Unsatisfied with the removal of the Confederate flag from public places, stores and TV shows, activists are now calling for musician Kid Rock to stop using the banner at concerts.
The Los Angeles Times has hired a reporter to cover what has colloquially become known as “Black Twitter.”
The lawyer representing a former Florida State University quarterback, caught on video punching a woman in the face at a bar, claims that she provoked the assault by striking him twice and shouting racial slurs.
Last week at the Aspen Institute’s Ideas Festival, President Barack Obama’s long-time senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said the burden of race relations in America should not be Obama’s “responsibility.” When asked why Obama has not been more passionate about race
Just over 24 hours after a brutal wreck, NASCAR’s Austin Dillon shared his thoughts on ESPN’s “SportsCenter” about the Confederate flag controversy in NASCAR, saying the Confederate flag is a part of NASCAR and it has been for a long time, but on
The South Carolina Senate voted Monday to pull the Confederate flag off the Capitol grounds, clearing the way for a historic measure that could remove the banner more than five decades after it was first flown above the Statehouse to protest integration.
SALON: The fight over the Confederate battle flag may change the course of a generation of American politics. The flag is not simply about race. It is about the nature of the American government.
On his radio show earlier this week, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh reacted to the treatment of Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III after his involvement in Tuesday’s United Nations General Assembly, where Griffin, along with other celebrities, advocated for the protection and
Star Trek star George Takei apologized Friday for calling Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas a “clown in blackface” in remarks he made after the Court’s ruling to legalize same-sex marriage last week.
“When it comes to race, America is a better and more tolerant and more welcoming place than it has ever been. So why is it that even today, so many black families feel left behind?” asked Perry, noting that African-Americans continued to economically lag behind other Americans. Democrats have long had the opportunity to govern in African-American communities. It is time to help black families hold them accountable for the results.
Cultural critic and writer Michaela Angela Davis argued that the removal of the Confederate flag on South Carolina’s statehouse by protester Bree Newsome was “very American” and “also a feminist act” on Friday’s “CNN Newsroom.” Davis said Newsome’s actions were
Amid NASCAR releasing a statement asking fans to refrain from flying the Confederate flag at events, ESPN NASCAR analyst and former driver Ricky Craven was asked about his thoughts of the flag being flown at NASCAR events. Craven stated that
On Thursday’s episode of “Olbermann” on ESPN2, host Keith Olbermann continued his attacks against the so-called “racist” Washington Redskins during his “Worst Persons in the Sports World” segment. Although the call for a change has escalated in recent weeks, owner Dan Snyder
Columnist and author of “Adios, America,” Ann Coulter stated “What the Confederate flag stands for is not slavery, in fact the Democratic Party and the American flag stand more for slavery than the Confederate flag did” in an interview broadcast
This followed the sacking of Victoria Taylor, a popular site admin, after a Reddit Q&A with the Rev. Jesse Jackson went badly for the activist preacher.
South Carolina House Minority Leader State Representative J. Todd Rutherford (D) said that a protester who took down the Confederate flag at the South Carolina statehouse “became a hero to many people because so many of us wanted to go
John Schneider, the actor behind Bo Duke on The Dukes of Hazzard, is speaking out after TV Land announced Wednesday it had pulled his former show from its lineup.
A new poll commissioned by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) shows anti-Semitism in France is in dramatic decline, also dropping in Germany and Belgium, but the news is not universally good. The same poll showed that more than half of all Muslims in Western Europe
On Thursday’s broadcast of “Fox & Friends” on the Fox News Channel, former Rep. Ben Jones (D-GA), who also played the character “Cooter” on the hit TV series “The Dukes of Hazzard” decades ago, questioned the wisdom of TVLand and
When Jacky Alcine looked at his Google Photos app recently, he was appalled by what he saw. The facial recognition software had tagged pictures of him and a friend, both of them African-Americans, with the word “Gorillas.”
As debate rages in South Carolina over the Confederate flag on its statehouse property, a majority of Americans see the rebel flag as a symbol of Southern pride, not a reminder of racism, according to a new CNN/ORC poll out Thursday.
ESPN sportswriter Mike Wise responded to South Carolina State Sen. Paul Thurmond (R), son of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-SC), calling for the removal of the Confederate flag. Wise proposed that if a symbol makes someone feel worse than it
Former South Carolina State Representative Bakari Sellers commented on ESPN Radio’s podcast “Capital Games” about the Confederate flag debate in South Carolina. The Confederate flag has been the subject of protests since the fatal shooting of nine people at a black church
In an appearance on Birmingham, AL WAPI’s Matt Murphy Show last week, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) reacted to the controversy surrounding the Confederate flag and its place in public forums. Sessions was asked in particular to react to Gov. Robert
It’s terrible that by mere accident of birth, some people are afforded benefits and opportunities that are denied to others.
