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Missouri Newspaper Criticized for Racist Martin Luther King Jr. 'I Have a Dream' Caricature Cartoon
White people (and non-Black people of color for that matter) would do well to just keep Martin Luther King Jr.’s name out of their mouths. This goes especially for conservatives who only seem to know one excerpt of one speech from one civil rights leader and so they invoke their version of MLK every time…
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Texas Department of Public Safety Spent Hundreds of Hours Investigating, Finding and Arresting Black Lives Matter Protesters
The Texas Department of Public Safety responded to police brutality protests and public outcry for police accountability…by spending hundreds of hours investigating, finding and arresting the protesters. The Texas Tribune reports that the DPS has arrested more than a dozen protesters said to be involved in unruly demonstrations in Austin as early as May. The…
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'Those Not Real People': Master P Pushes New Food Brand Aimed at Replacing Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben
Man, you gotta love Percy Miller. The man who gave us No Limit Records in the mid-late ’90s, kept us entertained with club-bangers and hood-flicks through the early 2000s and has never stopped being a shining example of relentless hustle and God-tier Black entrepreneurship, is now promoting a new food brand to replace recently ditched…
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‘You Black Hanging Out With White Kids’: Arizona Drive-Thru Karen Recorded During Racist Rant
You know what? I think I’ve finally figured it out… I know why racist white people keep wilding out on camera despite the well-known trend of white people facing consequences (or at least being publicly shamed as Black Justice League Twitter drags these villainous melanin-nots all up and down the internet) after their racism goes…
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#Flint: Michigan Expected to Pay $600 Million to Victims of Yearslong Water Crisis
It has been 2,309 days—or over six years—since the people of Flint, Michigan have been without a clean and reliable water system. Now, Michigan officials are expected to announce this week that the state will pay around $600 million in damages to the victims of the crisis. The New York Times reports that the settlement…
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Virginia Committee Approves Sweeping Police Reform Bill as the State Considers Reducing Penalty for Assaulting Police
Conservatives can be mad at the Black Lives Matter movement—the protests, the civil unrest, the calls to defund the police—all they want, but nobody can deny that the movement is beginning to yield results. A prime example of those results comes to us from the state of Virginia, where a legislative panel approved on Tuesday…
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Breonna Taylor Billboard Defaced With Red Paint Over Her Forehead Resembling Bullet Wound
If the calls for justice on behalf of any Black victim of police violence should be considered a no-brainer, we should definitely be uplifting the name of someone who was fatally shot during the botched serving of a drug warrant while unarmed and in the confines of her own home where no drugs were found.…
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Black Army Vet Called N-Word Several Times at New York 'Back the Blue' Rally and Somehow She’s Surprised
In today’s episode of Now, Sis, a Black Army veteran learned a valuable lesson after she showed up to a Back the Blue rally on Sunday in Wayne County, N.Y., and was met with an unexpected discovery—they racist AF up in there. Just as Black people discovered long ago that not all skin folk are…
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Steve Harvey and Kanye West Were Chilling at Chick-Fil-A…and I Just Want to Know What That Is in Harvey's Pocket
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before, but… So Kanye West and Steve Harvey walk into a Chick-fil-A… What? You heard this one? No, bruh, the punchline is not, “They joined the CEO in opposing gay-wedding-abortions to protect their religious freedoms”—dude, that’s dark. Anyway, Yeezus and the Darkwing Duck cosplay champion apparently paid a…
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Black Woman Records Racist Rant of White Man Who Led Florida Deputies in High-Speed Chase
Despite the multitude of stories popping up in our newsfeed that show white people facing consequences after their racism was caught on camera, a lot of white people still appear to be comfortable showing off the extent of their bigotry even after they realize they’re being recorded. In Florida, the apparent epicenter of white insanity,…
