How to Use anti-racist in a Sentence

anti-racist

adjective
  • Maybe the anti-racist racists will have to do that this year.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 22 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Smith went onto other activism, such as civil rights and anti-racist work.
    — Jemma Stephenson, al, 16 June 2023
  • Substance and truly making tech anti-racist was never the point.
    — Allyson Kapin, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Non-Black readers, among other things, joined anti-racist book clubs and shared posts of reading lists.
    — Literary Hub, 26 Feb. 2026
  • To strip libraries of anti-racist books is a clear attempt to erase history and silence voices.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 14 May 2025
  • He was being targeted by the far right for his anti-racist, anti-fascist activism.
    — Ali Breland, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Many protesters took to the streets with anti-racist and pro-Palestinian messages.
    — Emma Bowman, NPR, 15 June 2024
  • Thousands of people gathered at an anti-racist peace protest in Walthamstow yesterday evening.
    — Laura Hawkins, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Their experiences and leadership must then be central to our anti-racist movements.
    — Rita Omokha, ELLE, 18 July 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • At the federal level, a new wave of infrastructure investment must include anti-racist planning principles.
    — Ed Gaskin, Boston Herald, 25 Aug. 2025
  • In a previous interview, Emry alleged Boswell’s anti-racist preaching upset some churchgoers and was one of the main reasons for the split.
    — Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 5 May 2025
  • The series finds an instructive case in one particular pastor, whose trajectory as a neo-Nazi skinhead turned vehement anti-racist makes for a compelling tale.
    — Benjamin Cannon, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • However, since its inception, the university’s anti-racist research center has hardly hosted any events or turned out any discernible academic content despite the more than $1 million poured into it.
    — Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 6 June 2025
  • 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
  • This change is critical to addressing disparities and furthering fair housing through the advancement of anti-racist and economically inclusive zoning actions.
    — Heidi Vonblum, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Aguirre Center for Inclusive Psychotherapy is working to address these issues by offering culturally responsive, affirming, and anti-racist mental health care.
    — Amy Marschall, Peoplemag, 19 Apr. 2023

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