Racism

Leadership requires more than holding office — it requires honesty, integrity, and the willingness to take responsibility when words or actions cause harm.

Racism has been rebranded nationally and locally in a last desperate effort to return to an unhappy past. Guest column.

Racism, bigotry and sexism, all thrive in silence. Truth demands a voice, an active voice that expects nothing less than results such as justice, equality, and respect.

The racist video depicting the Obamas as apes was vile. But silence in the face of dehumanization carries its own moral weight.

We do not fight hate by mirroring it. We fight hate by standing firm in who we are, by creating space for others to exist in safety and dignity. Column by Tjuana Fulford.

“We’re not going anywhere.” That’s the message from The Butterfly Effect Project in response to a slew of racist comments made on the organization’s recent Facebook post announcing an upcoming event honoring founder Tijuana Fulford and five junior volunteer leaders — all Black women.

ERASE Racism is holding anti-racist trainings in Riverhead in the hopes of teaching community members about racism and how to have conversations surrounding race and diversity.

The four children — between the ages of five and seven — were called the N-word by a high school student and a middle school student while at the Blue Waves football game Saturday. “I grew up in Aquebogue with this stuff. It was the N-word every day in school — and I’m tired of it,” Robert Brown, 83, told the school board.

Corporate policy allowed store managers to decide whether to place products in locked cases. Walmart said about a dozen of its 4,700 U.S. stores had such a policy in place. The Riverhead Walmart was one of them until local resident Patricia Fulford took on the retail giant in January 2019.

To the Editor: Another unarmed black man has died at the hands of police, and...