On MSNBC’s Saturday show “Melissa Harris-Perry,” associate professor of History and director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut Jelani Cobb explained that the problems in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina are equivalent to the
While reflecting on Hurricane Katrina on MSNBC’s “Up with Steve Kornacki” on Saturday, Arise 360’s Lola Ogunnaike declared that if the “people on the ground in New Orleans would have been white” the response to Hurricane Katrina “would have been different.”
During Saturday’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC, host Melissa Harris-Perry and University of Connecticut professor Jelani Cobb discussed Hurricane Katrina and the perception of African-Americans in America. Harris-Perry stated that she noticed people in New Orleans during Katrina wrapped themselves in
There is no telling what innocent words will trigger an evil person to act violently, as the murder of WDBJ-TV reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward by the racist Vester Lee Flanagan shows.
Vester Flanagan may have been mentally ill. But he was the ultimate product of the left’s microaggression society.
Vester Lee Flanagan, the Virginia shooter who worked at WDBJ under the name Bryce Williams, accused co-worker Alison Parker of racism after she used the phrase “out in the field” to describe a reporter who was on assignment.
The Black Lives Matter crowd rioted and set fires in St. Louis last week after police shot a fleeing criminal who drew his gun on them. At the same time, a 9 year-old-girl was shot and killed by a thug who fired through her window as she sat and did her homework with her mom.
Thursday night on MSNBC’s “All In With Chris Hayes,” Rep. Alan Grayson (R-FL), Democratic hopeful for U.S. Senate, said supporters of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump are racist and “the worst 1.2 percentin America.” Grayson said, “People say about Trump that
On the day he was fired from a Virginia TV station, Vester Flanagan pressed a wooden cross into his boss’ hand as two police officers walked him to the door. “You’ll need this,” he said.
Thursday, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka released a video calling unspecified Republican candidates “hateful and racist” for their immigration policies. Trumka said, “Hi, I’m Rich Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO. In the last several weeks, the subject of immigrants living and
Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh argued that the WDBJ Shooter was “revved up” by the media’s coverage of the Charleston church shooting on Thursday. Rush said, “Now, this Vester Flanagan guy. He also said that the Charleston shooting is what
Activist and professor Cornel West told Carol Costello on Thursday’s “CNN Newsroom” that a lack of love is behind the murder of reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward, although murderer Vester Flanagan, aka “Bryce Williams,” wrote in his manifesto that he wanted a “race
Thursday on the “Tom Joyner Morning Show,” CNN’s Don Lemon read his editorial on the tragic murder broadcast live on television of WDBJ journalists, 24-year old Alison Parker and 27-year old Adam Ward. Transcript as follows: Twenty-four-year old Alison Parker
Vester Lee Flanagan II, 41, the gay black shooter who murdered WDBJ7 reporter Alison Parker, 24, and photographer Adam Ward, 27, who were white, started his mercurial journalistic career working for KPIX in San Francisco in 1993 as an intern.
During the reporting of the murders in a black church in Charleston, the assumed racist motive of the shooter, white man Dylann Roof, was immediately the talk of the media. But now, after an African American murdered two white former co-workers and then released a 23-page, race-tinged manifesto, some in the media are suddenly squeamish about reporting the race-based motives of the killer.
Dennison also wrote to Flanagan in November 2012 to admonish him for wearing an Obama badge while reporting on voters hitting the poll booths for the US election.
ABDO, a Minnesota-based book publisher, is set to release a middle school textbook written by Professor Duchess Harris and Sue Bradford Edwards about the anti-police movement Black Lives Matter.
Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) refused to apologize Tuesday for comments she made a day earlier, saying that Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker is “really tightening the noose, literally, around African-Americans.”
Bryce Williams’ self-described victim status, even while murdering innocents, will merit no rethinking of the divisive politics in which he apparently bathed.
The call to remove Sanger’s bust comes following the release of multiple undercover investigative videos, produced by the Center for Medical Progress, in which top Planned Parenthood medical officials explain their methods of harvesting the body parts of aborted babies for potential sale on the open market. Since the letter was published, more than 11,000 people have signed a petition calling for the removal of Sanger’s bust from the NPG.
Here’s a shocker: Media Matters has accused Breitbart of “race baiting” coverage of the shooting of Alison Parker and two others by Vester Lee Flanagan.
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) argued, “75% of the problems of the black community are self-inflicted” and “the other 25% are inflicted by the Democrat Party with their modern liberalism” on Tuesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. Clarke
The idea that disrupting and protesting Bernie Sanders speeches will change what is wrong in America is lunacy. The “BlackLivesMatter” movement is focused on the wrong targets, to the detriment of blacks who would like to see real change and to the benefit of its powerful white liberal funders using the attacks on Sanders for political purposes that mean nothing for the problems that face our community.
Salon Editor-at-Large Joan Walsh explores the Donald Trump-white nationalist connection and concludes WAKE UP SHEEPLE!
A group of black women, traveling on the Napa Valley Wine Train and expelled for their boisterous behavior, claims that they were “humiliated.”
