Politics
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That ‘Mexican’ Judge Trump Bashed Is a Nupe, and 4 Other Amazing Facts
U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, 62, was born in East Chicago, Ind., to parents who immigrated to America from Mexico. He and his three siblings grew up in East Chicago, a place described by older brother Raul as one where they had “Serbian, Greek, Polish, Puerto Rican and African-American” neighbors. Gonzalo, the youngest of the bunch,…
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Trump Watch: BuzzFeed Would Rather Be $1,300,000 Poorer Than Support Donald Trump
What’s going on inside #TeamTrump? Hell If Donald Trump knows! Clearly the presumptive Republican nominee won’t back down from anything, including his own racist comments against a federal judge with Mexican ancestry who is overseeing cases against Trump University. During what has been reported as a “chaotic” conference call Monday, Trump told surrogates to continue…
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Hey Bernie, Hillary: Do You Really Care About Police Brutality in Calif., or Do You Just Want Votes?
As Californians prepare to vote in the presidential primary Tuesday, there’s one person we know for sure who won’t be participating. In fact, we will never know which candidate could have earned the vote of Jessica Williams Nelson, a 29-year-old woman from San Francisco. That’s because on May 19, Williams Nelson was shot dead by a…
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3 Things You Didn’t Know About Muhammad Ali’s Politics
Muhammad Ali—the three-time heavyweight-boxing champion, the incredible humanitarian, the inspiration for the activism of athletes all over the nation—passed away on Friday, June 3, and the world is in mourning. For many people, Ali was more icon than athlete. Like Jim Brown or John Carlos, he was someone who inspired African Americans and Muslims to…
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Michelle Obama Speaks on the Richness of Diversity in Final Commencement Address as First Lady
Michelle Obama gave her very last commencement speech as first lady at the 170th commencement of the City College of New York in Harlem on Friday. Though the skies were gray and light rain splattered caps and gowns, the mood on 133rd Street and Convent Avenue remained upbeat and festive, and of course, by the…
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Donald Trump May Not Be Our BFF, but He Is Brash Enough to Keep the Clintons Real on Race
In a recent New York Times profile of the Donald J. Trump presidential campaign, the presumptive Republican nominee for president made a curious claim: “By the way, I’m going to do great with the African-American vote. One poll came out saying Donald Trump’s going to get 25 percent of the African-American vote.” Fox News personalities…
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Red States Aren’t That Red for Trump, Thanks to Latinos
Donald Trump may be on his way to claiming the Republican presidential nomination, at least in part, by vowing to build a wall to keep Mexicans out of the U.S., but many of those Mexicans may have quietly built a wall that will keep him out of the White House. That wall is emerging in…
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A Sanders-vs.-Trump Debate Is a Horrible Idea, Unless You Want Trump in the White House
In the entirety of American political history, there has never been a good idea that stemmed from a late-night talk show. Talk shows are for stupid pet tricks, evolution of dance segments and odd recurring characters. So the idea that a debate between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump was essentially passed like a junior high…