racism

You would think that in the land of cosplay, where millions across the globe dress up as their favorite fictional characters from across the spectrum of television, film and comics, there would be wide acceptance and little judgment. It is, after all, just make-believe. But if you think that you would be dead wrong.

The refrain from American blues singer and guitarist Big Bill Broonzy can be heard in his 1951 song “Black, Brown and White” and shed light on the widespread discrimination against Black Americans in general and darker-skinned Black people in particular. The jingle may be unfamiliar to some. But its meaning is painfully clear.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday called racism a “serious threat” to public health, becoming the latest, and largest, U.S.-based health agency to single out racism as having a “profound and negative impact on communities of color” and contributing to disproportionate mortality rates among people of color, NBC News reports. “Confronting the impact of racism will...

The pledge comes amid national attention on anti-Asian violence in the U.S. and fundraising efforts following the fatal Atlanta shootings.

A Long Island pizza delivery driver was fired after sending a text message to a Black customer that contained a racial slur.

A pizza delivery driver on Long Island has been fired after he sent a text message to a customer, calling her a racial slur and saying that Black lives don’t matter. Lashae Jerry says she and her kids were in Wantaugh Park on Saturday when they ordered food for delivery from I Love Pizza, a restaurant located on Merrick...

A man posted on social media this week that a New York City housing inspector checked on his heat and hot water, and later got a letter from the agency that was addressed to “Chin Chong.”

The housing inspector has been placed on suspension for using the offensive trope, which comes at a time when attacks and racist incidents against Asians has been rising. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

In the aftermath of a mass shooting that killed six Asian women in the Atlanta area, the Black and Asian communities are putting aside historical tensions to come together in common cause to fight white supremacy and violence. NBCLX storyteller Ngozi Ekeledo attended a New York City rally to talk to protesters from both communities about why solidarity is so...

The mother of a Black sixth-grader filed a legal claim against the Palmdale School District Thursday over an alleged racist rant directed at her son and his family by a teacher who failed to sign off Zoom following a student-teacher session.

The year was 2019 and Binta Diallo was looking for a partner. To be more specific, Diallo, 30, was looking for a potential husband. In that pursuit, the young Muslim woman from West Africa did what many Millennials do. She went online.

Colorism, a prejudice or discrimination against individuals with a dark skin tone, plays a role in most communities of color. But Binta Diallo says the issue is particularly pervasive in Muslim relationships. So she created a blind matchmaking service to fight it.

A shocking and offensive new video shows a woman go on a racist rant toward a Black cashier at a Manhattan bakery after she refused to put on a mask while placing an order.

A woman who was seen on camera calling a Black bagel shop employee a racial slur defended herself on social media by saying she’s Black.

The family of a Black teenager who was falsely accused of stealing a woman’s cellphone in a New York City hotel last December filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging that the woman and the hotel engaged in racial profiling.

The officer was initially suspended without pay after a body camera recorded him calling Black people “the worst race,” adding an expletive for emphasis, and saying that “they are getting worse and worse”

A California woman – and Arlo Hotels – are both being sued for racial profiling after a caught-on-camera incident at the hotel in SoHo late last year. Adam Kuperstein reports.

Some highly active vaccine clinics are far away from communities of color. Doses aren’t being distributed at a level that reflects the greater COVID-19 dangers for people in those communities. Epidemiologist Camara Phyllis-Jones breaks down the issue and says “we can dismantle this system.”

A shocking and offensive new video shows a woman go on a racist rant toward a Black cashier at a Manhattan bakery after she refused to put on a mask while placing an order. Myles Miller reports.

To many, it seems like a simple question: “Where are you from?” But when that query is posed to someone who is Asian American, it shows an unconscious bias. Writer Kurt Bardella joined LX News to explain why it’s time to stop this form of “passive racism.”