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Bill to remove Confederate statues from Capitol stalled by Missouri's Blunt

Bill to remove Confederate statues from Capitol stalled by Missouri's Blunt

The legislation proposed by Sen. Cory Booker would have removed 11 statues honoring men who voluntarily served in the Confederacy from the National Statuary Hall Collection.

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people are finally waking up and going about legitimate change




Acknowledging derogatory term, Eskimo Pie owner says to change ice cream's name

Acknowledging derogatory term, Eskimo Pie owner says to change ice cream's name

The U.S. owner of Eskimo Pie ice cream will change the product's brand name and marketing, it told Reuters on Friday, becoming the latest company to rethink racially charged brand imagery amid a broad debate on racial injustice. Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, the owner of Eskimo Pie, said it had been

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Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, the owner of Eskimo Pie, said it had been reviewing the business for some time.

"We are committed to being a part of the solution on racial equality, and recognize the term is derogatory," Elizabell Marquez, head of marketing at Dreyer’s Grand, said in a statement.





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People participate in a Juneteenth observation in Minneapolis
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same ole song




Racial violence and a pandemic: How the Red Summer of 1919 relates to 2020

Racial violence and a pandemic: How the Red Summer of 1919 relates to 2020

The wave of violence a century ago against Black Americans echoes how today, "people feel they have little to lose, and so much at stake," one historian said.

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That was 1919, during what would later be coined the "Red Summer," when communities across America were reeling from white mobs inciting brutality against Black people and cities were still wrestling with a third wave of the so-called Spanish flu pandemic that emerged the previous year.

Mob running with bricks during Chicago Race Riots of 1919 (Chicago History Museum / The Jun Fujita negatives collection)

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She was tired of her peers lecturing her about racism, so she reached out to Merriam-Webster to update its definition

She was tired of her peers lecturing her about racism, so she reached out to Merriam-Webster to update its definition

Drake University graduate Kennedy Mitchum was fed up with having to correct her peers on the definition of racism, so she went straight to the dictionary's editors instead.

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The editor then explained that the editorial staff is drafting a new definition, noting that it would probably take a few months. He also thanked Mitchum for her determination in getting the definition revised.

“This revision would not have been made without your persistence in contacting us about this problem,” Chambers wrote. “We sincerely thank you for repeatedly writing in and apologize for the harm and offense we have caused in failing to address this issue sooner. I will see to it that the entry for racism is given the attention it sorely needs.”

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New York’s Museum of Natural History to remove Teddy Roosevelt statue

Statue symbolizes colonialism, museum says; Roosevelt’s great-grandson agrees

New York’s Museum of Natural History to remove Teddy Roosevelt statue

The American Museum of Natural History will remove a prominent statue of Theodore Roosevelt from its entrance after years of objections that it symbolizes...

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Visitors to the American Museum of Natural History in New York in 2017 look at a statue of Theodore Roosevelt.
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