On Tuesday, the Texas Department of Public Safety released the arrest video of Sandra Bland, the 28-year-old black woman found dead three days later after allegedly hanging herself in jail.
Nicki Minaj earned three MTV Video Music Award nominations this week – but the rapper was apparently unsatisfied, because she took to Twitter to complain that her music video for “Anaconda” wasn’t nominated for the network’s top “Video of the Year” honor.
So it turns out a half century on that Atticus Finch — America’s fearless moral compass on matters of race, our Moses of The South — got old and turned into just another crotchety Archie Bunker, barking about blacks, white outsiders and the meddlesome federal courts.
On his Sirius-XM Mad Dog Sports Radio show Tuesday, ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith defended Democratic presidential candidate and former Gov. Martin O’Malley (D-MD) for saying “all lives matter” after he was booed by a crowd for his comments. Smith acknowledged that black
This week, New York magazine ran a nearly 6,000 word piece by Lyle Ashton Harris on columnist Ta-Nehisi Coates, the widely-praised writer for The Atlantic who has now been dubbed the voice of black America.
On Sunday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Morehouse College Professor and CNN Commentator Marc Lamont Hill said it was “stupid” for former Maryland Governor and Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley to say “all lives matter” at the Netroots Nation conference on Saturday. After fellow
“Black Twitter” took 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to task this weekend after he chose to ignore chants from “Black Lives Matter” protesters at the Netroots Nation left-wing bloggers’ conference in Phoenix.
Rapper 50 Cent called telecom giant AT&T “racist” in a series of Instagram posts over the weekend for threatening to pull premium cable channel Starz, and by extension, his television show Power, off of the network’s U-Verse service.
CHARLESTON, S.C., July 19 (UPI) — In the latest chapter of the outcry over the Confederate flag issue in South Carolina, an unexpected scene emerged from rallies involving the Ku Klux Klan and black supporters this weekend — a photo of a black police officer helping a white supremacist at the Capitol in Charleston.
Some residents of View Park’s predominantly African-American community fear an effort to designate the neighborhood, known by many as the “Black Beverly Hills,” as part of the National Register of Historic Places is really a masked gentrification ploy to push them out in favor of a more affluent, white population.
Al McCray from Tampa, Florida is a black member of a Confederate group who defends the Rebel flag.
An activist Chicago Catholic priest is trying a new tactic in his quest to stamp out the Second Amendment in Illinois. Now he is suing several nearby suburbs surrounding Chicago claiming that they are aiding and abetting the sale of illegal guns in Chicago.
British prime minister David Cameron will announce new measures to tackle Islamic extremism which may criminalise commonly held opinions. In a speech that he will deliver to Muslim men and women in the Midlands, the Prime Minister will announce that counter-extremist
A shocking video posted on YouTube claims to show members of the Bloods street gang attacking white Klan members in Columbia, South Carolina on Saturday.
Democratic presidential candidate and former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley was booed for saying “all lives matter” at the Netroots Nation conference on Saturday and later apologized for those comments. During his town hall discussion, [relevant portion begins around 19:30] protesters stood
On Wednesday, University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban joined the Confederate flag debate when he said that he does not advocate “symbols that are not positive toward human rights.” Saban later clarified his comments about the flag Wednesday on ESPN
According to a report that aired on Oklahoma City, OK’s KFOR NewsChannel4 on Wednesday, a man identifying himself as “The Black Rebel” was leading the Confederate flag-laden protest against President Barack Obama, who paid a visit to Oklahoma’s capital city
In the midst of tweeting commentary (and complaints) about President Barack Obama’s press conference on Wednesday, I received an unexpected reply from Helen Zille, one of the foremost opposition leaders in my native South Africa, and a family friend.
While on tour to promote his 1985 album Southern Accents, Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers at times performed alongside a Confederate flag; a decision he now says was “downright stupid.”
The Sacramento NAACP has blasted the Sacramento News & Review, the same weekly newspaper that requested emails Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson wanted kept secret, for running a cover featuring a cartoon of Johnson that the NAACP says is racist.
Tuesday the NAACP annual convention, President Barack Obama said our criminal justice system is “not as fair as it should be” to African-American and Latino men. Obama said, “African-Americans and Latinos make up 30 percent of our population. They make
Tuesday at the NAACP annual convention, President Barack Obama said kids in places like Baltimore and Ferguson, MO get the police called on them instead of parents and principles dealing with discipline issues. “Places like West Philly or West Baltimore
Detroit members of Al Sharpton’s National Action Network now plan to pressure General Motors to cut ties with musician Kid Rock over his use of the Confederate flag at concerts, and the company is hearing them out.
Hunger Games actress Amandla Stenberg says the media is guilty of ignoring and disparaging black females.
Former FSU quarterback De’Andre Johnson said in an interview on ABC’s Good Morning America that the alleged use of racial slurs by a woman inside a Tallahassee bar did not justify his punching her in the face.
