culture
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Christian Pundit Wants to Ban Homosexuality to Save Black Men
Evangelical conservative personality Bryan J. Fischer acknowledged National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day on his radio show Friday by urging for homosexuality to be outlawed because it’s decimating the African-American male population, according to a transcript from Right Wing Watch. “If you care about black people, and we do…it’s the people who do not care about…
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2 Men Nabbed in Brazen Theft of 300-Year-Old Stradivarius Violin
With a name like Universal Knowledge Allah, it might be reasonable to expect the man to know better. But the Milwaukee barber and gun licensee reportedly was involved in a highly publicized theft of a 300-year-old Stradivarius violin and tried to escape “in an older maroon minivan,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Allah, 36, and…
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No, ‘Niggardly’ Isn’t the N-Word
“Niggardly.” Go on, I dare you. Say it. Savor those syllables. Let your tongue caress those consonants. If you’re black and reading this, you may well have just laughed, smiled knowingly, been confused or even taken offense, depending on the size of your vocabulary. If you’re white and reading this, you will probably have just…
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Another ‘Stand Your Ground’ Case, Another Call for Justice
The Young Lawyers Division of the National Bar Association is a collection of young lawyers of color from across the country and around the world. Our eyes are fixed on the trial of Michael Dunn, the man accused of killing 17-year-old Jordan Davis. As a group of legal professionals, we are trained to look at…
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White, Conservative Men Dominate Sunday Morning Political Talk Shows
Do you think your favorite political Sunday morning talk shows reflect diversity? If so, you may have to reconsider that notion. A recent Media Matters report analyzing guest appearances on seven network and broadcast programs during the last year shows that white men made up the majority of all guests. Shows examined were ABC’s This…
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Ex-Conductor Files Suit After Co-Worker Cut Dreadlocks
Solomon Perry was “victimized, assaulted and harassed” by racist co-workers while trying to do his job as a train conductor at the Illinois Central Railroad, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, the Associated Press reports. Co-workers hurled racial slurs over radios and in graffiti left throughout his workplace in the…
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Have a Coke and a Bigot
The Coca-Cola commercial that debuted during the Super Bowl wasn’t supposed to be controversial; it was supposed to be a celebration of diversity, with several cultures represented to sing a multilingual version of “America the Beautiful.” The bigots didn’t see it that way, so they took to the 21st-century bigot platform, aka Twitter, to type…
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Starkly Different Stories Emerging From Michael Dunn Trial
Fact: Michael Dunn killed 17-year-old Jordan Davis. Everything else about the Florida case, however, appears to be up for debate. Dunn’s defense attorneys are certainly trying to poke holes and inject doubts into every argument the prosecution presents, CNN reports. The way Assistant State Attorney John Guy told the jury the prosecution’s side of the…
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Microsoft’s New Leadership: Is Tech Embracing Diversity? Not Quite
A remarkable aspect of Microsoft’s announcement of new leadership this week is that hardly anyone brought up the issue of race. Yet the biggest software company in the world will now be led by an Indian-American chief executive officer and an African-American chairman. The announcement that insider Satya Nadella, 46, will become the third CEO of…
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Set to Launch YouTube Show
Can’t get enough of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford? Now you can watch his antics all the time as he and his brother, a city councillor, are launching a YouTube show called Ford Nation that is set to air Feb. 10, the Associated Press reports. In a preview for the show posted Thursday, Ford asks that…