For the Record - Feb. 27, 2021
KCRW: In the Feb. 26 Calendar section, an article about accusations of racism at KCRW quoted from a letter by Cerise Castle in which she says she witnessed a staff member saying “structural racism isn’t real.” A tweet Wednesday from Castle clarified that she “conflated two meetings that happened over a year ago.” A former employee of KCRW who had reportedly relayed the remark to Castle said on Twitter that “I did tell Cerise that I felt that my editor treated [a] story like structural racism doesn’t exist.”
College basketball: In the Feb. 26 Sports pages, a roundup of Pac-12 Conference men’s basketball games referred to Oregon State as the Ducks. Oregon State’s nickname is the Beavers.
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