While Americans are generally more satisfied with their quality of life ahead of the State of the Union his year than they were last year, Americans’ outlook on race relations have taken a nose dive, according to a new poll. A mere 30 percent of Americans polled expressed satisfaction with the state of race relations, down 25 percentage points from 2014, when 55 percent said they were satisfied.
One of the few pro-police rallies to take place in the midst of a plethora of anti-police protests throughout California was almost interrupted by counter-protesters in the state’s capital city of Sacramento on Sunday.
Monday on MSNBC’s “NOW with Alex Wagner,” senior editor at The Islamic Monthly, Arsalan Iftikhar, attacked the race of Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) because he discussed the controversy over Fox News Channel’s reports on “no-go zones.” Iftikhar said, “I think
When Martin Luther King said, “Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism,” he was talking about individuals rising up against the forces that had kept blacks down, not government intervention.
Monday at a breakfast celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Vice President Joe Biden said, “It is also the responsibility of every officer who takes on the oath to protect and serve, to respect the dignity of every person they
In the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, the moment when the momentum shifted decisively against Hillary Clinton was when the New York Senator embroiled herself in a controversy over whether President Lyndon Baines Johnson or Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. deserved
Activists carrying the torch for #BlackLivesMatter joined forces with nationwide #ReclaimMLK protests and called for the end of what they referred to as a racial division within the LGBT community, shutting down a major intersection in San Francisco’s Castro District on Saturday evening, arguably the district’s busiest night.
Friday in honor of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., protesters holding signs reading “Third World for Black Power” and “Global Resistance Against Police Violence,” chained themselves together and blocked the entrance to the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building in downtown Oakland.
NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” had Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. travel to the year 2015 as part of its intro. Dr. King, who had appeared to help a schoolboy with a paper on him, was briefed on, and reacted to
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Cheryl Boone Isaacs responded Friday to the controversy surrounding the Oscars’ failure to nominate any minorities in all four of its acting categories.
HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher proclaimed “Hollywood liberals are such hypocrites” in response to the controversy over the lack of diversity among Oscar nominees on Friday. In an interview with director Kathryn Bigelow, Maher asked whether there was real problem with
Thursday on MSNBC’s “Politics Nation,” host Al Sharpton claimed even though Selma was nominated for Best Picture, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ lack of diversity, citing the member voters are 93 percent white and 76 percent male,
Twenty-nine “BlackLivesMatter” protesters were arrested this morning outside Boston as they blocked a major commuter highway into the city during morning rush hour. On I-93, they put their hands inside 50-gallon drums filled with cement and then handcuffed themselves together.
A former Massachusetts prosecutor, who once secured a civil rights injunction against Mark Wahlberg, says the actor shouldn’t be pardoned for attacking two Asian men in his youth.
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 on Monday by condemning what he views as racial inequities in education in the United States.
On Monday, talk radio host and author of “The Liberty Amendments,” Mark Levin said that President Obama should have sent Al Sharpton to this weekend’s French unity rally. “For this administration, representing the heart and soul of this administration, and
California Governor Jerry Brown spoke for the first time Friday about the police brutality protests that have consumed the Bay Area and cities across the country in recent weeks.
HBO’s Bill Maher said that “someone needs to explain to me when did the NYPD start suffering from PMS” and told “New York’s whiniest” they “volunteered for it” on Friday. “Someone needs to explain to me when did the NYPD start
While suggesting that police were unfairly targeted as a problem in the broader discussion of race in America, “New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton confirmed there had been a work slowdown by officers in the weeks since two police officers were shot dead” but also defended his department.
If that doesn’t clear it up for you, let’s put it bluntly: White pride is always racism, always. Here’s why.
Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) writes in the Huffington Post that the Republican Party only represents white Christians because of the demographics of its members in the House of Representatives.
Selma director Ava DuVernay was speaking at a luncheon in New York on Tuesday when she was told her audience, “I’m not gonna argue history” in response to a question about her film’s version of events regarding former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s role in the civil rights movement.
Hip hop artist Common spoke to the Huffington Post Monday about his role in the film Selma, saying that Americans have made little progress in regards to race relations since the days of slavery and segregation.
Piers Morgan’s column in the Daily Mail defends New York Mayor Bill de Blasio for criticizing the police after the death of Eric Garner.
Former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik stated that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) could not mend fences with the NYPD unless Al Sharpton was kept out of city politics on Monday’s “Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel.
