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Chicago Cop Gets 5 Years for Shooting Into Car Filled With Black Teens
It must be snowing, because a federal court sentenced a white Chicago police officer to 60 months in prison for shooting into a car full of black teenagers in 2013. On Monday, Marco Proano, 42, received the five-year sentence three months after he was convicted of two counts of using unreasonable force and causing bodily…
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Meghan Markle Reportedly Moving Into Kensington Palace With Prince Harry
Oh, Gingy, are you moving your divorced black girlfriend into the palace? My, my, how things done changed for the roooooyallllls. Multiple outlets are reporting that Suits actress Meghan Markle is moving to London and straight into boyfriend Prince Harry’s house on the Kensington Palace property. She reportedly has left the legal show after seven…
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Riding While Brown: A Man Named ‘Mohammad’ Was Ejected From a Greyhound Because of His Name
A man was kicked off a Greyhound bus en route to Kansas City, Mo., in the middle of the night because of his name‚ he says. Mohammad Reza, a doctoral-degree candidate who was traveling to a conference from Dallas, says that the bus driver woke him up in the middle of the night and asked…
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This Can’t Be Good: Genealogy Companies Say They’re Willing to Give Law Enforcement Your DNA
We all have those people in our family or close circle who are just like Martin Lawrence’s character in Boomerang: They “here” on all the conspiracies—from being certain that microwaves cause sterility in black men (or is it White Owls?) to obsessively covering up the cameras on their laptops. These are the folks who would…
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Zimbabwe’s Ruling Party Gives Robert Mugabe the Boot, but the 93-Year-Old Is ‘Holding On’ Like Jeffrey Osborne
Robert Mugabe appears to be doing like that Jeffrey Osborne song once again made famous by the New Edition biopic on BET—that is, “holding on”—despite the fact that members of his own party gave the 93-year-old president of Zimbabwe about a day to resign or be forced out. Members of Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party, a party…
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Marines Respond to Video of Jarhead Serving Up Racial Epithets With a Smile
The U.S. Marine Corps issued a response to a video circulating on social media that appears to show members of the Marine Corps drinking and one saying, “Fuck niggers” just for shits and giggles. The seconds-long video, posted on Friday to Snapchat, shows one jarhead in shorts and socks drinking from a funnel and then…
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LaToya Cantrell Becomes 1st Woman Elected Mayor of New Orleans
The rich, iconic city of New Orleans has its first female mayor in its 300-year history: LaToya Cantrell was officially elected to the position Saturday night. Cantrell defeated Desiree Charbonnet with 60 percent of the vote after a monthlong runoff, WWL-TV reports. “Almost 300 years, my friends. And New Orleans, we’re still making history,” Cantrell…
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Carmen Ejogo Joins Mahershala Ali on Season 3 of True Detective
Well, it’s clear that HBO is trying to dig its True Detective anthology out of the grave, because last season was a flaming-hot Cheetos turkey of a train wreck, Colin Farrell be damned. This upcoming season—its third—will see not only the chocolate boy thunder Mahershala Ali but also Carmen Ejogo of Selma and Sparkle fame.…
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Country Singer Criticizes Protests With Ineptly Named Ditty, ‘Take a Knee, My Ass’
First of all, what a dumb song title. I don’t even understand it. But then, I don’t understand the sentiment behind it, either (and they say country music is just “simple tales”). Pfffft. Recently, country music singer Neal McCoy released a song called “Take a Knee, My Ass” on Facebook Live, a pointed dig at…
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Thousands of Zimbabweans Take to the Streets, Telling Robert Mugabe and ‘Gucci Grace’ to Kick Rocks
When Bob Marley sang “I’n’I a-liberate Zimbabwe” in 1979, he was praising the efforts of freedom fighters like Robert Mugabe, a Zimbabwean revolutionary who was once jailed for fighting against colonial British rule. Some 30-plus years later, however, Mugabe, for all intents and purposes, has been ousted by his military—and the people—who took to the…
