Why It Is So Hard to Believe These 15 Public Figures Face Accusations of Racism
NBA Player Fired Over Anti-LGBTQ Pride Month Comments Sparks Free Speech Debate
Why Every Black American Must Watch the Birthright Citizenship Fight This Week
House Democrat Seeks Reparations for Immigrants Impacted By Trump’s Policies
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'They're Harboring a Murderer': Protest Erupts After Officer Who Killed Tamir Rice Is Welcomed By Cleveland Football Team
Recreational leagues and amateur sports teams not only serve as the perfect opportunity for would-be professional athletes to live out their competitive dreams, but they also provide participants with an alternative for regular exercise and a mechanism to build camaraderie with potential life-long friends or business associates. As someone who’s played recreational sports, I often…
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Board Reverses Firings of Atlanta Cops Who Tased HBCU Students, Dragged Them From Car During Protest
Ever since a national spotlight was put on police violence and systemic racism amid a wave of nationwide protests, cops across America have been big mad and big hurt. They feel they’re being treated as unfairly in the court of public opinion as Black people are treated in actual courts. Here’s the thing, though: Who…
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Navy Investigating After Noose Found in Black Sailor’s Bed Aboard Naval Ship; Fellow Soldier Reportedly Admits to Doing It, Says It Was a Joke
It’s disturbing that nooses, which are a well-known symbol of racial terrorism and violence in America, continue to be leveraged to terrorize Black people today. On Jan. 26, a sailor aboard the USS Lake Champlain in San Diego was the latest Black person to encounter a noose at his place of work—the U.S. Navy. According…
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Tennessee Cop Reprimanded for Posting Picture of Daughter as Blackface Bubba From Forrest Gump
Sometimes I can’t tell if I’m on the internet too much or if some people aren’t on the internet enough. I’m simply at a loss for how, in 2021, some whites are still posting blackface pictures on the internet and not expecting there to be consequences. A police officer in Tennessee has been reprimanded after…
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Minneapolis Police Must Now Keep Their Body Cameras Activated at All Times When Responding to a Call
The death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police spurred an ongoing nationwide reckoning on race and intensified calls by Minneapolis residents for substantial police reform. Reform efforts have been underway in the city since last summer, with the latest policy change requiring officers to keep their body cameras on at all times…
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Comedic TV Writer Marc Wilmore, Brother of Larry Wilmore, Dies at 57
Marc Wilmore, the TV writer whose credits include In Living Color, The Simpsons, The PJs and F Is for Family, died last Saturday of COVID-19 and other health complications, his brother, TV writer and comedian, Larry Wilmore, announced Sunday on Twitter. “My sweet sweet brother, Marc Edward Wilmore, passed away last night while battling COVID…
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A Literal Chorus of Claimants Are Suing Kanye West for Mistreatment and Unpaid Wages; Class-Action Suit Now Totaling $30M
La, la, la, laaaaa, looks like we’re going to be waiting a bit longer for Kanye West to get his money right because reportedly, the way he’s been dispensing money (or not) is all the way wrong. We reported in November that a group of hairstylists and makeup artists filed a class-action lawsuit against the…
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Missouri Man Dies After Being Denied Emergency Room Care 3 Times
A Missouri man died in a hospital parking lot after his third attempt to get emergency medical treatment, his wife says. According to St. Louis-area CBS affiliate News 4, Sadie Bell took her husband, David, to the emergency room at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Peters the week of Jan. 8 after he complained of chest…
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America Predicts Six More Weeks of Whiteness (at Least)
Early Tuesday morning, a corpulent, fur-covered woodchuck waddled out of its rathole burrowed beneath the surface of facts, logic and common sense. As the blinding light of truth radiated on its dust-colored rodent skin, darkening the earth beneath the feckless furball, the assembled audience could see that this long, cold winter of America’s discontent would…
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Arizona Repairman Captured on Camera Telling Black Customer He'd Beat Him Like a 'Slave'
All the brotha was trying to do was get his refrigerator fixed. But, alas, being Black in America makes the simplest of tasks difficult because some white people can be trash. This episode of “Racist-Ass White People” took place on Jan. 20 in Avondale, Ariz., when Ricky Barnes called Select Warranty to fix his refrigerator,…