Kennedy Mitchum expected little in return after emailing Merriam- Webster about its standing definition of the word racism. The 22-year-old was surprised to receive a response from the editor of the ...

House Minority Leader Sean Hornbuckle said allowing for training of future school security personnel in systemic racism would be beneficial for dealing with potential conflicts in schools. (Photo ...

On Jan. 20, President Joe Biden became the first in U.S. history to explicitly name “the sting of systemic racism” in his inaugural address. With this deliberate and specific use of the term, Biden ...

Earlier this week North Carolinians were reminded, in stark economic terms, that institutional racism is very much present today and has a direct impact on African Americans and other minorities ...

A recent college graduate from St. Louis called out the Merriam-Webster Dictionary for what she said is an incorrect definition of the word “racism.” Kennedy Mitchum has taken a different approach to ...

The American reference dictionary Merriam-Webster will change its definition of the word racism at the suggestion of a young black woman, who wanted it to better reflect the oppression of people of ...

Denizens of the nation’s colleges and universities take perverse pride in proclaiming that America – including higher education – embodies systemic racism. More insidious than mere racism – ...

The Systemic Racism Project, which aims to make research on systemic racism publicly-accessible, recently announced its collaboration with the John Nicholas Brown Center for Advanced Study. The ...

The recent killing of a black man, George Floyd, by a white police officer in Minneapolis has sparked a period of national protest and unrest. To many, Floyd’s death exemplifies the brutality of ...

But apparently, a Drake University student in Iowa wrote a letter to Merriam-Webster, suggesting that the definition should also include “systemic oppression” after the death of George Floyd.