This Week in Racism

Don’t Try to Put a Positive Spin on the N-Word Like This College Professor

It’s an embarrassment of riches in our weekly roundup of the world’s most preventable disease!

Update 6/7/22: Level has a new home. You can read this article and other new articles by visiting LEVELMAN.com.

Death and taxes used to be the only two certainties in life. But no matter how much progress it feels like we’re making sometimes, the sad fact is you can probably slide racism into that list. Are we in a moment of uprising that feels like it has the potential to create real, systemic change? Yes. Do people and organizations still show their ass on a daily basis? Oh, most definitely. And to keep tabs on all that ass-showing, we created a weekly racism surveillance machine. If you already get our newsletter, Minority Report, you’ve likely seen this — but now the rest of the internet can get a taste.

🗑 Africana studies professor proves acronyms can’t hide R.A.C.I.S.M.

Melissa Hargrove, PhD, has been lecturing at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville for a few years now, and while she hasn’t made full professor, she has made… 11 student groups sign a letter calling for her…