Smiley says Trump is appealing to those who are on the “dark side,” including a white supremacist group, who admitted to placing calls to get votes for the GOP presidential candidate. Not content to simply call out Donald Trump for being an “unrepentant, irascible, religious and racial arsonist,” Tavis Smiley has called out the […]
It seems as if Whoopi and Raven were “African American” when it was convenient for their careers. Here we go again. We’re not even a week into the New Year and Whoopi Goldberg has already misplaced her “Black Card”. On a recent episode of “The View”, the hosts were discussing the possibility of Republican Presidential candidate […]
The former Oklahoma City police officer who preyed on Black women was found guilty on 18 of 36 charges ranging from rape to sexual battery. Justice was served Thursday evening when a jury reached a verdict on charges brought against former Oklahoma City Police officer Daniel Holtzclaw. Holtzclaw was found guilty on 18 of […]
“There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a slower-track school where they do well,” said Antonin Scalia. During a hearing for an affirmative action case on Wednesday, conservative Supreme […]
When it was announced last week that Donald Trump planned a meeting with Black pastors from prominent churches, many felt the clergy were offering an endorsement. While some pastors considered Trump’s message, many of those who were invited to declined from the gate and voiced their disdain over the association with the mogul. In the […]
Law enforcement’s gentle treatment of anti-choice extremist Robert Dear is further evidence that #AllLivesMatter is a lie. On November, 27, a Robert Lewis Dear opened fire on employees, patients and law enforcement officials at reproductive health care organization Planned Parenthood clinic in Denver, Colorado and led police in a subsequent 6-hour stand-off. He was eventually apprehended, […]
Who would have guessed that a FOX News anchor believes stereotypes about Black people? During a special Thanksgiving segment on Fox & Friends, Harris Faulkner was showing her co-hosts how to make her peach cobbler for the holidays. She chatted with Elisabeth Hasselbeck, cheerily explaining how she prepares the dish. It was a pretty normal cooking […]
Detailing what many Black people know as one of the oldest racial profiling experiences, famed weatherman Al Roker took to Twitter Saturday night to announce that he filed a complaint after a NYC Yellow cab allegedly passed him to pick up a White man. “Wonder why Uber wins,” Roker wrote, mentioning the ride-share company that […]
Minneapolis police are searching for three White men after five people were shot near the Black Lives Matter protests for Jamar Clark, a 24-year-old unarmed Black man who was shot earlier this month by police. The five victims were transported to local hospitals with non-life threatening injuries Monday night, the Minneapolis Police Department said in […]
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Sunday tweeted a graphic with inaccurate statistics about 2015 murder rates in the United States. Trump’s graphic cites San Francisco’s Crime Statistics Bureau, but official crime stats for the United States are collected by the FBI, according to Think Progress. The racial makeup of the victims and offenders for […]
The magazine takes the blame for the omission, but also blames studios for putting much of an effort to look a more diverse acting pool of talent. Eight of the most acclaimed actresses grace the cover of the latest issue of The Hollywood Reporter, and there isn’t a minority in the bunch. The lack […]
When the terror attacks devastated Paris Friday, the world collectively mourned the lives of more than 100 French citizens and tourists. But the outpouring of support also ignited a debate as to why so much sympathy was given to a western country, but not to other tragedies around the world. Just one day before the terror […]