Los Angeles Clipper forward Matt Barnes has an unlikely defender after sending out a tweet containing the n-word. TNT analyst and basketball hall of famer Charles Barkley said Barnes had no reason to apologize for using the inflammatory word. Here’s the rub, according the Bleacher Report: Barnes was ejected from the Clippers’ 111-103 win over the…

In the aftermath of allegations of racial discrimination within the Greek system at the University of Alabama, the Huffington Post reports that one of the school’s major white sororities has elected a black president for the first time in history. Hannah Patterson, 22, an engineering student who joined Sigma Delta Tau a year ago, was…

The voices contesting North Carolina’s elections law just grew stronger. The News & Observer reports that six churches have added their names to an NAACP lawsuit challenging the law. The churches in Merry Hill, Brevard, Durham, Hickory and Chapel Hill argue in an amended complaint that cuts to the number of days for early voting…

During a candid interview recently with BBC’s Will Gompertz, Oprah Winfrey discussed racism, saying that it still exists in the world today and that it’s the singular reason that Barack Obama has been so disrespected as president, the Daily News reports. “There’s a level of disrespect for the office that occurs in some cases and…

A man hunting for his missing cousin reportedly kicked in the back door of an abandoned house and shot and killed her kidnapper during a daring rescue, according to Louisiana police authorities.  When news initially surfaced about the incident on Friday, details were unclear and it was not known who fired shots. But now, police have identified…

Dave Wilson said he was shocked when he was recently elected as a member of the Houston Community College System Board of Trustees, ousting a 24-year incumbent. Why? Well, the white Republican ran in a district whose voters are overwhelmingly black Democrats, and the odds seemed overwhelmingly against him, MSNBC reports. But he reportedly won…

In what he describes as a winning prescription in future elections for the Republican Party, GOP New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Sunday urged his constituents to reach out to minority voters. Christie should know. As the Associated Press reports, he’s just off a 22-percentage point re-election win, which he attributes to reaching out to…

Lawyers representing New York City on Saturday filed papers asking a federal appeals court to vacate a judge’s orders that require the police department to modify its stop-and-frisk practice, which has been likened to racial profiling, reports show. In papers filed with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan, lawyers argue that U.S.…

Kash Delano Register, a Los Angeles man who spent 34 years behind bars for a murder he did not commit, walked out of prison on Friday after a judge overturned his conviction, according to the Associated Press. On Thursday, Superior Court Judge Katherine Mader threw out the conviction, determining that prosecutors used false testimony at…

Actor Anthony Mackie, who has appeared in The Hurt Locker, The Adjustment Bureau and Man on a Ledge, was arrested Saturday morning for allegedly driving while intoxicated, reports show. Police reportedly pulled the 35-year-old star over about 1:30 a.m. in Harlem for tinted windows, but noticed that he had bloodshot, watery eyes, and they smelled…