Rapper Kanye West addressed last week’s racially motivated mass murder in Charleston, South Carolina during a guest performance at a concert in Atlanta on Saturday, and made one thing clear: he has no idea where Charleston is.
Monday at the White House press briefing when asked about President Barack Obama using the “N-word ” on a podcast, press secretary Josh Earnest said the president did not regret it. Earnest was asked, “I wonder if his use of
Monday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) reacted to the news that President Barack Obama used the “N-word” on a podcast,and said, “Ninety-five percent of the American people, if not 99 percent, would agree that what he said was
Monday on CNN’s “Newsroom with Carol Costello,” South Carolina Chapter of NAACP president Dr. Lonnie Randoph reacted to the news that President Barack Obama used the s0-called “N-word” on a podcast, and said he was “troubled by hearing that.” Randoph said, “I was a
(Offensive Language Warning) On the podcast “WTF with Marc Maron” recorded Friday and released today, President Barack Obama used the so-called “n-word” in an effort to make a point about racism. Obama said, “It is incontrovertible that race relations have
Obama used the word during a conversation about racism in America, in which he challenged the notion that just because it wasn’t polite to use the word in public, the nation no longer had to struggle with it.
An 83-year-old monument to the Confederate soldiers who came to the defense of Charleston during the Civil War was defaced by “Black Lives Matter” protesters sometime late on Saturday evening.
On Saturday, 2016 Democratic nominee hopeful Hillary Clinton spoke in a speech about race on the heels of the Charleston, SC shooting earlier in the week and said she wanted to change how blacks are viewed in America. Clinton stated as
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” national President and CEO of the NAACP Cornell William Brooks reacted to the fatal shooting of 9 parishioners inside Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC and said the Confederate flag is a symbol of the
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) discussed the fatal shooting of nine parishioners inside Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC and blamed the shooting on a “right-wing drift in the country” that has “gone too far.”
Three years before the Obama Administration cynically decided to remove Alexander Hamilton from the $10 bill and replace him with a woman, the Washington Post reported that Rachel Dolezal posted a video in which she ranted about the “older white
The times are a-changin’, even in the fictional world of superheroes.
Speaking in a panel on MSNBC’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” with Dr. Johnathan Metzl of Vanderbilt University, who said the Charleston shooting is a “wake-up call for white America,” associate professor of African-American Religion and Literature at Princeton Yolanda Pierce shared her
During Saturday’s episode of “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC, former South Carolina State Representative Bakari Sellers responded to President Barack Obama saying that the Confederate flag should be in a museum in response to pictures of the Charleston shooter Dylann Roof posing
Occidental College Politics Professor Caroline Heldman declared “we are a white supremacist society” on Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Ed Show.” “I think it’s a myth to think that racists are unusual. We are a white supremacist society. We are
On this weekend’s broadcast of “The McLaughlin Group,” conservative commentator Pat Buchanan said while there was a racial component to last week’s mass killing in Charleston, SC at the Emanuel AME Church, it more closely resembles incidents like Tucson, Columbine,
In his weekly segment with syndicated columnist Mark Shields, New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to the mass killing in Charleston, SC earlier in the week on Friday’s broadcast of PBS’s “NewsHour.” Brooks said the problem was about much
What is believed to be the manifesto of Dylann Storm Roof–who on Wednesday night committed mass-murder against members of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church–revealed that the 21-year-old held deeply racist, anti-American, anti-Semitic, and white supremacist views.
We have to stop hiding from the truth of race — that this country, and the state of South Carolina in particular, were created on the idea of white supremacy. We’ll never overcome that history unless we acknowledge it.
HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher wondered “isn’t denying racism itself a form of racism?” on Friday. Maher, who back in January said, “liberals hate bullying all right, but they’re not opposed to using it. When they casually throw out
Kelly Osbourne is taking heat for dressing up as former Spokane, WA, NAACP head Rachel Dolezal, who misrepresented herself as black for years, and posting an image of it on her Instagram page.
WARNING: OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE Friday, Ruptly TV caught up with the woman who heckled host Don Lemon during a live CNN broadcast Thursday, accusing President Barack Obama of being an Uncle Tom and all white people of being terrorists . While
New Yorker editor David Remnick has penned a column in which he suggests that President Barack Obama’s political opponents are to blame for the nine brutal murders at the AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina on Wednesday.
Among the nine innocents murdered at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston Carolina this past Wednesday was Pastor Clementa Pinckney. Reverend Pinckney is my cousin, and our parents lived just across the field growing up in Marion, South Carolina. Our families have remained very close over the years. I knew them before I knew the world. We were all molded from the same clay.
Friday on CNN’s “New Day,” when asked about the controversy of the two flags on the statehouse dome in Columbia, SC being lowered to half-staff to pay tribute to the nine people murdered in Charleston’s Emanuel AME church, but with
