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Chicago Zoo Fires Black Employee for Facebook Post About ‘Rude Ass White People’
Brookfield Zoo in Chicago fired a black employee who complained on Facebook about serving “rude ass white people,” the Chicago Tribune reports. Rochelle Robinson, 22, worked at the zoo’s concession stands. She told the New York Daily News that most of her customers were white people. Some of them would call her names, throw items…
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Family of Ga. Man Who Died in Police Custody Wants an Independent Prosecutor
The family of Matthew Ajibade is frustrated with getting few answers about his death in police custody at a Chatham County, Ga., jail. It’s now asking a judge to remove the county’s district attorney, Meg Heap, and appoint an independent prosecutor, Fox 6 WBRC reports. In the conflict-of-interest complaint, the family alleges that Heap’s relationships…
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Jesse Matthew Takes Plea in 2005 Va. Sexual Assault
In a Fairfax, Va., court, Jesse Matthew took a plea Wednesday in a decade-old sexual assault, the Washington Post reports. The charges included attempted capital murder, abduction with intent to defile and sexual assault. Matthew, 33, entered an Alford plea, which means that he does not admit guilt but acknowledges that the commonwealth has enough…
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Federal Judge Orders Notorious Angola Prison in La. to Release Black Panther, but State Declines
There’s a legal tug-of-war going on between a federal judge and Louisiana. On Monday U.S. District Judge James Brady ordered the immediate release of Albert Woodfox from a Louisiana prison, according to the New Orleans Times-Picayune. But the state is appealing Brady’s ruling. The 68-year-old Black Panther has been in solitary confinement at the infamous…
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Barbershops Get Stocked With Books for Boys, Thanks to Ala. Attorney
An article published in The Root last year about a Florida barbershop that promotes literacy sparked a movement miles away in the cities of Prichard and Mobile, Ala. Freddie Stokes launched Books for Boys about three weeks ago. He initially intended to establish small libraries, of about 75 books each, in two or three barbershops,…
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Tech Pioneers: Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves
It was a pleasantly shocking moment that Dara Solomon and Fela Strickland-Smith will always remember. At Black Enterprise’s Entrepreneurs Summit last month, the magazine awarded the sisters a Small Business Award as Family Business of the Year. The recognition is especially surprising because the sisters launched Satori Interactive in 2004 without any entrepreneurial experience, business…
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Report: Mo. Police Disproportionately Stop and Search Black Drivers
Missouri police were more likely to stop and search black drivers than white drivers in 2014, yet they were more likely to find contraband with white drivers, an annual Missouri attorney general report reveals, according to the New York Times. According to the report, police were 75 percent more likely to stop black motorists than…
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Devon Still’s Daughter Experiences Setback in Her Battle Against Cancer
Devon Still is urging all of us to keep his 5-year-old daughter in our thoughts. On Friday he tweeted, “I need some prayers sent up for Leah tonight! We hit a pretty serious complication from the stem cell … ” Just two months after announcing that she’s in remission from cancer, the Cincinnati Bengals defensive…
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Study: Black Teachers are Just as Likely as White Teachers to Disproportionately Punish Black Students
Implicit bias makes teachers of all races more likely to punish black students than white students for the same misbehavior, according to a new Stanford University study, the Huffington Post reports. In an experiment, teachers of all races exhibited unconscious bias against students with “black-sounding names.” Researchers showed teachers the school records of misbehaving students.…
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