Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson stated that “the Black Lives Matter movement is airing a point of view that deserves to be heard” in an interview with USA Today‘s Capital Download released on Monday. Johnson said [relevant exchange begins around
The Wrap reports that Hollywood insiders are concerned about the backlash brewing against the anti-police hate speech spewed by “Hateful Eight” director Quentin Tarantino in Manhattan over the weekend. On both coasts, the Los Angeles Police Department and New York
The New York City Police Department has already called for a boycott of “The Hateful Eight,” the online energy in favor of the boycott continues to intensify on social media, and now the boycott has spread to Los Angeles. The
Following three hours of heated and emotionally-charged public discussion at the University of Southern California on Tuesday evening, student Senators ultimately decided to postpone the vote on a controversial campus resolution urging $100 million be spent on mandatory diversity classes and to create an “inclusion climate” on campus.
Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” host Chris Matthews and guests Jonathan Capehart of The Washington Post, Michelle Bernard of The Bernard Center and Liz Mair, a Republican strategist, went after Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Mike Huckabee for
Tuesday in Chicago at the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s annual conference, President Barack Obama said problems of racial injustice “have been running themes throughout this country’s history in every institution.” Obama said “There were times when I was
Despite a lack of national cohesion or a central organizing committee, some involved in the Black Lives Matter movement are attempting to launch a political action committee (PAC) to push their agenda in Washington and in state legislatures.
Tuesday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” host of “The Savage Nation” radio talk show and author of “Government Zero” Michael Savage declared Black Lives Matter movement activists to be President Barack Obama’s shock troops, like Hitler’s Brown Shirts. Host Malzberg asked,
On the same day Torii Hunter retired, prompting a tweet from former teammate LaTroy Hawkins about the paucity of blacks in major league baseball, Commissioner Rob Manfred spoke of increasing black representation in MLB’s bureaucracy.
On Saturday a conservative guest appeared on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry show and tried to say something nice about Paul Ryan. Naturally, he was called out seconds later for failing to consider a picture in Harris-Perry’s office and some other important thoughts she came up with to attack Republicans.
In an appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” on Monday, Milwaukee Co., WI Sheriff David Clarke sounded of on a wave of protests throughout the country aimed at police for alleged police brutality led by the Black Lives
On Monday, University of Mississippi Police Department officers took down the state flag, yielding to those who argued that the standard’s Confederate battle flag in one corner made it unfit to display. The flag was furled and saved in the university’s archives.
Many of the attacks on churches have been religiously or racially motivated, the Center notes, such as a string of arson attacks at six predominantly black churches in the Saint Louis area this month, although federal law enforcement agencies have ruled these fires to be unrelated and police are as yet unwilling to say whether the attacks are racially driven. Acts of arson are also significantly more common in churches than in other structures, and in recent years only 5-10% of residential and non-residential fires were intentionally set, as compared to the 51% of church fires that were deemed acts of arson.
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Republican presidential candidate Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) said President Barack Obama “encourages lawlessness” by supporting Black Lives Matter and sanctuary cities. When asked about the increase in crime in America Christie said, “The problem
The city of Oakland has hired the director of Portland’s Office of Equity and Human Rights to head a new equity department in Oakland, the East Bay Citizen reports.
Director Quentin Tarantino joined hundreds of demonstrators in a a march against police brutality on Saturday in Washington Square Park in New York.
Mackie said “Republicans have been trying to capture the vote and rework the delegation of voting rights since Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act in 1965.”
On Saturday’s broadcast of “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC, executive director of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles Alfonso Aguilar referred to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), a candidate for House Speaker, as a “hard worker.” Host Melissa Harris-Perry interjected Aguilar to say
Here in the bloodbath known as Chicago, it certainly doesn’t help matters when someone like the politically-connected and local media darling Father Michael Pfleger accuses the police of genocide.
During Friday’s broadcast of “First Take” on ESPN2, co-hosts Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless were talking about the Washington Redskins quarterback situation. Former first-rounder and Rookie of the Year Robert Griffin III has yet to take a snap in
Friday on Fox News Channel’s “Outnumbered,” Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) declared that while he recognizes the plight African-Americans, he isn’t a fan of the so-called Black Lives Matter movement. Paul said, “College should be the absolute place, people
After initially suspending a senior on the high school football team for what it perceived to be a racist remark, the Bloomfield Hills school district reversed its decision after roughly 2,000 people launched a petition to see him reinstated.
A Tennessee woman visiting her grandmother in the hospital was recently asked to take down the Confederate flags from her car. Thursday, President of Saint Thomas West Hospital in Nashville, TN requested repeatedly for Chaneine McBath to remove the two
A statue of founding father and writer of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson is sparking debate at the University of Missouri, with some students demanding that the statue be removed over Jefferson’s “offensive” history as a slave owner.
After participating in a rally to defend the University of Missouri’s statue of Thomas Jefferson from liberal vandalism, student Jasmine Wells was smeared as an “Uncle Tom” for supporting the Founding Father.
