Groups across the United States are taking action to counteract the use of the R-word. The first step is getting people to recognize that casual use of the word is damaging. Seven years ago, the website rword.org, launched the “Spread the Word to End the Word” campaign to build awareness in order to stop the use of the R-word, and they have seen lots of progress (click to learn more).
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April 7, 2015 - 6:10am
In the op-ed below, Marshalltown Times-Republican Managing Editor Jeff Hutton attends the career fair, but his conversations with students take a turn toward bullying.
April 6, 2015 - 3:09pm
Not In Our Town is proud to announce an exciting new campaign with our home town team, the Golden State Warriors! The Warriors are partnering with Not In Our Town, urging fans across the country to Take the Pledge to stop hate and bullying.
In a new PSA titled "Not On Our Ground, Not In Our Town," players including NBA All-Stars Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson publicly share their commitment to stand up to bullying. Draymond Green, Shaun Livingston and Coach Steve Kerr join the call. You can join them by sharing this video via Facebook or Twitter today!
March 30, 2015 - 1:15pm
Even as I go to Temple on the Jewish High Holidays each year, with a police officer or security guard outside protecting us while we pray, I had not been frightened that anti-Semitism would rise to those horrific proportions again. Only once in my life was I called a “dirty Jew.” Yet, recently, as we heard about Jews being targeted and murdered in both France and Denmark, a fear rose inside me. After all, it is only 70 years after Auschwitz, and I still have living relatives who have been in concentration camps.
March 23, 2015 - 10:00am
Outspoken comedian W. Kamau Bell, who just signed a deal for a new CNN series, stood outside a Berkeley, CA cafe showing some books he just purchased to his wife and her friends, who were sitting at tables. Kamau is black and his wife and her friends are white. An employee inside the cafe tapped on the window and gestured for Kamau to “move along” as there was “no selling.” He wrote about the experience of yet again being a black man standing, and the cafe owner, who was mortified, invited him to a discussion.