You wake up on a rainy Sunday morning, buzzing with energy. Your 14-year-old son is out playing football in the mud with his friends, so you jump in. From the window, your wife smiles and says, ...

(CNN) -- The words and phrases permeate nearly every aspect of our society. "Master bedrooms" in our homes. "Blacklists" and "whitelists" in computing. The idiom "sold down the river" in our everyday ...

As cities topple Confederate monuments and sports teams abandon Native American mascots, people are increasingly reconsidering their use of common words and phrases that conjure racist imagery, a ...

Americans may unwittingly evoke racism when they use phrases like "sold down the river" for exaggeration, a UC Santa Barbara linguistics expert said. Sunday, April 11, 2021 The words and phrases ...

But racism is so deeply ingrained in American society, even some of our seemingly innocuous, everyday language is marred by prejudiced ideas. “Stories are made up of words, but words are also made up ...

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The words and phrases permeate nearly every aspect of our society. “Master bedrooms” in our homes. “Blacklists” and “whitelists” in computing. The idiom “sold down the river” in our everyday speech.