According to CNN, Mitchum sent her email and got a reply from editor Alex Chambers the next morning.

“I kept having to tell them that definition is not representative of what is actually happening in the world,” she told CNN.

After an email exchange, the editor agreed that the definition should be updated.

“This revision would not have been made without your persistence in contacting us about this problem,” Chambers said in the email, which was provided to CNN.

Peter Sokolowski, an editor at large at Merriam-Webster, also spoke with CNN that its entry also defines racism saying it was “a doctrine or political program based on the assumption of racism and designed to execute its principles.”