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"It will just be incredibly important to us to make sure we're protesting now and voting later," said Carolyn DeWitt, executive director of Rock the Vote.
"I was super happy because I really felt like that was a step in a good direction for a lot of positive change for a lot of different positive conversations that can really help change the world and helps change how people view things," Kennedy Mitchum said.
"This is a tipping point. We need to make a stand. We've got to be better as a society regarding race," Jordan said.
In a letter posted on the Second City website, Andrew Alexander said he failed to create and "anti-racist environment."
"We are asking African Americans to deal with the pandemic of COVID and the epidemic of racism and inequality."
Racist taunts were hurled at a girls' basketball game recently – and several players were targeted, including one standing right at the free-throw line.
A social media post about an allegedly racially-charged incident at a Buffalo Wild Wings in Naperville has gone viral on Facebook.
A Bucky's convenience store employee in Naperville has been fired, after he was caught on camera telling customers from Mexico to "go back to their country."
Administrators at Oak Park and River Forest High School decided Monday at a special school board meeting to spend nearly $54,000 to reprint the school yearbook after photos of students making a hand gesture associated with racism surfaced.
The Cubs have identified the fan who apparently flashed a racist hand gesture on TV during Tuesday nights game against the Marlins, and the team has banned him from the park.
In a statement, the school said the posts were "highly offensive and culturally insensitive." But due to confidentiality laws can't discuss discipline and noted that the incident took place outside school property.
Alessandro Michele wrote that it was not inspired by blackface but by the late Leigh Bowery, a performance artist, club promoter and fashion designer who often used flamboyant face makeup and costumes.
"Am I supposed to be quiet because I can't write what I want, or I can only write what they want or makes them happy? No. That's not how it is,"
Some of the emails Splinter News published Monday featured Joe Ricketts making Islamophobic comments, such as "Islam is a cult and not a religion."
In Chicago, African-American drivers accounted for 61 percent of all traffic stops in 2017 while making up 31 percent of the city's population.
According to an email obtained by CBS 2, the professors admitted they were "blindsided" and explained that "a faculty member (Mike Bailey) agreed to host Kanazawa..." and he got two others "who were unaware of Kanazawa history, to co-sign and support an application..." for the visiting scholar.
In 2013 he authored a study on "Why Most Suicide Bombers Are Muslim." In 2011 he wrote an article in Psychology Today titled "Are All women Essentially Prostitutes?"
The commission was established following the September release of a university report suggesting adoption of a new sports mascot and traditions to replace the Chief Illiniwek portrayal that was dropped in 2007 after complaints from American Indians that it was offensive.
Just two days after a town hall meeting to discuss racist graffiti found at Oak Park and River Forest High School in recent days, someone "air-dropped" an image of a swastika to students' cell phones during a school assembly.
The principal of an Evanston elementary school raised concerns about "hate-filled language" spoken by students at the school, Lincolnwood Elementary.
"His actions do not reflect those of the United States Coast Guard."
The race between Gillum and DeSantis is widely seen as a toss-up.
The "Unite the Right 2" rally is being billed as a "white civil rights rally."
Spike Lee believes that racists in America have been given the "green light" from the White House.
Spike Lee heard the whispers. Just a few years ago, some were suggesting that Lee was no longer the essential filmmaker he had once been.
