After a 22-year-old woman made a complaint about the Merriam-Webster Dictionary definition of the word “racism,” the 189-year-old dictionary company made the change on her behalf, now including a more broad and “systemic” understanding of the term.
Kennedy Mitchum, a recent college graduate from Missouri, made the complaint following the death of George Floyd, a black man who died last month after a police officer had his knee on the 46-year-old’s neck for over eight minutes during an arrest, as shown in viral video footage.
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