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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Congratulations to Kevin Jon Williams for refusing to cite his African ancestry to gain preference for a National Institutes of Health research-grant application (“Why I’m Saying No to NIH’s Racial ...

There are disagreements among social scientists about what it means to be racially “colorblind” and whether it’s a good or bad thing (Selterman, 2023; Whitley et al., 2023; Wingfield, 2015). Some ...