Four months after Brandeis University fired its men’s basketball coach due to allegations of verbal abuse and racial discrimination, the university has accepted the resignation of one top official and demoted two others who were supposed to supervise him, Deadspin reported. Vice president of student affairs Sheryl Sousa resigned, and athletic director Lynn Dempsey and…
Hasidic rapper Nissim Black is concerned his children haven’t been accepted to yeshivas because of their skin color, he told Radio Kol Chai. “People know me as a rapper, but I’m on the road all the time for Klal Yisrael,” Black said in the interview, quoted by Yeshiva World News. “I heard from many people…
If someone asked you to name the most urgent crisis facing the Jewish community, “anti-blackness” or “intra-community racism” might not be among your first thoughts. But it should be. That’s because anti-blackness in the Jewish community is pushing black Jews out. Countless black Jews have made the difficult decision to leave Judaism completely, no longer…
Each year around Martin Luther King Day, my Jewish high school on the Upper West Side would gather for an assembly marking our community’s namesake. The school was named for Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, a Jewish leader remembered for his commitment to advancing civil rights. In the annual gathering, we would look at old photos…
As if Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg making a movie about children wasn’t risky enough, the buddy-collaborators are now in hot water for using black face on an actor on set. Rogen has apologized after footage of his upcoming film “Good Boys” showed a stand-in for a black child actor wearing skin-darkening makeup and an…
Can you be racist against white people? A recent New York Times hire has ignited a polarizing debate around this topic. Last week, The Times announced it had hired Sarah Jeong, a tech writer for the Verge, to join its Editorial Board. The internet very quickly unearthed tweets Jeong had written in 2014 that seemed…
Roseanne Barr released a video on her personal YouTube page on Thursday night that shows her confused, semi-incoherent, and screaming charged racial comments. None of this is new. Still, there’s something chilling about the video — Barr is disoriented, but the people behind the camera seem to know exactly what they’re doing. The profanity-laced video…
CNN Tonight with Don Lemon took an emotional turn Thursday evening, under the topic of “bigots on the ballot.” During a discussion about racism in the Republican party, panelist and Democratic strategist Angela Rye thanked David Jolly, former Republican Congressman from Florida, after he said he believes President Trump has racist tendencies and acknowledged white…
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