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Black Congressman Threatened With Lynching After Calling for Trump’s Impeachment
Deep in the heart of Texas, it can still be sketchy for black folks. Ask Sandra Bland. Or James Byrd Jr. Or the scores of others who lost their lives in acts of racial terror in the Lone Star State. Warning: The images in the video below are of a real-life lynching and are extremely…
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Words Shot the Sheriff? David Clarke Reportedly Plagiarized Parts of His Master’s Thesis
It seems as if everyone around our dear president is more sketchy and unqualified than the next. Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, who rode his deep-seated disdain for black people to a plum position in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, reportedly lifted text without proper attribution in his 113-page master’s thesis. An investigative report…
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Yet Another Black Girl’s Hair Policed by Her School, Her Afro Called ‘Out of Control’
A 17-year-old high schooler from Florida is the latest black girl to be reprimanded for wearing her hair in traditional black style. All over the world, black girls have their bodies, words and, increasingly, hair policed by those who have no clue. WCTV reports that Jenesis Johnson, an 11th-grader at North Florida Christian School, a…
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Yale Dean Placed on Leave for Calling Folks ‘White Trash’ on Yelp
A dean from Yale University has been placed on leave and will not participate in commencement activities for what the school terms “reprehensible” comments in several Yelp reviews. June Chu, dean of Pierson College, was officially reprimanded by Pierson Head Stephen Davis this week, according to the Yale Daily News. Last Saturday, Chu wrote to…
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Common Blood Tests May Be Dangerously Inaccurate for Lead Poisoning, in Yet Another Blow to #Flint
In the latest blow to the beleaguered but resolute city of Flint, Mich., the government confirmed this week that one of the most common lab tests for lead may have given falsely low readings. The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that children and pregnant may need to be retested for lead, NBC News reports.…
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Colin Kaepernick’s Jersey Donated to the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Looks like somebody appreciates Colin Kaepernick. Eminent sociologist, author and activist Harry Edwards, who helped to curate the National Museum of African American History and Culture’s most recent sports exhibit, “Game Changers,” feels that Kaepernick, too, needs pride of place at the Smithsonian. Edwards reportedly donated a collection of items relating to the former San…
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And Then There Were None … Statue of Robert E. Lee, Granddaddy of All Confederates, Comes Down in New Orleans
A crane removed the final homage to white supremacy in New Orleans on Friday when the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was removed, the last of four Confederate monuments to go down. The statue of the general stood atop Lee Circle, a vaunted roundabout in the Crescent City. Since 1884, Lee had stood…
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Ala. 5th-Grader Attacked and Harassed for Being Black: ‘Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, I’m White, Why Aren’t You?’
A 10-year-old boy is being racially terrorized by little inbred elementary schoolers in Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ great state of Alabama. This be the year 2017. Taylor Armbrester, 10, says he has been called “black boy” and “retarded” by other fifth-graders since he transferred to the mostly white Chelsea Park Elementary School in Chelsea, Ala.,…
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Richard Spencer, Confederate Apologists March in Charlottesville, Va., With Torches Reminiscent of KKK
Annoyingly, there’s more from whites up in arms that the many Confederate monuments to slavery defenders are being removed all over the country, a small but significant attempt at atonement aimed at the millions of African Americans who were enslaved here. On Saturday, more than a few “protesters,” including punched-in-the-face-twice-moron Richard Spencer, gathered in Lee…
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NC High School Recalls Yearbooks After Some Genius Wrote ‘Build That Wall’ as Senior Quote
In the latest site of conflict around free—or what some might deem hate— speech, a high school in North Carolina recalled its yearbooks because a student used “Build That Wall” as her senior quote. The News & Observer reports that graduating students at Richmond Early College High School in Hamlet were allowed to share a…
