Ferguson was a community on edge again Monday, a day after a protest marking the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death was punctuated with gunshots and police critically wounded a black 18-year-old accused of opening fire on officers.
Is the Klan still around? I ask because Black Lives Matter has been so busy turning the entire American population against its own cause, you have to wonder if BLM is an astroturfed ploy of the American Nazi Party or some related anti-black organisation.
Obama pointed out that the problems that were getting more attention in the country were not new, but perhaps they were more pronounced as a result of social media. “Because of smartphones and cameras and, you know, social media, I think people have become more aware of them, both black and white,” he said.
A scene that saw “Black Lives Matter” protesters chanting “We ready for war” and taunting the police quickly turned to gunfire in Ferguson, Missouri Sunday night at the one-year anniversary protest of Michael Brown’s death.
Sunday on NPR’s “Morning Edition,” host Steve Inskeep asked President Barack Obama if being the first black president stopped him from addressing race issue. Obama said if Ferguson had flared up in his first term, he would have commented but
Vox chief political correspondent Jonathan Allen reacted to Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s showing during Thursday’s GOP Debate in an appearance on Saturday’s “Up with Steve Kornacki” on MSNBC. Allen said Trump “still appeals to the people he appeals to who, are angry and in
Morehouse College Professor and CNN Commentator Marc Lamont Hill stated that GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson’s remarks on race were “a step further into racial amnesia and racial blindness” on Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield.”
Earlier this year, the Chicago Police Department was criticized for purportedly having stopped and checked a disproportionate number of blacks and even made more stops than departments in other cities. Now the department has agreed to outside monitoring of its “stop and frisk” practices.
Django Unchained actress Daniele Watts and her boyfriend penned a court-ordered apology letter to the officers she accused of racism last year after the two were found being overly affectionate in a public parking lot.
A British man is facing seven years in prison for threatening to stand outside a mosque in Scotland and burn an Islamic State battle flag, in a Facebook post that was reported to police. Kenneth Meek, 54, of Livingston, West
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson criticized “purveyors of hatred, who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it” and stated “those who want to destroy us are trying
From 2007 to 2014, less than one-third of the speaking parts in the most popular films were given to women, and aside from a few isolated pictures, film roles are still dominated by straight, young, white males, according to a new study.
On Monday, the Congressional Black Caucus sent members to Silicon Valley to bully high-tech companies into hiring more blacks as part of their Tech 2020 Initiative.
Defenders of the Democrat-aligned activist movement Black Lives Matter claim that the community organizing group is merely taking a reasonable stand against police brutality.
For the second time in a month, a Confederate monument in Charlotte, N. C. has been vandalized, this time with spray paint.
Missouri State Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal (D) argued “many officers…feel the same way as Darren Wilson, and they don’t think about the real lives of individuals who are dying every single day in their hands” on Tuesday’s “CNN Newsroom.” Chappelle-Nadal, in reaction
Supporters of Tremain Wilbourn, the Memphis ex-con accused of shooting Officer Sean Bolton when he interrupted a drug deal on Saturday night, have started an IndieGoGo campaign to funnel money to him and his family.
Last week in Miami at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Nation of Islam head Louis Farrakhan said he was looking for “10,000 fearless men” to “rise up and kill those who kill us; stalk them and kill them and let them feel the pain of
ESPN NFL reporter Sal Paolantonio spoke on Tuesday’s ESPN Radio show “Mike and Mike” about the situation with Philadelphia Eagles head coach Chip Kelly being labeled a racist by former players LeSean McCoy and Brandon Boykin and former assistant coach Tra Thomas, as well as ESPN’s
Comedian D.L. Hughley told TMZ on Sunday that Donald Trump is doing well in the polls because of all the “racist stuff” he says.
On Monday’s “First Take” on ESPN, co-host Stephen A. Smith once again hinted that Philadelphia Eagles head coach Chip Kelly is racist after former player Brandon Boykin was traded and said his former coach “can’t relate and that makes him
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he will “win the African-American vote” because President Barack Obama “has done nothing for African-Americans.” Trump said, “I think it’s a shame for the African-American people. by the way,
On MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry,” host Melissa Harris-Perry scolded Democratic presidential hopeful former Gov. Martin O’Malley (MD) for his comments from July when he said, “white lives matter,” which was followed up by boos from the crowd. “Well, Martin O’Malley, just no.
MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry spoke Saturday on her show about African-Americans fear police officers at this time after recent deaths of blacks at the hands of police officers such as Sandra Bland and Samuel DuBose. Harris-Perry first pointed out that nobody should be killed for not
Friday in Fort Lauderdale, FL at the National Urban League Conference, Republican presidential candidate former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) said President Barack Obama is “speaking the truth” on racial injustice. Bush said, “When President Obama says that ‘for too long
