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Photo credit: Photo by John Pike. Used with permission. – Emily E. Smith revamped her curriculum to better meet her students' needs.

Education, Teachers

Teacher shares how one interaction with a student led her to change her entire curriculum

Upworthy Staff

12/4/2025
Homeowners celebrate the completion of their new home in Cambodia's Siem Reap Province alongside Habitat for Humanity volunteers and staff.

In Partnership With Habitat For Humanity →

Culture, Family

A safe, stable home can change lives for the better. Here’s how Habitat for Humanity wants to make that possible for everyone.

Sarah Watts

3/25/2026
Family, Motherhood, Uncategorized

Black mom has perfect response to people asking why her baby is white with blonde hair and blue eyes

Tod Perry

9/10/2025
Education, Teachers, Uncategorized

A boy told his teacher she can’t understand him because she’s white. She didn’t mince words.

Upworthy Staff

8/29/2025
Photo credit: Canva – Is it racist to think people of a certain race all look the same? Not necessarily.

Internet, Pop Culture, Popular

A traveler admitted that she couldn’t tell Korean locals apart. They said she wasn’t racist.

Jacalyn Wetzel

8/27/2025
Photo credit: via Angie Jones / Twitter and Matt Blaze / Flickr – 10 Black women sat in first class on an airplane and it revealed a lot about race in America

Identity, Popular, Race & Ethnicity

10 Black women bought first-class airplane tickets, and it revealed a lot about race in the U.S.

Tod Perry

5/23/2025
Photo credit: Photo by John Pike. Used with permission. – Emily E. Smith is no ordinary teacher.

Education, Popular, Teachers

A boy told his teacher she can’t understand him because she’s white. Her response is on point.

Upworthy Staff

2/10/2025
Photo credit: Image from Facebook of Alexandra Dal. – People of color experience many types of subtle racism.

Identity

A 10-panel comic explores a subtle kind of racism many people of color experience

Upworthy Staff

12/23/2024
Photo credit: Photo by fauxels/Pexels – Code switching is a natural tendency.

Culture, Joy

What is ‘code switching’ and why do people do it?

Annie Reneau

9/5/2024
Photo credit: Array – Array

Heroes, Joy, Popular

During the attack on Pearl Harbor, this black sailor broke the rules to save lives.

Upworthy Staff

8/23/2024
Photo credit: All images via Lietuvos žmogaus teisių centras/YouTube – Array

Identity, Popular, Race & Ethnicity

When a man asks people to translate a hate message he’s received, their response is unforgettable

Upworthy Staff

7/23/2024
Photo credit: Tweigel59/Wikimedia Commons – LeVar Burton plays himself on the FX mini-series "Clipped."

Identity, Popular, Race & Ethnicity

LeVar Burton reveals why his chains from ‘Roots’ hang above his Emmys in his living room

Annie Reneau

7/8/2024
Photo credit: via Dr. X / Twitter – Gerod Roth's racist Facebook post.

Identity, Popular, Race & Ethnicity

This offensive photo sparked a whole lot of love for the boy who deserved better

Upworthy Staff

3/5/2024
Photo credit: LeVar Burton/X (via Finding Your Roots/PBS) – James Henry Dixon was a North Carolina farmer with a wife and children when he fathered Burton's great-grandmother.

Identity, Popular, Race & Ethnicity

LeVar Burton shares thoughtful reaction to finding out he has a Confederate ancestor

Annie Reneau

1/19/2024
Photo credit: Image from YouTube video. – This is Ernestine Johnson.

Identity, More, Popular, Race & Ethnicity

They liked her because she ‘talked white.’ I bet they didn’t expect this.

Upworthy Staff

10/19/2023
Photo credit: The Man Enough Podcast/YouTube – Hank Azaria spoke with The Man Enough Podcast about his evolution with the character Apu.

Identity, Pop Culture, Popular, Race & Ethnicity

Hank Azaria shares how he flipped 180 degrees on his voicing of Apu on ‘The Simpsons’

Annie Reneau

9/9/2023