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Ballerina Misty Copeland Signs Partnership With Under Armour Brand
Leading sportwear company Under Armour is adding a very interesting new member to its team of elite athletes: African-American ballerina Misty Copeland. Copeland, who is a soloist with the American Ballet Theatre, signed a multiyear partnership with the influential clothing and accessory company. She will be featured this year in Under Armour’s biggest marketing campaign…
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Vanity Fair Slammed for Making Lupita Nyong’o Appear Lighter
Face it. Lupita Nyong’o is the new “it” girl, and one can only imagine how many magazines are dying to feature her. However, those who do get the opportunity should use Vanity Fair as an example of what not to do. The magazine included Nyong’o in a tweet on Wednesday about its upcoming issue’s Vanities…
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4-Year-Old Girl Fatally Shoots 4-Year-Old Male Cousin
A 4-year-old girl fatally shot her 4-year-old cousin while they were playing with a gun on Thursday, Detroit police said, according to CNN. Three children, all cousins, the oldest of whom was 5 and unharmed, were in a home on the city’s west side at the time of the shooting, reports say. According to Detroit…
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Judge Strikes Down Pennsylvania Voter-ID Law
In a victory for the opponents of Pennsylvania’s voter-ID law, a state judge spiked the requirement that mandated all Pennsylvanians must show photo identification before casting their ballots, the Associated Press reports. Commonwealth Court Judge Bernard L. McGinley, who is a Democrat, said that the law would place an exorbitant burden on the people’s right…
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High School Suspends Black Basketball Players, Claiming Gang-Related Hand Signs
A Wisconsin school district is standing by its decision to suspend two black basketball players because the signals they were making with their hands looked gang-related, saying that proper procedure was followed, the Raw Story reports. It all started at the beginning of the month when a local newspaper, the Sheboygan Falls News, ran what…
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Obama to Nominate His 1st Black Lesbian Federal Judge
President Barack Obama is slated to appoint his first-ever African-American openly LGBT federal judge on Thursday, once again showing his commitment to diversifying the judicial system, Politico reports. Staci Michelle Yandle, who is currently practicing privately, is the woman President Obama wants to place in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois,…
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Deaf Man Allegedly Beaten by Police for Not Obeying Orders He Couldn’t Hear
An Oklahoma City resident is claiming that Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers beat him for disobeying their orders. The only problem is that 64-year-old Pearl Pearson is deaf—a fact that he says a sign in his car indicates. According to Fox 4 News, Pearson allegedly fled the scene of a car accident before being pulled over…
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12 Years a Slave Sweeps Up 9 Oscar Nominations
The Oscar nominations were announced today, and while Hollywood favorites American Hustle and Gravity dominated the field with 10 nominations each, including best picture and best director, 12 Years a Slave was running right on their heels with nine nominations. The critically acclaimed historical film was nominated in five of the major categories: best picture,…
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NAACP Report: Diversity at Banks as Bad as at SNL
Although more people of color than ever are graduating with degrees in accounting and finance, equal opportunity in the banking industry is far from a dream realized, a new report by the NAACP (pdf) has found. The report, which was released on Tuesday, shows that the nation’s five largest banks (Bank of America, Citibank, JP…
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Educated Black Men Remembered as ‘Whiter’
If you happen to be intellectually successful and black, your peers may remember your complexion as being a little bit lighter than it actually is, a new study published on Wednesday in SAGE Open has found. The article, “When an ‘Educated’ Black Man Becomes Lighter in the Mind’s Eye: Evidence for a Skin Tone Memory…
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