culture
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Spike Lee Gets Real About Gentrification
Director Spike Lee let them know how he really felt on Tuesday night. According to New York magazine, Lee was speaking at Pratt Institute for a Black History Month lecture when an audience member asked him about “the other side” of the gentrification debate. “Let me just kill you right now, because there was some…
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Richie Incognito’s $300,000 Ferrari Vandalized
Richie Incognito, the ex-Miami Dolphins lineman at the center of the Jonathan Martin bullying scandal, had his $300,000 Ferrari vandalized with a baseball bat, New York Daily News reports. The bully’s ride, which was reportedly purchased in November, has severe damage to its grill and hood, according to pictures acquired by TMZ Sports. Incognito’s black…
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Police Who Fatally Shot Homeless Man 11 Times Over Stolen Coffee Won’t Be Charged
The Michigan police officers who fired their weapons 47 times, fatally shooting a homeless man after a confrontation over stolen coffee, won’t face federal charges, Rawstory reports. Federal authorities including the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice announced earlier this week that there wasn’t enough evidence to charge the six Saginaw police officers. “After…
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Scandal Is Back and We Need Answers
For most of the country, winter has felt longer and colder than usual. And while that isn’t Scandal’s fault, having Shonda Rhimes’ hit drama on hiatus since Dec. 12 certainly hasn’t helped. If you’re like me, at this point you’ve exhausted all other alternative forms of entertainment. Super Bowl? Check. NBA All-Star Weekend? Check. State…
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Band’s Show Allegedly Cut Short Because ‘Too Many Black People’ Were in Audience
The Reprieve Blues Band is claiming that their performance at a bar in Chicago was ended because the owner claimed there were “too many black people” in the audience, CBS Chicago reports. The band’s singer and trumpeter, Brandon Bailey—the only black member of the band—says that he felt his black friends and supporters weren’t welcome…
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Jason Collins’ No. 98 Jersey Is NBA Top Seller
Even though Jason Collins only signed a 10-day contract with the Brooklyn Nets, NBA.com can’t keep his jersey in stock. According to New York’s Daily News, a league representative confirmed that the Brooklyn Nets’ No. 98 jersey was the top seller at the NBA store and its website, NBA.com, on Tuesday, the first day it was…
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Texas Police Defend DUI Arrest of Black Man Who Passed Sobriety Test
Texas police are not backing down or apologizing for arresting a man for drunken driving, even though his Breathalyzer result showed no hint of intoxication, the Raw Story reports. Larry Davis was arrested Jan. 13 after he ran a stop sign, the news site notes. Davis—who, officers on the scene said, appeared to be drunk—defended…
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Video Released of Man Allegedly Killed by Police Outside Okla. Movie Theater
Cellphone video has been released showing five Moore, Okla., police officers restraining Luis Rodriguez, an Oklahoma man who later died in custody, the Associated Press reports. The six-minute footage—which shows officers holding Rodriguez facedown on the ground, with one officer holding his head down—was acquired from the phone of Nair Rodriguez, his wife, who started…
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NY Knicks’ Raymond Felton Arrested on Gun Charges
Knicks guard Raymond Felton was formally charged with one count of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree and one count of criminal possession of a firearm after Felton’s estranged wife turned in to police a gun that was stored at their house. Appearing in court on Tuesday, Felton appeared upbeat and did…
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Biden on Voting Rights and Black History: ‘Hatred Never Goes Away’
For the second year in a row, Vice President Joe Biden used his remarks at his Black History Month reception to emphasize that the fight for voting rights didn’t end during the civil rights movement and to lament that fair access to the ballot remains an unsettled political issue. “The zealotry of those who wish…