What Not To Wear: Halloween 2017 Edition
If you’re still scrambling for a last-minute costume, don’t forget to think twice.
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This Week In Racism: Utah Cheerleaders And Racial Slurs
A video of white cheerleaders from a Utah high school apparently shouting a racial slur has gone viral.
A Teen Conservative Rejects The Far Right
White supremacist Richard Spencer is speaking at the University of Florida today. It’s an unsettling pattern.
Desegregated But Not Integrated: 60 Years After Little Rock Nine
Even though people of different races go to the same schools in 2017, we are not necessarily living in the same version of America.
I Counter-Protested A White Nationalist Rally. Here’s What I Learned
This was no peaceful, pink-hatted women’s march or rainbow colored anti-Trump dance party. It was scary on a level unlike any protest I had ever been to before.
6 Ways Even Liberals Reveal Their Underlying Racism
The recent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has some people shaken up that racism could exist in 2017. But the truth is that racism never left in the first place — even in liberal places.
When Staying Might be Aiding Your Own Oppression
First, I wanted to hug this girl and tell her, “Same!”The pressure to adapt is real. But I also wanted to give her a strong side-eye. Like, what are you doing??
Race/Related: My First Time Being Called The N-Word, I Was In Elementary School
It was the first time I had ever heard that word. I didn’t know how to react. I had many questions. Should I be upset? Could I call the white student the n-word too? Who invented this word? Do adults use the word?
Race/Related: My First Encounter With Racism
As part of our partnership with the New York Times Race/Related, Youth Radio correspondents from around the country described their lasting memories of a first encounter with racism.