This Week in Racism

The Most Terrifying Three-Word Phrase Might Just Be ‘Whites-Only Church’

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.

🗑 You had us at “a traditionally-minded son of Europe”

Murdock, Minnesota, is a small town. Like, fewer than 300 people small. But more than 50,000 people have signed a petition trying to stop the Asatru Folk Assembly from opening a church there. See, the organization, based in California, is…