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#EbonyOwes Series Finale: Ebony Magazine Settles With Unpaid Writers
After stiffing dozens of the country’s best and most popular black journalists for years, the iconic Ebony magazine entered into a settlement agreement with a group of writers who had gone unpaid for freelance work dating back to 2015, according to documents obtained by The Root. When I was growing up, in my home there…
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I Think Donald Trump and the NRA Just Solved All That Black Lives Matter Stuff
In the ongoing search for solutions to police brutality and state violence, black America has proposed some pretty outlandish ideas, including police accountability, better law enforcement training and—most radical of all—not hiring racist cops. But the recent debate about school safety and gun control has enlightened me to the fact that the previously mentioned ideas…
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Are You a Hyper-tep? A Quiz for People Too Woke for Black Panther
By now, everyone who has seen Black Panther has encountered the phenomenon. We all have a friend who has pressed pause on their bootleg DVD of Hidden Colors long enough to explain why they aren’t interested in seeing the movie Black Panther because they know how Hollywood poisons the minds of our people, and what…
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Woman Who Lied to Police About 3 Black Men Raping and Kidnapping Her Faces Zero Years in Prison
The beautiful, blond Texas Beckymonster who falsely told police that she was raped and kidnapped by three black men agreed to a plea deal that will result in the extreme penalty of never being punished for her crime. On March 8, 2017, police in Denison, Texas, responded to a call that Breana Rachelle Harmon was…
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105 Nigerian Girls Are Missing Because Donald Trump Is a Racist Idiot
Almost a week after Boko Haram extremists kidnapped more than 100 girls, the young women remain missing, leaving parents in the northern Nigerian town distraught and angry. Many fear that the girls abducted from Government Girls Science and Tech College in Dapchi, Yobe state, Nigeria, on Monday, will become child brides for the Boko Haram…
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Kanye West Just Taped an Episode of Celebrity Family Feud That I’m Never Going to Watch Because I’m Lying to You Right Now
I’ve never watched an episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Khloé & Lamar, I Am Cait, Kylie and Kendall Go Black-Boy Fishing or any of the other iterations of the Kardashian shows. In fact, I think they’re untalented hacks who have made a fortune swallowing blackness and puking it back out because vomit spilling out…
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Illinois Republican Called Black Female Attorney General Candidate ‘Lesbo’ and Used N-Word
Question: What does a Republican call a black woman who graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Illinois, finished Harvard Law School, won the Miss America Pageant and became a successful attorney? Answer: A “lesbo” and a “nigger.” That’s what Republican candidate for Illinois Attorney General Erika Harold found out recently when one of…
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White Homeowner Nicknamed ‘George Zimmerman 2.0’ Gets Life in Prison for Murdering Unarmed Black Man
A North Carolina man who warned 911 operators that he was going to kill the “hoodlums” in his neighborhood who had the “devil in them” was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison on Friday. The 40-year-old Raleigh, N.C., homeowner shot and killed Kouren-Rodney Bernard Thomas, 20, in 2016 after Thomas left…
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Former RNC Chair Michael Steele Shocked by Racist Comment From Racist at Convention of Racists
Pundits and politicos were shocked Friday when a spokesperson for the Conservative Political Action Conference publicly admitted that former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele was the party’s token black guy. Although the comment was the least racist thing you might hear at CPAC, people were stunned by Steele’s reaction, whispering among themselves: “Wait ……
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Wisconsin High School Accused of Racist Chants During Basketball Game … Again
Apparently seeking a state title in racism, a Wisconsin high school thrust itself into national headlines for the second month in a row after a visiting basketball team accused fans of the school of making racist comments and gestures during a recent game. In January, Franklin High School was scrambling to find the culprit of…
