Dylann Roof admits he did it, two law enforcement officials said — shooting and killing nine people he’d sat with for Bible study at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina.
On Thursday, 2016 Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton blamed the Charleston, South Carolina church shootings by racist Dylann Roof on the rhetoric of 2016 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
On Friday evening, July 2, 1999, a crazed young man drove through my Chicago neighborhood looking for Jews to kill. He had already shot half a dozen in a neighboring area (all of whom survived). He saw a black man walking with his family and decided that was good enough. He shot him–and Ricky Byrdsong, former Northwestern University basketball coach, died. The killer led an interstate manhunt, during which he killed a Korean man and attacked a church before shooting himself.
On his Thursday “The O’Reilly Factor” program, host Bill O’Reilly took on South Carolina state Rep. Todd Rutherford (D-Columbia), who also serves as his House’s minority leader, for his comments earlier in the day broadcasted on CNN blaming the Fox News Channel
On his Thursday broadcast, host Bill O’Reilly reacted to Wednesday night’s mass killing at the Emanuel AME church in Charleston, SC that resulted in the deaths of nine people, in what he called “a bad day for America.” O’Reilly declared the
From The Atlantic: Last night, Dylann Roof walked into a Charleston church, sat for an hour, and then killed nine people. Roof’s crime cannot be divorced from the ideology of white supremacy which long animated his state nor from its
On Thursday’s “Olbermann” on ESPN2, host Keith Olbermann opened his show with a monologue speaking about former Spokane NAACP head Rachel Dolezal, deceased American sports executive and the first woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame Effa Manley, who was
Thursday while reporting on the tragic aftermath of the mass shooting live from outside the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston Don Lemon was yelled at by a Africa-American woman upset with the coverage. Right before Lemon is in introduced you
On Thursday, the Los Angeles Times took a swipe at Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, claiming that his exit to Washington D.C. on a trip largely revolving around a fund-raiser just as the Police Commission meeting was considering the police shooting
President Barack Obama reacted to Wednesday’s horrific massacre at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina by calling for gun control and criticizing the United States for the frequency of mass shooting events. “We don’t have all the facts, but we do know that, once again, innocent people were killed in part because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting their hands on a gun,” Obama said, adding: “At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries.”
Game developer Eidos Montréal finds itself the target of faux outrage for incorporating an analogy of social oppression into its new game Deus Ex: Mankind Divided via the term “mechanical apartheid.” The victims of this system make up 10% of the population and are people who have had robotic implants.
In an appearance on CNN’s “New Day” on Thursday, Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC), the congressman who represents Charleston, SC, reacted to last night’s mass shooting at the Charleston’s historic Emanuel AME Church that resulted in nine dead. Sanford said it was uncharacteristic
Columbia University linguistics Professor John McWhorter declared that Rachel Dolezal “converted to blackness for the victimhood” on Wednesday’s “NOW with Alex Wagner” on MSNBC. McWhorter denied that there is a similarity between Dolezal and Caitlyn Jenner because “We’re not talking
On his Wednesday radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh observed the latest controversy surrounding Rachel Dolezal and her claim that she is black is evidence that things are “backwards” and the culture is “insane.” Limbaugh referenced a University of Pennsylvania
A white Sacramento high school English teacher is refusing to teach Shakespeare to her minority students because she does not believe American teenagers should be subjected to reading classic literary works by a dead white man.
On NBC News’ Today show, newfound media star Rachel Dolezal, the former local NAACP leader who claims she is black despite her Caucasian ancestry, said she found inspiration in the story of Bruce Jenner’s transition to womanhood.
Last December, the biblically inspired Christian Bale film Exodus: Gods and Kings opened to boycotts for using white actors to play North African and Hebrew characters.
Former Spokane NAACP head Rachel Dolezal said that Bruce Jenner’s Vanity Fair story “resonated” with her in some ways on Wednesday’s “Today” on NBC.
Former Spokane NAACP Head Rachel Dolezal said her critics “don’t know what I’ve actually walked through, and how hard it is” in an interview with Melissa Harris-Perry broadcast on Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes.” Dolezal said
UPDATE: On “All In with Chris Hayes” on Tuesday, Harris-Perry conceded that it is a possibility that Dolezal could be a con artist. MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry declared that she didn’t get a “sense of” “malice, deception, or self-gain” on
Monday on ABC’s “The View,” Whoopi Goldberg defended Rachel Dolezal, the former head of the NAACP chapter in Spokane, who was living as an African-American woman for the last few years. “She wants to be a black woman?” Goldberg said.
On a sunny day, in lower Manhattan, we heard the cries of a man who appeared in anguish.
CNN “Legal View” host Ashleigh Banfield said that “because I’m white,” she couldn’t say if former Spokane NAACP head Rachel Dolezal pretending to be black is offensive on Monday. Banfield asked, “Is there some kind of an offense or is
On Monday’s broadcast of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA), the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, discussed his annual summit that took place in Salt Lake City over the weekend that included a number of the 2016 Republican
Hundreds of #BlackLivesMatter demonstrators marched through the streets of Oakland on Friday, and a dozen people locked arms and chained themselves together in the middle of a busy intersection, to voice their unrest over the shooting death of Demouria Hogg, 30, last week.
