The Steve Scalise controversy had a fairly simple resolution. When the accusation had emerged that he had spoken in 2002 to a white supremacist group associated with former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke, he ought to have stepped aside temporarily and asked the House Republican leadership to conduct a full investigation. That would have confirmed that Republicans would not permit anyone to lead the party who kept such associations, and without punishing Scalise before the facts were known.
by Joel B. Pollak1 Jan 2015, 10:26 AM PST0
Cold weather and irrepressible holiday cheer kept “Black Lives Matter” protests small at New Year’s Eve celebrations across campus on Wednesday evening. Organizers across California contented themselves with the fact that they had staged demonstrations at all. (Photo: @Cassandra / Twitter)
by Joel B. Pollak1 Jan 2015, 4:39 AM PST0
As more and more racially-motivated attacks against police and private citizens are occurring as a result of the recent and unfortunate deaths of two black men at the hands of police, the blame for all of this racial division needs to be squarely placed on the laps of President Obama and race-baiters like Rev. Al Sharpton.
by Javier Manjarres31 Dec 2014, 6:32 PM PST0
Protesters plan to ring in the New Year in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Pasadena, California as #BlackLivesMatter and Occupy movement activists have laid out a busy night, as well as demonstrations on New Years’ Day at Pasadena’s annual Tournament of Roses parade.
by Michelle Moons31 Dec 2014, 5:36 PM PST0
On this week’s episode of the official broadcast of the New Black Panthers Party’s “Black Power Radio,” the former national chairman of the New Black Panther Party and current national president of Black Lawyers for Justice, Malik Zulu Shabazz said
by Pam Key31 Dec 2014, 3:09 PM PST0
WABC in New York City reported that another banner criticizing Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) was seen flying over the Hudson River on Wednesday. This time the banner declared “de Blasio, apologize to the NYPD.” According to the station, the plane
by Ian Hanchett31 Dec 2014, 1:57 PM PST0
The New York Times couldn’t be any more clear on where it stands with regard to the deteriorating relationship between New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and the NYPD. They don’t appear to take issue with a single thing de Blasio has said or done during the controversy. The NYPD, on the other hand, can’t seem to do anything right, according to the Times.
by Dan Riehl31 Dec 2014, 1:46 PM PST0
New Year’s Eve protests began early in St. Louis as protesters rushed the doors of the 1915 Olive St Police Headquarters in Missouri with chants of, “We say fight back.”
by Michelle Moons31 Dec 2014, 10:30 AM PST0
Representative Peter King (R-NY) argued that “think the less that al sharpton has to say…the better everyone would be.” on Wednesday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC. “Quite frankly, I know I’m on MSNBC. I think the less that Al Sharpton
by Ian Hanchett31 Dec 2014, 10:16 AM PST0
Target’s ads and in-store displays featuring the movie “Annie” are in the center of a controversy because some feature a white model as Annie instead of an black model similar to Quvenzhané Wallis, the actress who plays the character in the 2014 remake released
by Breitbart TV31 Dec 2014, 7:47 AM PST0
Swastikas were daubed on cars and buildings across a Jewish Community in North London on Sunday night, leaving residents “shocked and fearful”. Twenty-seven cars were targeted, and the mark was even found on the walls of a primary school. The
by Donna Rachel Edmunds31 Dec 2014, 5:48 AM PST0
Nationally syndicated conservative radio host Mark Levin, a former official in President Ronald Reagan’s administration, is calling on former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to answer whether he stands with House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, and Majority Whip Steve Scalise in the wake of a blistering Scalise scandal concerning his longtime ties to a top aide to former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke.
by Matthew Boyle30 Dec 2014, 7:50 PM PST0
Los Angeles, California–Monday responding to the Ezell Ford autopsy report, the Ford family attorney said that the officers involved in the fatal shooting of the black 25-year-old were “animalistic” during the altercation.
by Robert Wilde30 Dec 2014, 5:44 PM PST0
While it remains unclear if any arrests were ever made in a Monroeville, PA mall melee that saw a group of up to a thousand young female black teens break into a near riot, malls nationwide now appear to be ramping up security and even going so far as to monitor social media to prevent another incident of the same type.
by Dan Riehl30 Dec 2014, 5:07 PM PST0
Grammy-winning rapper Macklemore spoke at length about race in America and white privilege in a wide-ranging interview on the Hot 97 radio station Monday morning.
by Daniel Nussbaum30 Dec 2014, 3:28 PM PST0
Winston Churchill famously said “history is written by the victors,” and truth is often the first casualty in the aftermath of conflict. Last week, “historian” Mark Updegrove, who doubles as a paid employee of the taxpayer-financed Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential
by Roger Stone and Phillip Nelson30 Dec 2014, 9:33 AM PST0
Tensions have been flaring in the Austrian capital over the Christmas period as disparate communities clash over religious differences, with religious icons and building vandalised, and pigs entrails being smeared over a mosque in the north of the city. The
by Oliver Lane30 Dec 2014, 6:47 AM PST0
The autopsy report for Ezell Ford was released by the Los Angeles Police department on Monday and, according Police Chief Charlie Beck, corroborates the accounts given by LAPD officers Sharlton Wampler and Antonio Villages.
by Robert Wilde29 Dec 2014, 7:01 PM PST0
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio may not have thought he was going to get a terribly warm reception at Monday’s NYPD graduation ceremony of incoming rookies, but he probably was not expecting to get booed and heckled during his remarks to the graduating class.
by Kerry Picket29 Dec 2014, 5:04 PM PST0
In a brawl apparently instigated using social media, a thousand or more young teen black girls descended on Monroeville Mall outside Pittsburgh Friday night, resulting in the mall being closed as a massive brawl broke out.
by Dan Riehl29 Dec 2014, 4:31 PM PST0
On Monday’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on the Fox News Channel, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) said that rhetoric from President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio created a “pathway” for
by Ian Hanchett29 Dec 2014, 3:18 PM PST0
Paragraph after paragraph of Walsh’s latest at Salon asks: what’s the matter with white people?—except for Joan Walsh, of course.
by Dan Riehl29 Dec 2014, 1:14 PM PST0
KSDK reported that a Sunday protest at the St. Louis Galleria in Richmond Heights, MO resulted in damage to the inside of a store after two protesters over the grand jury decision in Ferguson ignored police orders to disperse and damaged
by Ian Hanchett29 Dec 2014, 12:06 PM PST0
Only two days after Michael Brown was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, another black man was fatally shot in Los Angeles by police officers. Still more than four months after the August 11 shooting occurred, the autopsy report has not been released.
by Robert Wilde29 Dec 2014, 8:10 AM PST0
Dozens of demonstrators gathered outside the Los Angeles Police Department on Sunday to stage an “All Lives Matter” rally in support of police, who have come under increasing criticism from the “Black Lives Matter” movement in Los Angeles and around the country. A small “Black Lives Matter” counter-demonstration gathered opposite.
by Joel B. Pollak29 Dec 2014, 4:47 AM PST0
