In her continued push to promote her new album Rebel Heart, Madonna told Out magazine that women are more marginalized than any other group of people, because living as a woman means “you’re either a virgin or a whore.”
During Tuesday’s “His & Hers,” co-host and ESPN regular Michael Smith reacted to Oklahoma University’s football team losing a recruit because of the video of an Oklahoma fraternity participating in a racist chant. Smith said that unless he lived there
On Tuesday’s “The Herd” on ESPNU, host Colin Cowherd responded to Stephen A. Smith’s suggestion on Monday that the Philadelphia Eagles were making moves that were racially charged. Cowherd stated that he believes that these moves are not racially charged,
J Street, a left-wing organization that was founded by liberal Jews to counter traditional pro-Israel advocacy in Congress, has crossed the line into hate group status with its invitation to Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat to address its conference later this month.
A federal judge formally accused of racism by the NAACP and other left-wing groups has been completely exonerated after a yearlong investigation conducted by the Judicial Council of the Washington D.C. Circuit.
In 1993, Rudy Giuliani defeated incumbent Mayor David Dinkins on a tough crime-fighting and welfare-to-work platform. The life-long New York intellectual Norman Podhoretz, reflecting on this moment in 1999, wrote that “neither I nor anyone else ever dreamed that the new mayor — or any other person occupying that office — would be able to turn the city around, let alone that he would do so almost overnight. How wrong we were!”
On Monday’s “First Take” on ESPN2, host Stephen A. Smith was discussing the recent moves made by the Philadelphia Eagles where they allowed their best wide receiver Jeremy Maclin to hit free agency, cut longtime defensive standout Trent Cole and
Community leaders and lawmakers will join Sacramento’s Jewish community on Monday afternoon on the State Capitol’s steps to rally against antisemitism in California. The rally coincides with a proposed law that would require all student government bodies in California to provide and take part in mandatory training in discrimination and civil rights.
Attorney General Eric Holder’s remarks in Selma, AL, “echoed”—according to a report by The Hill—Obama’s comments on Saturday that “the march is not yet over.”
Actor Sean Penn unapologetically responded to questions about his Alejandro Iñárritu green card Oscars joke on Saturday in Beverly Hills, CA, and instead opted to blame a “xenophobic” country for the controversy.
Saturday demonstrators gathered at the Los Angeles Police Department headquarters and marched to skid row to protest the fatal shooting of a troubled homeless man killed during a tussle with police officers.
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” former George W. Bush administration Secretary of State Colin Powell said the Republican Party still struggles with a “dark vein of intolerance,” when dealing with race issues. When Stephanopoulos asked, “How about your
The Bloody Sunday 50th anniversary commemoration continued Sunday with gatherings and other events in Selma before a group retraces the steps that helped secure equal voting rights 50 years ago.
After releasing a report that completely exonerated Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson of any wrongdoing in the death of an 18-year-old strong arm robbery suspect, Attorney General Eric Holder claimed that he was still “prepared” to dismantle the department, because racism was to blame for high rates of black violence and criminality.
Yolanda Pierce, Associate Professor of African American Religion and Literature, and Director of the Center for Black Church Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary (which is not affiliated with Princeton University) said that Officer Darren Wilson should be fired on Saturday’s
Former White House Special Advisor for Green Jobs and CNN Political Commentator Van Jones said that it wasn’t “provable” that Michael Brown had his hands up and that “the facts don’t bear out what many people feared” in the case,
Friday on Sirius XM’s “Urban View” with Joe Madison, President Barack Obama said deporting Dreamers, illegal immigrants who came to the United States before they turned 18, would violate the “spirit,” of Selma. The president said, “The notion that some
The undergraduate governing body at the University of California, Irvine, voted this week to remove the American flag and all other flags from its lobby, after arguing in part that flags are “symbols of patriotism or weapons of nationalism.”
Friday on Sirius XM’s “Urban View” with Joe Madison, in reacting to the news that the Justice Department found that the Ferguson, MO Police Department routinely violated the rights of African-Americans, President Barack Obama said the behavior of Ferguson police
Colin Cowherd, host of ESPNU’s “The Herd,” spoke Thursday about Kentucky men’s basketball coach John Calipari and his history of bringing in the top high school talent with the idea that they can enter the NBA Draft after only one
According to an 86-page report issued by the Department of Justice, six of the most credible witnesses to the shooting of Michael Brown were afraid to give testimony in support of Ferguson, MO, police officer Darren Wilson, because they knew it would undercut the “Hands up, don’t shoot” narrative being advanced by their neighbors and, eventually, by the media.
Actress Mo’Nique Hicks, who won an Academy Award in 2010 for her role in the film Precious and said in February she had been “blackballed” by the film industry, is now comparing her struggles with those of Martin Luther King Jr.
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) said that Attorney General Eric Holder is trying to “put Ferguson, Missouri up on his mantle as another law enforcement agency that he indicted for some sort of racial practices” in reaction reports that the DOJ
In an interview with The Daily Caller’s Ginni Thomas published on Sunday, Milwaukee Co., WI Sheriff David Clarke cautioned against making the likes of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown into civil rights figures, arguing doing so desecrates the legacy of
For President Barack Obama, it’s a week to invoke America’s civil rights struggles from past to present.
