How to Use anti-racist in a Sentence

anti-racist

adjective
  • This past week, anti-racist counter-protests swept the U.K., and the British justice system was again in full swing.
    — Mohammed Hanif, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Two-hundred thousand dollars or more is a lot to pay for lessons in how to be an anti-racist.
    — Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Many protesters took to the streets with anti-racist and pro-Palestinian messages.
    — Emma Bowman, NPR, 15 June 2024
  • Or could the doc have brought us back to the present, highlighting examples of Black women leading anti-racist movements?
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Smith went onto other activism, such as civil rights and anti-racist work.
    — Jemma Stephenson, al, 16 June 2023
  • He was being targeted by the far right for his anti-racist, anti-fascist activism.
    — Ali Breland, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2023
  • My partner acknowledges their privilege here, and has always been on the same page about teaching our children to be anti-racist.
    — Sahaj Kaur Kohli, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Kendi’s stark provocation that one is either a racist or an anti-racist epitomized the morality play that the right has come to describe as the essence of woke politics.
    — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2023
  • Thousands of people gathered at an anti-racist peace protest in Walthamstow yesterday evening.
    — Laura Hawkins, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2024
  • John said their business is firmly anti-racist and welcomes anyone hoping to purchase a quality cup of coffee.
    — Brenna Gauchat, The Arizona Republic, 13 Mar. 2024
  • She was inspired and studied Black liberation and anti-racist movements.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Their experiences and leadership must then be central to our anti-racist movements.
    — Rita Omokha, ELLE, 18 July 2023
  • In one sense, the furious backlash against the anti-racist outpouring of 2020 and the decade-old Black Lives Matter movement can be interpreted as evidence of the success of those endeavors.
    — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
  • In one of the larger anti-racist demonstrations, in the London neighborhood of Walthamstow, aerial footage shows as many as 8,000 people gathered in solidarity.
    — Armani Syed, TIME, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Starbucks and Pepsi fans likely didn’t find anti-racist causes wrong, just the messaging heavy-handed and poorly executed.
    — Michael Serazio, Vox, 29 May 2024
  • One suggested remedy for white privilege is to be actively anti-racist.
    — John MacCormick, Fortune, 9 May 2023
  • Lloyd can explain it only by analogizing anti-racist pedagogy to brainwashing.
    — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
  • For years, Democrats have been drifting toward a policy of neglecting immigration law and the border for supposedly anti-racist reasons.
    — The Editors, National Review, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The school district that includes Charlottesville, Virginia, began devising an anti-racist curriculum after white supremacists gathered there in 2017 for the Unite the Right rally.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
  • In April 1968, anti-racist protesters and anti-war protesters took over Columbia's Hamilton Hall, as well as several other buildings.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 6 May 2024
  • Later that year, Rivendell began offering discounts to interested Black customers who came into the shop: an effort at anti-racist action, if an imperfect one.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Existing policies haven’t worked Many institutional policies outline anti-racist and anti-sexist goals, but research shows results have been slow in coming.
    — Jennifer R. Grandis, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2023
  • To medical schools and academic centers in the country, Dr Blackstock’s call includes a commitment to invest in the pipeline of Black physicians and commit to a meaningfully diverse, inclusive and anti-racist learning environment.
    — Madhukar Pai, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Ultimately, the answer to how cities can plan to be anti-racist, address health equity or promote environmental justice rests with concerned constituents and council members crafting a feasible plan of action.
    — Catherine Brinkley, The Conversation, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Darden also recommended that human resources, the central office staff and administrators, all of whom participate in the hiring process, take regular anti-bias, anti-racist training.
    — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 19 July 2023
  • Maybe the anti-racist racists will have to do that this year.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2025

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