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  • The Devil Stays Busy: Hitler’s Old Drawers Command $5,500 at Auction

    There are very few things I’d pay $5,500 for, mostly because I don’t have $5,500. But for one lucky(?) Third Reich stan, that was just enough to secure a piece of history: Adolf Hitler’s old linen boxers. Yes, they had been used. The International Business Times reports that the “surprisingly large” boxers (gag, puke, vomit)—striped,…

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  • A Pa. Mom Demands Stronger Response From Administrators in Racial Bullying Incident: Report

    Liante Robinson says she’s still searching for answers after her 11-year-old son was attacked by a white classmate at a Pennsylvania middle school.  WTXF-TV reports that Robinson’s son, Nivre, had recently started attending sixth grade at Ridley Park Middle School when he got into an argument with a white classmate between classes. Not only did…

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  • The Burgeoning Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico

    While the Demented Cheese-Grit-in-Chief’s war against black athletes dominates headlines and social media feeds in the United States, Puerto Rico faces an increasingly desperate situation after Hurricane Maria devastated the island Thursday. Supplies and aid are headed to the island from the U.S. mainland Monday, but without power and the ability to communicate (CNN reports…

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  • EEOC Sues Ind. Nursing Home for Allowing Residents to Be Racist Toward Black Employees

    The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing an Indiana nursing home for subjecting its black employees to harassment and honoring the racist preferences of its residents. The Indianapolis Star reports that the claim was filed Tuesday. The EEOC charges that Hamilton Pointe nursing home in Evansville, Ind., blocked its black employees from entering the rooms of…

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  • Ithaca, NY, Police Identify Prep School Thug Charged With Racially Motivated Beating of Cornell Student

    Updated Thursday, Sept. 21, 2017, 3:58 p.m. EDT: John Greenwood, the 19-year-old Cornell sophomore whom Ithaca police have charged with beating a black classmate, has owned up to using racial slurs. He did not, however, refer to the group assault he’s alleged to have been a part of. In an email to the Cornell Daily…

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  • England Says ‘Oliver’ Is Its Most Popular Boy Name, but Issa Lie

    If you listened to the United Kingdom’s national statistics office, you’d be led to believe that “Oliver” was the most popular name given to baby boys in England and Wales last year. And, according to its data, that appears to be true. Except, as Quartz points out, it’s not. The most common name given to…

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  • New Study Suggests Black Middle-Class Families May Have Zero Wealth in a Few Decades

    Because of legalized segregation, job discrimination and racist housing policies, it’s not surprising that black and Latinx families haven’t had the same opportunities to amass wealth as white families have. But a new study—and an accompanying op-ed by one of its researchers—reveal that black and Latinx families have actually lost wealth over the last 30…

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  • Darth Chad Shows Everyone Why He Was Fired From Google

    Disgraced ex-Googler and champion of white-straight-male mediocrity, James Damore, is back on his bullshit, this time to lament that people can’t call certain aspects of the Ku Klux Klan “cool.” Damore, who was a software engineer at Google, first made headlines for writing an anti-diversity memo that was circulated around the company. The memo claimed,…

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  • Racists Target an Asian-American Family for Supporting Black Lives Matter

    An Asian-American family in San Francisco was targeted with racist letters this summer for posting a “Black Lives Matter” sign in the window of their home. Because of the threats and racial slur used, the harassing letters are being investigated by the police as hate crimes. But the letters have only strengthened the family’s resolve…

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  • As Hurricane Maria Passes Through Puerto Rico, Images Stream in Showing Storm’s Devastation

    Hurricane Maria’s eye passed over Puerto Rico hours ago, but early reports and footage from the island indicate that the worst may be yet to come. The dangerous storm, which hit land as a Category 4, has left the entire island—nearly 3.5 million people—without electricity, according to a number of outlets. As evening approaches, residents…

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