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 ...

Merriam-Webster, the venerable dictionary publisher, announced last week that it would update its definition of the word “racism” in response to a request by a 22-year-old woman from Missouri. But ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Notice how those terms don’t really work? They challenge our mental processing, in part because systems can’t be bigots and institutions can’t be prejudiced. And so I offer a modest proposal, but an ...