Actress Kerry Washington’s new InStyle cover is receiving a backlash from critics, who say the fashion magazine intentionally edited her image in order to make her appear more “white.”
Several books assigned in Wake County, N.C. are coming under fire because they’re too adult for young readers.
On February 5, a teacher at Maryland’s Tuscarora High School was assaulted and “taken to a local hospital for treatment.” Exactly one week prior, on January 29, a teacher at Maryland’s Forestville High School was beaten then “treated in [a] hospital for minor injuries.”
Dartmouth College’s geography and African and African-American studies programs are offering a new course during the spring term titled “10 Weeks, 10 Professors: #BlackLivesMatter.”
Rapper Azealia Banks took to Twitter Monday to explain an Instagram photo in which she appeared in “whiteface.” However, in the process of clarifying the intent of the image, she referred to white people as “crackers,” and also referenced the N-word.
While detectives investigate spray-painted swastikas on a University of California, Davis off-campus Jewish fraternity house as a hate crime, a Muslim civil liberties group has come out in solidarity with the Jewish community.
Parishioners praying Sunday Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday were confronted by one dozen demonstrators protesting the Pope’s decision to canonize Father Junipero Serra.
In an interviewed that aired on “CNN Tonight” on Thursday, actor Kevin Costner discussed race in Hollywood, particularly in the wake of the Oscar snub of “Selma.” Partial transcript as follows: LEMON: And you have said any time someone wants
In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday’s “AC360,” New York Times op-ed columnist Charles Blow refused to back off allegations of racism involved in his son’s arrest at gunpoint by Yale campus police earlier this week. Blow levied
MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews said that “I don’t see how anybody who’s African-American would think about voting Republican as long as Reince Priebus is running the show” due to the GOP’s support for voter ID laws on Wednesday. “They’re
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) has raised serious concerns over the use of the real-time traffic and tracking application Waze, saying it jeopardizes the lives of police officers by revealing their locations.
Last week’s MLK, Jr. Day and #BlackLivesMatter protest, where dozens of Stanford University students shut down California’s San Mateo-Hayward Bridge and draped a huge Palestinian flag across the freeway, was anything but peaceful.
A leading pro-European group has claimed the rise in anti-Semitism is linked to anti-EU feeling. ‘British Influence’ published the article by their Director of External Affairs, Rachel Franklin, today to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auchwitz.
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has used his appearance on BBC Radio4’s Thought of the Day to call for an end to the tolerance of violence and extremism. He also warned of the growth in anti-Semetic attacks in the country over
Oscar-nominated British actor Benedict Cumberbatch is apologizing for a verbal misstep, in which he referred to non-white actors as “colored.”
New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow is “fuming” over the fact that his black son was stopped and questioned by police on Saturday as they searched for a black robbery suspect.
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) said that President Obama “shouldn’t be taking any side” on “local issues” of racial bias in law enforcement on Friday’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on the Fox News Channel. Responding to comments the
In an appearance on Thursday’s “Fox & Friends” broadcast, Milwaukee Co., WI Sheriff David Clarke reacted to the Department of Justice’s decision not to pursue charges against Ferguson, MO Police Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of Michael Brown. When
Police in St. Louis County have released a video to the public featuring hundreds of looters who destroyed shops during the riots in Ferguson, Missouri, in hopes that some can be identified.
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) is once again joining the ranks of the Al Sharptons of the world by fueling more racial division. He sent out an email this past week that blamed the criminal justice system for prosecuting black Americans.
This Friday, the Oxford Union in London will hold a debate about race relations in the United States. MSNBC host Al Sharpton accepted an invitation to the event, but after confirming he would be one of the participants to propose the motion that the United States is “institutionally racist,” he did an about face, shocking his esteemed hosts.
The Department of Justice will recommend that Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson not be charged with any federal civil rights violation in the shooting of black teenager Michael Brown.
Wednesday on the “Tom Joyner Radio Show,” sometime Obama adviser and MSNBC host Al Sharpton gave a simple, honest breakdown of President Obama’s plan to redistribute wealth through the tax code. Sharpton said, “Most important, he said ‘I’m going to
The Santa Ann Police department reports that on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 40 homes received plastic bags containing fliers calling King a “communist pervert” and business cards listing contact information for the KKK’s hotline and Web address. The bags also contained a rock and some candy.
Dozens of self-identifying Stanford students were arrested on Monday night after they shut down the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge in a “#blacklivesmatter” protest against alleged police brutality and oppression. After they closed off the bridge, the protesters pulled out a giant Palestinian flag and draped it across multiple lanes.
