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 ...

The Anti-Defamation League has once again changed its definition of racism over a backlash for how it had defined the concept, amid the controversy over Whoopi Goldberg’s comments about the Holocaust.

Several years ago, the ADL changed its definition of racism to the following: “The marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges ...

The term racism has been employed in psychological research and other social sciences, as well as by a variety of news media. However, although this term is often applied to explain a variety of ...

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 ...

I grew up in Iowa, but my mother is from Guam, so she is CHamoru (yes, it's spelled correctly). My father is from Jamaica, and he is African/Chinese. I think the politically correct term for what I am ...

Of all the grievances erupting against Facebook executives Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, perhaps the most telling is the complaint that, back in 2015, they failed to suppress presidential ...