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Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty ImagesAn NCAA Division I women’s basketball coach finally resigned this week after years of abuse allegations, including racism and homophobia. But former players are outraged by her “amicable” departure and hefty six-figure severance payout, telling The Daily Beast that her alleged misconduct goes way beyond the recent allegations that led to her exit.Northern Kentucky University announced on Friday that it had cut Camryn Volz’s contract short following an investigation into alleged abusive behavior. An anonymous report filed to school officials on March 5 alleged that Volz frequently engaged in “racial remarks,” “homophobia,” and “constant degradation of mental health,” according to a redacted human-resources document reviewed by The Daily Beast. A week later, another anonymous report further claimed the coach had “created an environment where fear and manipulation [were] used to” make members of the team “compliant.”Through a lawyer, Volz denied all of the allegations made against her.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastReligious leaders in Boston have rallied together to demand reparations for Black Americans, including a call for $15 billion from city authorities and white churches to help bridge the equity gap and tell a story of enslaved people in the northeast “that is rarely talked about.”In February 2023, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu appointed members who would be part of the city’s Reparations Task Force. However, last month the task force said it would not complete its work by the end of the year as originally planned and that an action plan is now expected “sometime in 2025.”Boston is one of a number of U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, and St. Louis, that is working to identify local ties to slavery and whether reparations are appropriate.Read more at The Daily Beast.

BRANDON BELLOklahoma’s Supreme Court has heard oral arguments from survivors and descendants of the Tulsa Race Massacre as they push for reparations in a last-ditch legal effort.The last surviving victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921—who are well over 100 years old—have fought hard to have their say in court, demanding reparations after Black residents claim the city subjected them to a brutal racial attack and decades of neglect.Lessie Benningfield Randle and Viola Fletcher, both 109, appeared in the Oklahoma Supreme Court Tuesday in an attempt to appeal for reparations after enduring a violent carnage of Black residents in Greenwood, Oklahoma—also known as Black Wall Street.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Bast/Getty Images/Courtesy of Keianna MillerThe family of a Black 4-year-old boy who was shot dead by police responding to a bloody domestic violence incident are considering taking legal action. Lawyers representing Keianna Miller, whose son Terrell was killed by Macomb Police two weeks ago, told The Daily Beast she may file a civil lawsuit.“Police would lead a criminal investigation. The civil would be by a personal injury law firm like ours for a lawsuit that would be filed in civil court,” a spokesperson for personal injury law firm Romanucci & Blandin LLC said.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Michael Wade/Getty ImagesAlabama took a major step backwards Wednesday when a law was passed to prohibit state-funded diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at public schools and universities.Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed S.B. 129 into law while still claiming to “value Alabama’s rich diversity,” according to AL.com.“I refuse to allow a few bad actors on college campuses—or wherever else for that matter—to go under the acronym of DEI, using taxpayer funds, to push their liberal political movement counter to what the majority of Alabamians believe,” Ivey said in a statement, the outlet reported. “Supporting academic freedom, embracing diversity of cultures and backgrounds and treating people fairly are all key components of what we believe in Alabama, and I am more than confident that will continue.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

SOPA ImagesHome shopping network QVC has issued an apology after spamming customers with a racially-insensitive marketing campaign on International Women’s Day.On March 8, the shopping channel attempted to pique the interest of female shoppers with a new purse.“You’ll love this bag longtime,” read the email subject line from QVC, seemingly referencing a phrase that has been used to stereotype Asian women.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Aaron Douglas/Anna-Marie Kellen/Courtesy The MetThe New Negro Movement was a celebration of culture across the African diaspora in the early decades of the 20th century. In the U.S., the period was marked by Black families relocating to mostly Northern and Western cities following World War I. After serving overseas, Black men realized they received a different sense of respect while abroad, respect that was not reciprocated in the Jim Crow South. So, families packed up and searched for new opportunities.The Great Migration led to an explosion of Black culture—with Harlem, New York, serving as the cultural hub of art, music, dance, literature, theater, and philosophy.The Metropolitan Museum of Art premiered its new exhibit, The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism, toward the end of Black History Month.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Marion County Sheriff’s OfficeThe white Florida woman accused of killing a Black mother in front of her children admitted to calling the family racial slurs in the past, police say.Susan Lorincz also allegedly claimed she acted out of self-defense and purchased the gun used in the shooting after a previous run-in with mother-of-four Ajike Owens.Lorincz was arrested Tuesday and charged with manslaughter for fatally shooting Owens, 35, through a locked front door on Friday after Owens went round to Lorincz’ house to confront her for harassing Owens’ kids.Read more at The Daily Beast.

ABC 8A Texas school is under fire after a video of students chanting racial slurs, including the N-word, surfaced. Now, community members want the students involved expelled and the president of the district’s board of trustees to resign.“It really makes my stomach ache and sick… that we have students in 2023 feel that they can actually put a race-hatred video together,” said Grand Prairie NAACP President Angela Luckey-Vaughn in a Facebook Live video this week. “What’s more disturbing is that the principal, the president of the school board…you have to step up and you have to take appropriate actions.”In a phone call with The Daily Beast, Grand Prairie Independent School District President Gloria Carrillo said the district was made aware on Sunday of a video featuring high school students using the N-word by Luckey-Vaughn. As the entire district is on spring break, Carrillo said the situation has yet to be properly investigated.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here