Racial Profiling
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Black doctor makes poignant video about how he’s treated when he’s not wearing scrubs: 'This speaks volumes'
Though lauded for his heroism when working as an A&E doctor, U.K.-based Dr. Emeka Okorocha, a Black man, says that when he’s on the street in plain clothes, he’s often racially profiled.
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Old Navy employee fired after racially profiling shopper at Toronto-area mall
An Old Navy employee was fired from a Toronto-area store after an aggressive racial profiling incident was filmed and shared on social media.
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Charges dropped against black men in 'hoodie arrests' at mall: 'Young African-American men are still vulnerable'
Two men who made headlines in November after they were arrested in a case of alleged racial profiling have had all charges against them dropped.
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A teen went to a Florida fair wearing a necklace honoring his deceased mother. When the police saw it, they kicked him out.
An African-American teen was told by police to leave the Jacksonville Fair in Florida on Nov. 3 after he refused to tuck his memorial necklace — an homage to his late mother — under his T-shirt to conceal it.
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Black teen arrested for violating mall's 'no hoodie' dress code; man who defended him also detained
A man is accusing police of racial profiling after an incident caught on video shows a black teen being arrested for violating a mall's "no hoodie" dress code.
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Doctor says she was racially profiled while trying to help fellow passenger on Delta flight
Physician Fatima Cody Stanford was helping a sick passenger aboard a Delta flight when she says she was racially profiled by flight attendants who didn't believe she was a doctor.
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A Smith College employee called the police on a 'suspicious' student eating lunch: 'All I did was be black'
Not only did an anonymous caller assume college Oumou Kanoute was possibly dangerous because of her race, they also assumed she was a male because of her short hair.