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Rio Wharf, Where More Than 900,000 Enslaved Africans Came to New World, Becomes UNESCO Heritage Site
We know that the largest number of black people in the Western Hemisphere— and the most outside of Africa—live in the country of Brazil, because of slavery. But did you know that nearly 1 million Africans came through a recently discovered site in Rio de Janeiro—Valongo Wharf—also known as “Slave Wharf”? The area was recently…
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Twitter Scratches Its Collective Scalp After Seeing Klansman With Dreadlocks
Lawd a mussy, I must be getting old, because I think I’ve seen it all. At a recent Ku Klux Klan rally in Charlottesville, Va., at which hundreds of protesters dwarfed the 50 or so bigots bitching about a Robert E. Lee statue, a photo emerged of a young Klansman with locs. The BBC reports…
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Miss South Africa Dragged for Wearing Gloves With HIV-Positive Orphans
I can’t roll my eyes hard enough over this one. Miss South Africa has sparked the ire of the internet after images emerged of her wearing gloves while visiting an orphanage for HIV-positive children in Johannesburg. Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters, whom the Daily Mail identifies as mixed race, posted a photo of herself wearing white medical gloves…
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Family of True Blood’s Nelsan Ellis Says His Death Was Due to Alcohol Withdrawal
Nelsan Ellis, the actor best known for his portrayal of the flamboyant character Lafayette Reynolds on HBO’s True Blood, died Saturday from complications related to heart failure. On Monday, however, his family released a statement, going more in depth into the circumstances of his death, including the fact that the 39-year-old tried to withdraw from…
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Guess Who’s Bizzack? Obama to Host Gerrymandering-Busting Fundraiser in DC This Week
He’s baaaaack. And not a moment too soon. Former President Barack Obama is coming around after about six months of detoxing from his eight years of wypipo hell in office and will host a fundraiser in Washington, D.C., this week. The Washington Post reports that Obama will appear at a closed-door event for the National…
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University of Md. Names New Diversity Officer After Racial Incidents, Including Killing of Black Student, on Campus
The University of Maryland has tapped a national leader in multicultural education as its new chief diversity officer after complaints from students about a hostile racial climate on the College Park campus and that the school was not doing enough. The Baltimore Sun reports that Roger L. Worthington has been chosen for the new post…
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3rd Mistrial for White Okla. Cop Who Killed Daughter’s Black Boyfriend
Saturday marked the third mistrial in nine months for a former Tulsa, Okla., police officer who admittedly shot and killed his daughter’s black 19-year-old boyfriend. The Associated Press reports that the Tulsa prosecutor on the case expressed shock when District Judge Sharon Holmes again declared a mistrial in the case against Shannon Kepler (Holmes has overseen…
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Rapper Prodigy’s Mural Defaced a Day After Going Up
A mural for recently deceased rap pioneer Prodigy of Mobb Deep was defaced less than 24 hours after it went up in New York City’s Queens borough. Someone appeared to have thrown white paint over the two-story mural of the rapper, born Albert Johnson, who died June 20 in Las Vegas of complications from sickle…
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Recent Black College Grad Beaten to Death in Greece
A recent African-American college grad from Austin, Texas, was beaten to death Friday by a group of 10 men while visiting the Greek island of Zakynthos. Bakari Henderson, 22, was at a bar with his friends when a man approached him and they began fighting. Security asked the men to leave, and the brawl spilled…
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KKK’s Pathetic March in Charlottesville, Va., Met With Throngs of Protesters
Scores of protesters shouted down homegrown terrorist group the Ku Klux Klan as the reviled racists marched in Charlottesville, Va., to protest the removal of Confederate statues from the city. USA Today reports that more than 1,000 multiracial demonstrators flooded this city’s downtown area Saturday to shout down about 50 Klan members, some of whom…
