Texas Mother’s Reasoning for Allegedly Boiling Her Baby Will Make You Cry
After Dissing Black Americans For Years, African Immigrants Want Us To Care As Trump Tries to Deport Them. A Professor Explains What We should Do
This Alabama City’s First-Ever Black Councilwoman Receives Letter Calling Her N-Word, and That’s Not All
New Development for White Michigan Karen Who Lied and Said Two Black Men Assaulted Her
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Gates Sends Flowers to 911 Caller
BOSTON (AP) — Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. has sent flowers and a note to the woman who unwittingly sparked a national debate on race by calling police to report what she thought might be a break-in at Gates’ home. Wendy Murphy, the lawyer for Lucia Whalen, called the flowers a “gesture of gratitude.”…
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What Kind Of A Person Cuts Funding For Battered Women's Shelters?!
Economic stresses often lead to more frequent abuse and in particular, more violent abuse. As tempers rise this form of abuse becomes all the more dangerous – and increasingly frequent. Already, the state of Rhode Island has recently seen a 25 percent increase in felony-level domestic violence crimes. Domestic violence cases have also risen in…
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Sincerely, The Blacks: Anti-Cap and Trade Lobbyists Forge Letter from NAACP
From The American Prospect: Before the big House vote on the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), Representative Tom Perriello had a tough choice to make. Perriello won his seat by a small margin and worried about attacks from Republicans campaigning against the bill. Ultimately, he voted for it, in part because he believes…
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*Cueing Up Tirade* Obama's Sister Moving to DC!
From the NY Times: The far-flung Obama clan is coming closer together. President Obama’s half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, is moving her family here from Hawaii and will spend the next several months living in the nation’s capital, White House officials say. The extended stay means that the siblings will live in the same city, at least…
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The Hangover: White House Edition
From our own David Swerdlick, originally published in the NY Daily News: After two weeks of controversy over the arrest of Harvard‘s Henry Louis Gates by the Cambridge Police Department‘s Sgt. James Crowley, I could really go for a cold brew. Couldn’t you? But that Bud Light at the White House last night wasn’t for…
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You Can't Learn From a Sound Bite
Miller Time at the White House came and went. Most black people and police critics are still shouting, “Tastes great.” White people and police supporters are still shouting, “Less filling.” The deep problem beneath the surface of the Gates-Crowley encounter has not changed at all. Let the teaching begin. The issue now is the future,…
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Banking on the Off-Season
Spending money just because you have some to spend is very, very rarely a solid fiscal strategy. But no one seemed to tell that to Portland Trail Blazers’ general manager Kevin Pritchard. All month, he has been eager to throw money after one free agent or another. And finally, late last week, he got his…
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Taking Our Cues From Martin
It’s been weeks since his arrest, but here we are still shouting about what happened that fateful day in Cambridge, Mass. And while it is somewhat striking that the murders of Oscar Grant and Sean Bell failed to generate anywhere near the same level of national attention as the Gates-Crowley affair, it is not surprising…
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Obama: Beer Meeting 'Thoughtful'
WASHINGTON (AP) — With mugs of beer and more-carefully chosen words, President Barack Obama tried to push himself and the nation beyond a political uproar, hailing a “friendly, thoughtful” conversation with the black professor and white policeman whose dispute had ignited a fierce debate over race in America. “I have always believed that what brings…