-immigrant bill into law, is sick of people suggesting that Republicans are racist. Oh?

Anthony Cumia, a sexist, racist, Islamophobic shock jock recently arrested for alleged strangulation and false imprisonment against his then-girlfriend, has entered rehab. Cumia didn’t specify what he’s seeking treatment for, but expressed hope, in a pre-recorded radio message, that it would help him avoid getting…

The Black Lives Matter movement has shed light on the racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality experienced by the African-American community across America. But apparently some of the employees at Facebook’s notoriously white, bro-centric Menlo Park, California office don’t agree.

Cheryl Burke, the Dancing with the Stars performer who’d also agreed to co-host this year’s Miss USA Pageant with MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts, released a statement this afternoon saying she can’t host anymore. The cause, as with so many of the world’s ills, is Donald Trump.

Four-time bankruptcy filer and seething hernia mass Donald Trump said that all Mexicans crossing the border into the United States are rapists and criminals, so Univision wisely chose to sever their ties with the Trump Organization. On Thursday, Jorge Ramos of Univision politely requested an interview with Trump, who…

A fourth-grade teacher at Bennett Elementary School in Frenship ISD, which serves Lubbock, TX, has written, deleted, and faced widespread public shame for a Facebook post in which she details her anger at Eric Casebolt’s resignation and her support for a return to a bygone era in which blacks were formally segregated…

Nothing to see here, just a normal sign from a cool residential management company with specific noise control instructions for black people. No big deal at all.

Last week, a high school graduation ceremony in Stone Mountain, GA ended prematurely after the valedictorian’s speech was accidentally skipped. As people began heading to their cars, Nancy Gordeuk, the school’s principal, approached the podium and attempted to keep them inside. “You people are bein’ so rude to not…