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Diversity, equity and inclusion policies and practices are in the crosshairs of ideologically disparate public interest law groups, showing the campaign against institutionalized race essentialism and "neoracism" has legs beyond the political right. The Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, cofounded by black intellectuals including "Woke Racism" author and Columbia University linguist John McWhorter, is representing Tabia Lee, tenure-track faculty director of the Office of Equity, Social Justice, and Multicultural Education at Silicon Valley's De Anza College. The college declined to renew Lee's contract due to her advocacy of "multiple approaches in performing anti-racism work" and refusing to coddle a Black...

Amajority of Black Americans have said they want police presence in their area to either remain the same or increase, despite recent protests over police brutality, according to new polls. A Gallup poll conducted from June 23 to July 6 surveying more than 36,000 U.S. adults found that 61 percent of Black Americans said they'd like police to spend the same amount of time in their community, while 20 percent answered they'd like to see more police, totaling 81 percent. Just 19 percent of those polled said they wanted police to spend less time in their area. Black Americans' responses...

Chelsea Handler explained why she took ex-boyfriend 50 Cent to task over his Trump endorsement during an interview Friday. 50 Cent has backed Trump Monday after seeing supposed Biden tax numbers. Handler then tweeted at him that 'black lives matter. That's you! Remember?' Handler said Friday that if 50 Cent changed his position on Trump, she might be willing to 'go for another spin' with him. 'So he doesn't want to pay 62 percent in taxes because he doesn't want to go from "50 Cent" to "20 Cent" and I had to remind him that he was a black person,...

Washington (CNN)Ahead of the March for our Lives rally, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg said the media's biggest mistake while covering the school's shooting was "not giving black students a voice." "My school is about 25 percent black, but the way we're covered doesn't reflect that." Hogg said during an Axios event Friday. Hogg, one of the core members of the #NeverAgain Movement, hasn't shied away from acknowledging his privilege. In fact, "privilege" came up in many of the speeches at Saturday's march in Washington, D.C. While taking the stage again -- this time before hundreds of...

“Mansplaining” was so 2016. Half way through 2017, the Huffington Post is peddling a new complaint to add to the American lexicon: “Whitesplaining.” HuffPo’s “social justice blogger,” Jade Greear, explains this new offense. “Have you ever had an experience where someone is explaining to you, in a patronizing way, something you actually already know quite a lot about?” she asks. “Possibly about your own life experiences as an African American or Latino? That is whitesplaining—to explain or comment on something in a condescending, overconfident, and often inaccurate or oversimplified manner, from the perspective of the group one identifies with, thereby...