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 ...

In the smoking wake of Ferguson’s fires, everybody wants a hearing. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), seeing a political opening, has already scheduled a September panel on the militarization of local ...

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 ...

Kennedy Mitchum is a modern-day agent of change. Thanks to the relatively unknown young black woman, racism has a new definition in the dictionary. The Florissant, Mo., native took matters into her ...

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 ...

Ottawa city council waded into a brief but testy debate over the definitions of racism and colonialism on Wednesday, amid questions over whether a funding policy should specifically mention that ...

FLORISSANT, Mo. (KTVI) – A 22-year-old Missouri woman is making international news after successfully petitioning Merriam-Webster to update its definition for the word “racism” in the dictionary. “I ...

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 ...