
Twitter Hires White Man as New Head of Diversity
Twitter has hired former Apple executive Jeffery Siminoff, a white male, as vice president of diversity and inclusion, the company announced Monday.

Twitter has hired former Apple executive Jeffery Siminoff, a white male, as vice president of diversity and inclusion, the company announced Monday.

Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel is facing growing calls for his resignation a full two weeks after the city released the shocking police dashcam video of a city police officer shooting an African-American teen to death.

The death of Michael Brown brought the birth of “Hands up, don’t shoot,” the media-fuelled fallacy and force behind a Black Lives Matter movement that flat-out ignores the main driver of Black America’s morass.

Chicago news headline after headline detailed the carnage that has consumed dozens of communities in that city where black men kill each other with terrifying regularity.
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) criticized Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Chicago protests as “exploitation of situation” on Friday’s “Varney & Co” on the Fox Business Network. Clarke stated that the rally in Chicago headed by Jackson “highlights, I believe, the

A third day of protests descended upon Chicago’s busy downtown Michigan Avenue shopping district, shutting down some stores as protesters barricaded doors arm-in-arm to prevent shoppers from entering or leaving stores on Chicago’s famed “Magnificent Mile.”

Friday on the Fox Business Channel, Rainbow Coalition PUSH founder Jesse Jackson said he is protesting Black Friday in downtown Chicago’s shopping district dubbed the Magnificent Mile in order to bring attention to the killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald and

Roughly 3,000 demonstrators have shut down a large portion of Michigan Avenue in Chicago–the “Magnificent Mile”–in the middle of Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year, to protest the shooting of black teenager Laquon McDonald.

Demonstrators in Chicago say they will march down the city’s Magnificent Mile to disrupt Black Friday shopping in order to bring attention to the killing of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. After Officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with first degree murder,

On Thursday thousands of Chicago residents had their Thanksgiving interrupted by a robocall featuring the voice of Jesse Jackson, Sr. and sponsored by the Chicago Teachers Union urging Chicagoans to join them in disrupting the Windy City’s Black Friday shopping day downtown.

Friday, hundreds of students–both black and white–at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina walked out of class in support of Ben Fields, the Richland County sheriff’s deputy shown in a viral video forcefully removing a noncompliant student Monday.

Videos of a white deputy roughly pulling a non-compliant black high school student out of her chair and then dragging her on the floor went viral Monday night, just hours after the incident occurred at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina. Over half of Spring Valley High’s students are black.

A report by the Chicago Sun-Times reveals that the Chicago Police Department started a special program to monitor local African-American groups after the death of Michael Brown and the ensuing riots in Ferguson, Missouri, last year.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson’s daughter Ashley may be a budding rapper now, but her father is nixing any mention of the “n-word” from his daughter’s songs.

Controversial civil rights activist and anti-gun campaigner Reverend Jesse Jackson visited fugitive Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in London yesterday. Although it is not known what precisely was discussed, when Jackson left the building he told reporters: “800 years after the Magna

This followed the sacking of Victoria Taylor, a popular site admin, after a Reddit Q&A with the Rev. Jesse Jackson went badly for the activist preacher.

Friday in Charleston, on “Democracy Now!” outside the Emanuel AME Church, Rev. Jesse Jackson said, “I am not impressed with the “kumbaya” moment unless there is some plan for financial investment and a budget alteration. If the flag comes down,

The National Action Network (NAN)—Al Sharpton’s civil rights group that has close ties to the Obama administration—has called on the New Black Panther Party to get out of Charleston, South Carolina. Local NAN leaders held a press conference Wednesday night in Marion Square, where the Panther rally had been held the night before and said they “will not allow hate” in the wake of the slaughter of nine black churchgoers, allegedly at the hands of a white racist.

On June 6, Reverend Michael Pfleger listed recent shootings in heavily gun-controlled Chicago then said the NRA “will pay pay for the murder of our children.”

On Friday’s broadcast of “Risk & Reward with Deirdre Bolton” on the Fox Business Network, Rainbow PUSH Coalition president Jesse Jackson spoke about the need for Silicon Valley to look within the United States, particularly the African-American community, and not

On Saturday, Jesse Jackson rallied outside Chuck’s Gun Shop in Riverdale, Illinois, against AK-47s, saying, “More guns make us less secure.”

Tufts University History professor Peniel Joseph declared that President Obama “has a lot of soul-searching to do” because he won’t allow Jesse Jackson into the White House on Thurday’s “HuffPost Live.” Joseph began by talking about Erin Burnett’s interview with Baltimore

Tuesday on “Democracy Now!” activist Jesse Jackson discussed the rioting in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody. He said the conditions of poverty caused by “bankers who engaged in subprime and predatory lending and took people’s

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is fighting for his political life in the city’s first ever mayoral runoff election, and now a staffer for challenger Jesus “Chuy” Garcia is revealing that their internal polling is showing there is “no way” Rahm can win re-election.

The five-week-long and very salacious trail against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers for alleged sexual discrimination against Ellen Pao went to the jury Wednesday. The former junior partner is demanding $16 million for sexual discrimination and up to $144 million for punitive damages. Her suit has paved the way for a coming tsunami of diversity litigation across Silicon Valley.