This Week in Racism

What to Do if Your Child’s Homework Involves the Phrase ‘Let’s Make a Slave’

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

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4 min readMar 9, 2021

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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.

🗑 Okay, it’s officially time to rename February “(That’s Not How You Teach) Black History Month”

A couple of weeks ago we brought you the story of a college professor who thought writing Tupac’s backronym for the N-bomb and asking students to pretend to be…

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