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antiracist

American  
[an-tahy-rays-ist, an-tee-] / ˌæn taɪˈreɪs ɪst, ˌæn ti- /

adjective

  1. opposing or meant to oppose racism.


noun

  1. a person who actively opposes racism.

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Meet F-37, a figure in the indictment a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Ala., handed up last week against the self-styled antiracist nonprofit Southern Poverty Law Center.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 30, 2026

Boston University said Tuesday that its initial inquiry into the antiracist research center run by best-selling author and academic Ibram X. Kendi found no issues with how it managed its finances.

From Seattle Times Nov. 7, 2023

Many rallied behind the Black Lives Matter movement or spoke out against racial health disparities during the pandemic, but embodying the antiracist society for which we advocated requires changing medicine, including clinical documentation.

From Scientific American Oct. 26, 2023

To be antiracist is also to admit and to recognize when we’re being racist, he added.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 29, 2023

The novelist William Gardner Smith, who died in 1974, was antiracist before “antiracist” was a ubiquitous term.

From New York Times Mar. 3, 2023

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