The Orpheum Theater in Memphis, Tennessee, has stopped showing Victor Fleming's Gone with the Wind, starring Vivien Leigh, due to political correctness concerns. The reason for this was the offensive way in which black people were portrayed in the film. “As an organization whose mission is...
Traditional symbols of hatred - swastikas, bolts, distorted crosses - have not disappeared in modern society, like any other symbols, they change and evolve, maintaining their former meaning. A list of new symbols of hatred was compiled by CNN. New swastika Mark Pitcavage - Sr...
In Charlottesville, Virginia, during the Unite the Right nationalist rally, clashes broke out with local residents and activists from the Black Lives Matter movement, who organized a counter-rally, The Washington Post reports. Protesters from the opposite camp lined the sidewalks and shouted insults...
A racist post on Facebook about Michelle Obama sparked a scandal involving the mayor of a city in West Virginia. Pamela Ramsey Taylor, who runs a local nonprofit group in Clay County, wrote on her page: “It would be great to see... in the White House...
Famous football player Colin Kaepernick defiantly did not stand during the playing of the US national anthem in protest against racism in the country. Fans of the San Francisco 49ers, for whom the quarterback plays, are actively burning T-shirts with his name on the back. According to the Voice of America,...
Russian tennis player Daniil Medvedev was disqualified for racism at the American Challenger Series in Savannah, Georgia. The second round match between Medvedev and American Donald Young was stopped with the score 4: 1 in favor of the American. In the fifth game, the 20-year-old Russian ...
The American portal Abodo published data from a study based on approximately 12 million tweets posted by users on the social network Twitter from June 2014 to December 2015. The purpose of this work was to study the mood of US residents, which they use in their tweets, including the indication of races, ...
Republicans and Democrats have weighed in on the Missouri racism scandal. "I think it's just disgusting and the two people who resigned are weak and ineffective," Donald Trump told Fox News on Thursday morning. He also named...
University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe stepped down from his post under pressure from students and faculty, outraged by manifestations of racism in the university. The situation in Missouri attracted national attention after the university student committee joined in the calls of a number of staff and the football team ...
Roskomnadzor added several pages of the Apple iTunes Store online store to the register of prohibited sites because of the songs of the groups “Corrosion of Metal” and “Tsiklon-B” posted there, which are recognized as extremist in Russia. “Court decisions have been received on the basis of which indexes of service pages have been entered into the Unified Register...