culture
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Facebook-ing Suspect, 16: It Wasn't Over Jacket, It Was Over Your Mom
The 16-year-old arrested in an ice-skating rink shooting in New York City’s Bryant Park threw f-bombs and smiled at reporters as detectives escorted him in handcuffs out of the Midtown South Precinct stationhouse en route to court, the Daily News reports. Cory Dunton was arrested early Sunday after police cornered him in his apartment, even…
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White Candidate Who Implied He Was Black Denies Deceiving Voters
Dave Wilson, the white candidate who implied he was black and won a seat on the Houston Community College Board of Trustees, denied accusations that he deceived voters. “Since this was a heavily African-American district and my opponent is African-American, I wanted to keep race out of it,” Wilson told ABC News. Wilson won the…
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White Supremacist Learns He Is 14 Percent Black
A white supremacist whose dream it was to turn North Dakota into an “all-white enclave” found out that even he wouldn’t be able to live there, since he is 14 percent black. Craig Cobb, a 62-year-old white separatist who wanted to start a community for white supremacists and neo-Nazis, found out on The Trisha Goddard…
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2 Arrested in Houston House-Party Shooting
Two young men have been arrested and charged in connection with a shooting at a Houston house party over the weekend that left two people dead and 19 wounded, authorities announced Monday. According to the Associated Press, Willie Young, 21 and Randy Stewart, 18, were arrested Monday morning. Young was charged with deadly conduct, while…
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Dolphins Owner to Address Martin, Locker Room Culture
Jonathan Martin, the Miami Dolphins offensive lineman who left the team after claims of being bullied, has most likely played his last downs with the Dolphins, a source told ESPN. Martin is expected to meet with Dolphins owner Stephen Ross, who has been in communication with Martin via text messages since he left the team.…
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Removing Klansman’s Name From School Is Long Overdue
Since Barack Obama made history as the nation’s first black president in 2008, efforts to whitewash all the other history that the nation had to overcome to get to that moment have been leaking into lesson plans. Two years after his election, Texas made massive changes to its textbook curriculum that, among other things, watered…
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Having a Black Name Isn’t the Issue
Last week the Kansas City Star published “Burdened by Bigotry, a Girl Born Keisha Changes Her Name.” A 19-year-old woman born to a single white mom (and a seemingly absentee black dad) explained to the publication why she opted to switch from what is widely considered to be a black name to a name—Kylie—that’s, let’s…
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At UCLA, Black Men Only 3.8 Percent of Population
The University of California, Los Angeles, has a diversity problem, and some students aren’t going to let it rest without speaking up. Sy Stokes, a third-year student at UCLA, posted a video to YouTube last week highlighting the lack of diversity on campus. Stokes and a few other black men at the campus showed signs…
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Posthumous Retrial Possible for Black Teen Executed for Murder in 1944
In 1944 a 95-pound 14-year-old boy was strapped to an electric chair in South Carolina for murdering two little girls, ages 7 and 11. He is the youngest person ever to be executed in the United States in the last 100 years, The Telegraph reports. George Stinney, an African American, was accused of killing two…
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Clotting Gene Gives Clue to Black Heart Disease
Black Americans are twice as likely to develop heart disease as white Americans, and a gene may yield a clue as to why, a new study has found. According to the New Scientist, the fragments in the blood, or platelets, form blood clots—components of heart disease and heart attack—more easily in African Americans. “Unexpectedly, we…