Racism Archives - Media Bias/Fact Check

Trolls take to Twitter to lie about being attacked by black people while going to see ‘Black Panther’

February 17, 2018

As Marvel’s latest superhero movie “Black Panther” draws praise and rakes in millions of dollars at the box office, Twitter trolls have emerged across the [...]

Richard Spencer supporters charged in shooting near University of Florida

October 20, 2017

Three Texas men who are reportedly supporters of white nationalist Richard Spencer were arrested Thursday in connection with a shooting near the University of Florida [...]

‘Bigotry seems emboldened:’ George W Bush slams current political climate

October 19, 2017

Former president George W. Bush issued a sharp if veiled denunciation of Trumpism on Thursday, warning that bigotry, white supremacy and falsehoods are coarsening the [...]

Florida college town tense ahead of white supremacist speech

October 19, 2017

A Florida college town was on lockdown Thursday ahead of a speech by Richard Spencer, an organizer of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia that erupted in [...]

Trump Signs Resolution Condemning White Supremacists

September 16, 2017

US president Donald Trump was roundly criticized last month for his failure to condemn the white supremacist rally and the killing of a woman in Charlottesville, Virginia in [...]

Islamophobia Misrepresented As A Form Of Religious Bias: Report

September 15, 2017

If you thought Islamophobia was simply about intolerance of Muslims due to religious bias, you probably need to go beyond its literal meaning to better understand the cause [...]

White Nationalist Demonstrator Surrenders to Police in Lynchburg, Virginia

August 24, 2017

White nationalist Christopher Cantwell turned himself into police Wednesday to face felony charges stemming from a deadly rally organized by white supremacists in [...]

When Hate Meets Hoax

August 23, 2017

For several months this spring, St. Olaf College, a private school of some 3,000 students in Northfield, Minnesota, was convulsed by a series of hate incidents. More than [...]

University of Texas removes Confederate statues

August 21, 2017

AUSTIN, Texas — University of Texas President Gregory L. Fenves abruptly announced late Sunday that four statues of people with Confederate ties would be removed [...]

Over the years, Americans have become increasingly exposed to extremism

August 21, 2017

A man sporting a Nazi tattoo leaves Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Virginia on Aug. 12, 2017. Steve Helber/AP Photo James E. Hawdon, Virginia Tech Extremism has always [...]

US enemies scold Trump for what they see as American racism

August 17, 2017

WASHINGTON — America’s adversaries are just loving this. Leaders of governments dismissed by Washington as totalitarian dictatorships are relishing in the opportunity [...]

Baltimore removes Confederate monuments overnight

August 16, 2017

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GoDaddy bans neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer

August 14, 2017

Internet hosting provider GoDaddy will terminate its service to The Daily Stormer after the prominent neo-Nazi website ran an article that attacked the victim of [...]

Michael Signer, Charlottesville mayor, blames President Trump: ‘Look at the campaign he ran’

August 13, 2017

A day after violence broke out between counter-protesters and white nationalists in his city, Charlottesville Mayor Michael Signer on Sunday said President Trump deserves at [...]

One fatality in car ramming at white supremacist rally in Virginia

August 12, 2017

Washington (dpa) – One person has died after a car rammed into people marching against a rally staged by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, the mayor of [...]

Chanting ‘blood and soil!’ white nationalists with torches march on University of Virginia

August 12, 2017

Chanting “blood and soil,” “white lives matter” and “you will not replace us,” scores of white nationalists holding torches marched across [...]

(Left-Center) Alt-right rally: Charlottesville braces for violence

August 11, 2017

Beating. Hanging. Shooting. These are the sorts of threats that Charlottesville Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy, a 30-year-old African American, says he has received in recent weeks [...]

A Few Things Got Left Out of The Daily Caller’s Report on Confederate Monument Rally

June 1, 2017

(CC 2.0) by A.C. Thompson ProPublica, May 31, 2017, 8 a.m. On May 14, The Daily Caller, a popular conservative website, published a news story about recent protests in [...]

A 2-for-1 for Racists: Post Hateful Fliers, and Revel in the News Coverage

March 24, 2017

by Ken Schwencke ProPublica, March 24, 2017, 8 a.m. The Houston man laid out the details of his triumphant plan during a podcast last July: He told listeners that he had [...]

Daily Source Bias Check: Frontpage Magazine

March 7, 2017

QUESTIONABLE SOURCE A questionable source exhibits any of the following: extreme bias, overt propaganda, poor or no sourcing to credible information and/or is fake news. Fake [...]