A school district is drafting a general policy to ban all items that depict the Confederate flag, after suspending nearly two dozen students for wearing clothing that featured that flag. The Montgomery County School Board in Virginia voted unanimously to draft a policy that would ban all clothing, emblems, decals, or jewelry representing the Confederate flag from all school property in the county.
A San Francisco middle school principal withheld the results of the first student council election in years because the winners were white, Asian and mixed-race–and not black or Hispanic.
One is never too young to learn about the horrors of the world – and actress Sandra Bullock is making sure her 5-year-old son gets started plenty early with lessons on racism, sexism, and homophobia.
In the face of a racially charged social media backlash, Captain America actor Anthony Mackie has walked back his endorsement of Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump.
Milwaukee Bucks big John Henson claims a Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, store, and the local police, racially profiled him on Monday.
On MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” Saturday, host Melissa Harris-Perry explained, like the desegregation of lunch counters, that if a political party were to become one that represents “people of color,” it would then cause an “exodus of white voters.” “I guess
On Saturday, taking a page out of the Barack Obama racism playbook, Hillary Clinton accused Alabama Republicans of returning the state to the era of Jim Crow laws, snapping that the state’s closing of 31 driver’s license offices was “discriminatory and demeaning.” She failed to mention that Jim Crow laws were enforced by Democrats from 1877 to 1965.
Earlier this year, after racist terrorist Dylann Storm Roof was charged with shooting nine black people in a Charleston, South Carolina, church, the media and Democrats across the nation embarked on a crusade to wipe the Confederate flag from society.
Friday on ABC’s “The View,” author of “Adios, America,” Ann Coulter shut down co-host Raven Symoné for asking why Coulter doesn’t say only nice things. Coulter hit back hard referencing Symoné’s controversy last week when she said she would discriminating against potential
Leaders of a prominent Black Lives Matter group posted a photo of themselves paying homage to Assata Shakur, the convicted cop killer who is on the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list. A prominent picture of leaders of Millennial Activists United (MAU) shows them wearing “Assata Taught Me” shirts. MAU’s “If I die in police custody…” meme was recently referenced by Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren in a speech on racial justice.
The View co-host and moderator Whoopi Goldberg disagrees with actress Viola Davis, who said during September’s primetime Emmy awards opportunities for black women are few and far between.
Milwaukee County, WI Sheriff David Clarke (D) declared the Democratic presidential debate “plantation politics in its finest hour, the continued enslavement of black people, emotionally by the Democrat Party” and “whoring for votes” on Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News
A letter sent by some members of Congress to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery demands that the bust of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger be removed from the Gallery and not be displayed anywhere within the Smithsonian.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is demanding that Utah resident Kevin Van Miltenberg remove his homemade Halloween decoration of a man hanging from a noose, calling it a “mockery of the history of lynchings in our country.”
Quentin Tarantino doesn’t care if people don’t enjoy his films.
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson argued, “the left wing does have does have standard practice for black people, and you’re not supposed to wander away from that” on Monday’s “O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel. Carson said progressives
A film about the controversial arrest of Rodney King, whose arresting officers were acquitted in 1992 of assault, leading to widespread rioting across Los Angeles, will be directed by 12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley.
The View’s Raven-Symone has apologized for saying she would discriminate against people with “ghetto” names if she were an employer.
On October 11, Governor Jerry Brown vetoed legislation intended to expunge names of Confederate leaders from schools, parks, and public property throughout the state of California.
LOS ANGELES — Members of the Black Lives Matter movement told a panel discussion at the first annual Politicon on Saturday that they see their efforts as part of the global left.
Clemson University has officially apologized for holding a “Maximum Mexican” night.
Sunday on MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton,” Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is appealing to “nativism,” and a “certain type of anger” in a “racist way.” When asked how he feels about
Trymaine Lee reported on MSNBC’s “Up” Saturday live from the scene of the Millions for Justice March in Washington, D.C., calling it a march for those that are “disenfranchised.” According to Lee, the theme of this year’s march is “Justice
Nation of Islam Leader Minister Louis Farrakhan stated, “America is under divine judgment,” citing the recent flooding in South Carolina, and “the calamities are going to get stronger” at Saturday’s Justice or Else! Event in Washington, DC. Farrakhan said, “America is
The View co-host Raven-Symone sparked an Internet controversy after Thursday’s show for saying she would have no problem discriminating against potential job applicants with “ghetto” names if she were an employer.
