A small Kentucky church has chosen to ban marriages and even some worship services for interracial couples. The Gulnare Freewill Baptist Church, located in Pike County, made the vote in response to a longtime member who is engaged to a man whose birthplace is in Zimbabwe. Other pastoral leaders in the area were quick to denounce […]
An African American waitress in Towson, Maryland is claiming that her boss ordered her to serve only Black customers who entered their Applebees location. The waitress, 27-year-old Courtney Haywood, filed a discrimination lawsuit after being fired earlier this year. She started working at the Applebees location in 2007, and when new management took over earlier […]
Black firefighters were demonstrating to a television reporter how to handle the hose. And apparently, handling the hose reminded her of the 18th century. Check out the video below: http://www.vladtv.com/embed-video/67015 What do you think? Is it a big deal, or are black people being too sensitive? via VladTV “No N*ggers Please” Sign Posted At Michigan […]
Campus Democrats President Anais LaVoie thinks one Berkeley group has crossed the line with their bake sale. The Berkeley College Republicans scheduled a bake sale where the price of a cookie or a brownie depends on your gender and the color of your skin. WTH! The price of the goodies costs $2 for WHITE people, $1.50 […]
via: TMZ United Airlines is investigating a complaint made by an actor who appeared on the TV show “Barbershop” after he claimed he was kicked off of a flight simply because he was black.
Vogue Italia’s recent “slave earrings” fashion feature has made heads turn. The same magazine that debuted it’s all-black model issue three years ago has just taken several steps way back. Oh, tell me fashion bible, what exactly is a slave earring? Are there ships and sickles involved? No? Then how can, as you’ve written, a […]
Skin care brand Nivea is currently pushing its line of men’s grooming products with ads telling men to step their appearance game up. That’s great but, um, unfortunately they’ve decided to take a shot at our afroed brothers: Post-Racial America, ladies and gents! Unsurprisingly, the internet uproar got back to the folks at the company […]
Despite facing the challenges of teen motherhood, Kymberly Wimberly had the highest GPA in her graduating class at McGehee Secondary School in Arkansas. Yet shortly after being named her school’s 2011 valedictorian, administrators announced that she would share the title with a classmate…who happened to be white and with a lower class average. Claiming that […]
Psychology Today magazine recently posted an article on their site titled: “Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women?” The mag claims that there are marked race differences in physical attractiveness among women, but not among men. Why? The article is based on a study conducted in which several people were interviewed and […]
Even though it’s 2011, we’re still litigating whether rap music in and of itself is a societal corrosive or an artistic expression that channels raw experience and expurgates emotions in the form of a catharsis. It’s really the old Plato versus Aristotle rap battles over the artistic merits of tragedy — at least we can […]
This week President Obama released his birth certificate to the public, with the hope that it would placate the crazy Tea Party/Donald Trump’s of the world. Considering he already had to prove that he was born in the USA to run for office, it was a move that should have been unnecessary in the first […]
ATLANTA-4 African-American hockey players on the Atlanta Thrashers, Anthony Stewart, Johnny Oduya Evander Kane and Dustin Byfuglien have talked with CNN Headline News to discuss racism in hockey and the NHL. SEE ALSO: Philadelphia Apologizes To Late Jackie Robinson For 1947 Racism The Psychological Toll Of Racism On Black & Minority College Students SOURCE: CNN […]