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racist

[rey-sist] / ˈreɪ sɪst /




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Concanon was ultimately found not to have sent any racist texts.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

On a recent episode of What Next, host Mary Harris spoke to Kendi about his latest book and what he would say to people living under racist authoritarianism.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2026

HBO’s Casey Bloys says ‘Harry Potter’ has a ‘serious security team’ because it anticipated the racist backlash for casting Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026

He also said he had asked the publisher to contact Baroness Doreen Lawrence - one of the claimants, whose 18-year-old son Stephen was killed in a racist attack in London in 1993.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

He’d been a young man in the 1940s when he first joined the African National Congress and began boldly challenging the all-white South African government and its entrenched racist policies.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama




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