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Black Woman Wins $15M Lawsuit After Her White Boss Called Her the N-Word

Nationwide — La-Kebbia “Kiki” Wilson, an African American woman from Fresno, California, who endured years of racial harassment at work, won $15 million in a federal lawsuit against the city. The jury found the city liable for racial discrimination and retaliation. A white co-worker, Charles Smith, also received damages. According to Atlanta Black Star, Wilson’s struggles began in 2004 when she joined Fresno’s code enforcement division. She said her supervisor, Howard Lacy, displayed open hostility toward Black employees, making racist […]

todayMarch 26, 2026 2

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Trump makes off-the-cuff remark about ‘n-word’ as he rails against ‘woke’ military policies

While delivering remarks to military leaders on Tuesday, President Donald Trump made an off-the-cuff remark about the n-word as he and Secretary Pete Hegseth urged the nation’s top generals and admirals that the newly renamed Department of War is putting an end to “woke” policies. During his more than an hour-long speech before hundreds of top military officers, Trump touted that he “rebuilt” the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal. “We have to hope we never have to use it, because the […]

todaySeptember 30, 2025 1

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Baltimore mayor shares racist voicemail from man who called him n-word amid Trump’s crime takeover

As Black mayors push back against right-wing claims about crime in their cities following President Donald Trump‘s federal takeover of Washington, D.C., neighboring Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott has become a target. Mayor Scott shared a racist voicemail he received from an anonymous man to underscore longstanding bigoted attitudes about majority Black communities. “I really think it’s timely for folks to hear the kind of hatred and vitriol…that still exists in the world today,” Mayor Scott said in a video posted […]

todayAugust 19, 2025 1

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Fox News host compares reclaiming ‘Nazi’ to Black people reclaiming the ‘N-word’

Fox News host Greg Gutfeld doesn’t care about being called a Nazi. In fact, he plans on incorporating it into his daily vocabulary. During a segment on “The Five,” Gutfeld dismissed criticism likening Trump-era politics and GOP rhetoric to Nazi behavior. Rather than engage with the substance of those comparisons, he leaned into them. “This is why the criticism doesn’t matter to us when you call us Nazis,” he said. “Nazi this, Nazi that. I’m beginning to think they don’t […]

todayJuly 17, 2025

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Trump’s nephew claims the former president used the N-word, as racism muddies election against Harris

In a new book, the nephew of Donald Trump claims he heard the former president and current Republican presidential nominee use the N-word decades before he entered the political scene.  In his tell-all book, “All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got to Be This Way,” Fred Trump recalls his uncle using the racist slur in the 1970s. According to the New York Times, Fred said Donald Trump’s car had been damaged, and he was “searching for someone […]

todayJuly 25, 2024 1

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Former ‘Apprentice’ star Kwame Jackson ‘broke’ from Trump long before N-word claim

Years before last week’s revelation that Donald Trump allegedly referred to him by using the N-word, Kwame Jackson said he knew his former boss on “The Apprentice” exhibited racism.  “There has been a history and a track record and a certain repetition of racism over Trump’s career,” Jackson said during a recent interview with theGrio. Jackson, a Season One finalist of the NBC show, said that while he did not experience “direct” racism from Trump on the set of “The […]

todayJune 7, 2024

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‘Textbook racist’: Report about Trump using n-word shouldn’t be a surprise, critics say

Critics are holding Donald Trump to the fire after a former producer of “The Apprentice” revealed on Thursday that the Republican presidential candidate used the n-word during his time on the NBC show.According to a Slate article written by Bill Pruit, who worked with Trump on the competition reality show, Trump used the racist slur when referring to Black contestant Kwame Jackson, who was a season 1 finalist alongside Bill Rancic, who is white.  Pruitt recalled Trump saying, “…would America […]

todayMay 31, 2024

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Donald Trump is the greatest N-word of all time

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. A racist called me the n-word today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure. As someone who’s publicly taught, discussed and written about race for more than two decades, I’ve been called more racial slurs than you can imagine. While “moon cricket” is my favorite, if we searched every inbox in Black America, I’d probably rank in the top […]

todayApril 5, 2024