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Laiken Neumann is a Trending news editor based in Austin, Texas.

Laiken Neumann

Starbucks barista with apron on making drink (l) Starbucks barista finger on screen caption "me calculating why a grown white man told me he wanted his iced chai tea latte the same color as my skin" (r)

starbucks latte

‘Excuse me what’: Starbucks barista says customer asked for their drink to match the worker’s skin color￼

Cecilia Lenzen is a freelance writer for the Daily Dot.

Cecilia Lenzen

happy couple smiling white woman african american man (l) Walmart employee talking rubbing hands scared caption "This customer told me I was too pretty to be with a black man and was holding the" (r)

customer harassing walmart employee

‘I’m too pretty to finish this conversation’: Man tells Walmart worker she’s ‘too pretty to be with a Black man’ in viral TikTok

Braden Bjella is a culture writer. His work can be found in Mixmag, Electronic Beats, Schon! magazine, and more.

Braden Bjella

man dancing with caption "Me, doing Uber Eats, and following the instructions to 'leave the food at the back door'" (l) Uber Eats logo (c) man with hand on forehead with caption "Then getting handcuffed and arrested for 'trespassing'" (r)

uber eats driver arrested

Black Uber Eats driver says he was arrested for trespassing after following customer’s directions to ‘leave the food at the back door’

Moises Mendez II is a recent graduate from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. He is a freelance journalist based in New York City writing about everything from music to LGBTQ issues.

Moises Mendez II

gentrification durags

‘What in the gentrification is going on?’: TikTok of white boys in durags in yogurt shop goes viral

Gisselle Hernandez is a freelance journalist based in Belize, where she writes travel and internet culture pieces. She enjoys watching anime, playing video games, and covering all things TikTok.

Gisselle Hernandez

black woman looking at camera (l) (r) hooters restaurant (m)

hooters racism

‘Imagine having a racial preference for who brings you your food’: Black Hooters waitress says one of her tables asked for blonde server instead of her

you name 2

Delivery driver tells Black customer their ‘name is so white’ in viral video

Tricia Crimmins is a Senior Reporter on the politics and tech team covering discrimination, identity, and the 2024 election. She can be found on Twitter at @TriciaCrimmins.

Tricia Crimmins

stuffed animals (l) white sheep stuffed animal (m) monkey stuffed animals (r)

racist monkeys hung nooses

‘They didn’t want any Black neighbors’: TikToker says house next door to open house hung monkeys on nooses

Southern home (l) vintage trunk with caption "Deep South Georgia this trunk contains slave records I asked my grandfather for the key he refuses he believes that hordes of blacks will storm the compound and burn it to the ground or seek reoperations i will release when he passes" (r)

antebellum artifact

‘Pure fear’: TikToker says white grandfather believes antique trunk will release spirits of slaves demanding reparations

model in swimsuit (l) woman with caption "me when shein colors in peoples skin for diversity" (c) model in swimsuit with skin color darkened (r)

shein fake diversity

‘You can literally tell it’s a white person’: TikToker calls out Shein for allegedly making white model Black

White man with gray hair and braids in group of people caption "POV: Your cruise stopped at a Caribbean island" (l) White man with dark hair and hair braided with couple in front of him caption "POV: Your cruise stopped at a Caribbean island" (c) White man with dark hair and white woman next to him at bar with braids and people staring at them caption "POV: Your cruise stopped at a Caribbean island" (r)

caribbean cruise

‘The only positive is that the locals probably overcharged them’: TikToker puts all the white people in braids on blast after their cruise makes stop at a Caribbean island

woman lost in thought (l) cracker barrel store (m) screenshot of the words "canadian was a code word for black people"

tiktoker exposes code names

TikToker says servers used code name to talk about Black customers at Cracker Barrel

babystorme racially profile

‘Take them to court’: Popular TikToker says she was racially profiled while trying to deposit rent money at Citibank

Woman caption " Me matching with an Italian man on Tinder " (l) Tinder shutterstock image (c) TikTok greenscreen google translate search screenshot caption " Translating it to see what he says to me " (r)

italian tinder

‘This is not the first time a man has said this to me. To me, it’s racist’: TikToker says an Italian man told her he would ‘f*ck’ the Black out of her

Man in room caption " When you book an Airbnb for $20 in Dallas but you end up in a traphouse so you immediately leave and book a hotel " (l) airbnb shutterstock image (c) Man with glasses caption" When you book an Airbnb for $20 in Dallas but you end up in a traphouse so you immediately leave and book a hotel " (r)

traphouse airbnb

‘You ever been in a trap before?’: TikTokers refer to their Airbnb house as a ‘trap house,’ sparking outrage (updated)

group of female tourists looking at two African children caption " Please don't do this when you travel to Africa (l) group of female tourists squatting down to photograph the African children caption " Please don't do this when you travel to Africa" (c) group female tourists taking photos of two African children caption " Please don't do this when you travel to Africa" (r)

africa tourists

‘It ain’t a zoo’: Women filmed taking photos of children in Africa, sparking debate

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