culture
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Black Republican Claims Cliven Bundy Not ‘Racist at All’
Niger Innis, the national spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality doesn’t believe that Cliven Bundy—yes, the Cliven Bundy who was taped saying, “Blacks were better off as slaves”—is racist and said as much at an event this past weekend, Mediaite.com reports. Innis, who’s running for Nevada’s 4th Congressional District—which the website reports is also…
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Report: Shelly Sterling Close to Selling LA Clippers
The NBA’s wish to have the Los Angeles Clippers owned by anyone not named Sterling is getting closer to becoming reality as reports have Shelly Sterling close to signing a deal presumably as early as this week, the New York Daily News reports. Shelly Sterling is now facilitating the deal after her “estranged” husband, disgraced…
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Comparing Black People to Apes: It’s Worse Than You Thought
Last night we had a couple over as dinner guests. The wife is an old friend of my wife’s, from Chicago. I never liked her. She moved to Australia and got married, and she and her husband were here visiting. At one point, discussing the aboriginal people of Australia, she said, “They have a very simian—a…
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Cicely Tyson: 6 Career-Defining Roles
Long before Kerry Washington started handling her business in her Emmy-nominated role as Olivia Pope, actress Cicely Tyson was doing her thing and helping to open doors for actresses like Washington. Forty years ago, Tyson became the first black woman to win an Emmy in a leading role for her performance in the miniseries The…
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‘Case for Reparations’ Explains How America Must Come to Terms With Its History
Social media is buzzing over Ta-Nehisi Coates’ remarkable essay, “The Case for Reparations,” recently published in The Atlantic, and his appearance on legendary journalist Bill Moyers’ Moyers & Company, in which Coates distills the ways in which American history has distorted our understanding of contemporary race relations. White supremacy, he reminds us, is as integral…
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New Study Shows We’re Not Post-Racial When It Comes to Hiring Decisions
A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research reinforces a reality that many of us have long understood and that is well-documented: African-American unemployment has been nearly double that of white Americans throughout much of the last five years. What has not been as widely covered is that racial disparities in unemployment…
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Watch: Cops Blast KRS-One’s ‘Sound of Da Police’
Looks like a few British police officers have a love for old-school hip-hop: Two officers in Chelmsford, Essex, were busted for blasting KRS-One’s “Sound of Da Police” out of their patrol car after footage was uploaded to social networking sites. According to New York’s Daily News, the officers were disciplined after video was uploaded to YouTube…
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Georgia Teen Killed and 2 Injured in Hit-and-Run
A 15-year-old Georgia teen was fatally injured and two other teens were hospitalized after two men involved in a high-speed chase hit the three teens as they were walking to see a movie. According to WSB-TV, the girls have been identified as Reina As-Salaam, 15, and Juliana Ferrell and Monica Epps, both 16. Reina died…
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Report: Miss. Judge Smacks Mentally Disabled Black Man, Tells Him ‘Run, N–ger, Run’
A white Mississippi Justice Court judge is accused of slapping a 20-year-old mentally disabled African-American man and yelling, “Run, n—ger, run,” after he fled. “This is 2014,” said former Canton Mayor William Truly, president of the Canton branch of the NAACP, “not 1960, where someone could slap a young man and call out, ‘Run, n—ger,…
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Brothers’ Fight Over Clothes Leads to Murder-Suicide
A fight between two brothers over sharing clothes turned deadly after Steven Odeus shot and killed his older brother Stanley Blanc and then took his own life. “Started off as a small petty argument over clothes that escalated into a fight,” Marc Blanc, a third brother told CBS4 News. “Right before my eyes my brother…