Students at Syracuse University have been protesting their school after a video showing Syracuse frat brothers using racist, anti-Semitic, sexist, and homophobic language was leaked online.
A gay couple was assaulted by four men just after Miami’s annual Pride parade, and it was all caught on camera. The suspects have surrendered, and local authorities are now investigating whether it should be considered a hate crime.
Trump supporters and alt-right protesters descended up on a left-wing bookstore in Berkeley, CA. this past week. They were caught on camera threatening to burn it to the ground. The bookstore has been a target of alt-right anger in the past, but this was the first time things escalated to such a disturbing extent.
Nearly six months after Hurricane Maria destroyed their homes, thousands of Puerto Ricans are still stranded in hotels, relying on dwindling FEMA aid to keep a roof over their heads.
Today was supposed to be Donald Trump’s deadline for the end of DACA—but a federal judge’s decision in January put a stop to that. Yet while the Trump administration tries to appeal the case, DACA recipients like 30-year-old Ilsy Bu are fighting for a concrete policy that will allow them to stay in the country.
27-year-old James Wright was shopping at Target in Minnesota when, he claims, to have been racially profiled while shopping for headphones. He then confronted the employee on camera about it and got a stunning response. Target told the Des Moines Register that it was investigating the incident. Watch what happened in…
Last summer, I inhaled a rare, flesh-eating bacteria that nearly killed me. Naturally, six months later I went back and interviewed my doctors (among others) and tried to figure out what might have happened had I been one of the 28 million Americans who are completely uninsured.
Veterans know firsthand what it feels like to be shot at by someone with a weapon of war. Sadly, so do the many students who have lived through a school shooting. In the wake of the Parkland school shooting, Splinter spoke to veterans who are standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Florida students to call for…
Donald Trump has gotten a lot of well-deserved flak this week after he defended alleged domestic abuser and former Staff Secretary Rob Porter–but is anyone really surprised? When it comes to domestic abuse and sexual assault allegations, Trump has a very long and very troubling history of blaming the victim and…
A small town in upstate New York has become a haven for immigrants seeking to escape Donald Trump’s America—and one woman is determined to help them.
On average, Donald Trump lobbed a “fake” insult more than once per day since he became president. Here are just a few!
America, as they say, is a melting pot. And nowhere is that more evident than in the kitchens of immigrants who have come to the United States and brought with them ancestral dishes to add to our national palate. But for families affected by the Trump administration’s travel ban, cooking traditional recipes—especially…
Most people associate the holiday season with twinkling lights. But months after Hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, tens of thousands of people on the Island are still living without electricity. In the town of Morovis, for example, 90% of the residents haven’t received any federal aid in the 90 days since the…
Black people arrested for a crime are twice as likely to spend time in jail before they go to trial than white people, in part because they often face higher bail fees than their white counterparts.
Meet Iman Siddiqi, the college senior who just started the first student-led scholarship for refugees in the United States.
For families with roots in countries singled out by President Trump’s travel ban, this holiday season is a particularly complicated time to explore what being American truly means. In the fifth video of our “Banned Recipes” series, an Iraqi American shows us how to make kleicha, a sweet and simple dessert that’s the…
For families with roots in countries singled out by President Trump’s travel ban, this holiday season is a particularly complicated time to explore what being American truly means. In the fourth video of our “Banned Recipes” series, a Iranian American chef shows us how to make Iranian morghe torsh, an aromatic chicken…
Donald Trump’s border wall is inspiring a new wave of protest art at the U.S.-Mexico border in the form of projected “light graffiti,” with artist-activists projecting Luchador masks, ladders, and pro-refugee messages on prototypes of the wall.
We’ve been sold a myth about the first Thanksgiving for generations. In reality, white settlers rewarded indigenous people’s kindness by enslaving Native populations and carrying out widespread genocide.
In this episode of Real America With Jorge Ramos, Jorge Ramos travels to Puerto Rico to assess the damage caused by Hurricane Maria. He explores what life is really like for millions of Puerto Ricans who are coping to live without daily necessities like power and water.
