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A Nevada case shined a light on a U.S. immigration law and its little-known history after a federal judge called the rule racist and struck it down.

During the episode, the pair even acknowledge that their “joke” may be inappropriate but do it anyway.

Wednesday’s unexpected arrival of dozens of undocumented immigrants, sent to Martha’s Vineyard from Florida under the order of Gov. Ron DeSantis, brought back vivid memories of a similar situation that unfolded on Cape Cod more than 60 years ago. In June of 1962, white supremacists in the South arranged for hundreds of Black families from Arkansas to board one-way buses…

A Black pastor who was arrested by white police officers while watering the flowers of a neighbor has filed a federal lawsuit over the ordeal.

A Connecticut mother is joining a $25 million lawsuit, claiming that her young Black child was discriminated against at New York’s Legoland theme park — a similar claim that a Brooklyn mother made about a costumed character at a Sesame Place park, sparking the lawsuit.

A Black woman has filed a civil rights suit on behalf of her daughter against Los Angeles Unified and the Board of Education, alleging the girl suffered emotional distress after a cotton picking field was set up at her Hollywood school in 2017 as an instructional tool about what life was like for slaves.

Residents were outraged when the text messages surfaced in social media posts.

Mental health expert Sheila Robinson-Kiss takes her daughter to Sesame Place every summer. When the 10-year-old became aware of social media posts alleging bias against Black children at the theme park, she was heartbroken. In a conversation with LX News host Ashley Holt, Robinson-Kiss shares how she discussed the issue with her daughter and offers advice to other parents.

Kelly Rowland, Wendell Pierce, Yvette Nicole Brown and more reacted to a viral video of a Sesame Place character seemingly ignoring two Black girls during their parade.

Soprano Angel Blue says she won’t perform in an opera in Italy this month because blackface was used in the staging of another work this summer.

Lewis Hamilton said “archaic mindsets” have to change after retired Formula One champion Nelson Piquet reportedly used a racial slur against him.

A Connecticut woman who says she’s descended from enslaved people portrayed in widely-published, historical photos owned by Harvard can sue the Ivy League university for emotional distress, Massachusetts’ highest court ruled Thursday. The state’s Supreme Judicial Court partly vacated a lower court ruling that dismissed a complaint from Tamara Lanier over photos she says depict her enslaved ancestors. The...

Andrew Young is walking American history. He visited Connecticut and spoke with NBC Connecticut’s Leslie Mayes about his fight for good and what more has to be done to combat racism.

The racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory was once on the fringe, but is becoming more mainstream in American politics and on Fox News, explains Oren Segal of the ADL Center on Extremism. “It completely neglects the fact that this is a country made up of immigrants,” Segal said.

The “great replacement” theory, also known as “white replacement” theory, is the false idea that white Americans are being systematically replaced by nonwhite people for control of the country, and it’s existed on the fringes of racist ideology for centuries. In the wake of a deadly Buffalo shooting motivated by white resentment, Dr. Jonathan Metzl explains how it moved into...

The Nash family says they’re upset with how the Kaufman County Constable’s Office handled what they call a ‘racially-motivated’ incident caught on camera.

Americans are deeply divided over how much children in K-12 schools should be taught about racism and sexuality.

The white woman was hit with a felony hate crime charge for allegedly wrongly accusing the then-14-year-old son of a noted jazz musician of taking her phone and lunging at him.

This article was updated on March 25, 2022, at 3:56 p.m. ET. As the Russia-Ukrainian conflict surpasses the one-month mark, over 3.5 million Ukrainians have fled the violence. Most of them have traveled to fellow European countries, but on Wednesday, President Biden announced the U.S. would admit as many as 100,000 Ukrainians. Biden also plans to meet with Ukrainian refugees…

Between 1888 and 1934, there were 134 Black-owned banks. Today, there are only 20 Black-owned banks that qualify as Minority Depository Institutions.