The Bakhetle supermarket in Moscow issued an apology Thursday saying it was unaware that President Barack Obama’s image was superimposed over a monkey’s face on a cutting board, according to Agence France-Presse. The apology came after protests from the U.S. Embassy over the offensive cutting board that had an image of a family of monkeys,…

A working paper (pdf) from Harvard Business School released Wednesday found “widespread discrimination” by hosts against people with black-sounding names seeking home rentals, reports the New York Times. The Times writes that fictional guests set up by three researchers “with names like Lakisha or Rasheed were roughly 16 percent less likely to be accepted than identical…

After a jury found a former Oklahoma City police officer guilty of multiple charges of raping black women, two of those women spoke out about the pain and suffering they endured at the hands of a man who was supposed to protect them from criminals. Instead, he was the very man from whom they needed…

The Rev. Al Sharpton on Saturday will call on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to recuse himself from ‪Fisher v. University of Texas after he argued that blacks should attend slower-track schools, where they perform better. The longtime civil rights leader is scheduled to make the call Saturday during a rally at his National…