On Thursday’s “Olbermann” on ESPN2, host Keith Olbermann opened his show with a monologue speaking about former Spokane NAACP head Rachel Dolezal, deceased American sports executive and the first woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame Effa Manley, who was
In an op-ed for Time magazine, former NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar threw his support behind embattled former NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal, who was outed by her parents as white last week after representing herself as African-American for years.
On a sunny day, in lower Manhattan, we heard the cries of a man who appeared in anguish.
Monday at Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH, first lady Michelle Obama took great pride in the “change these past six years” of her husband’s administration when speaking to graduating students. “Think about how just 10 years ago gay marriage was legal in
Monday at the Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center in Camden, NJ, President Barack Obama commented on community policing and said we as a society must deal honestly with issues of race. “One of the things I also want to
“Kids start going to private schools, kids start working out at private clubs instead of the public parks, an anti-government ideology then disinvests from those common goods and those things that draw us together,” President Obama said at Georgetown University. His daughters attend Sidwell Friends, an expensive private school.
“I’ll have those niggers voting Democrat for two-hundred years.” — President Lyndon Johnson. The Democrat Party has always been about oppressing blacks as a way to retain political power. After their defense of slavery failed at the hands of Republican
Prominent historian and TV presenter Dr David Starkey says that too many minority groups play the victim card. “I find it very, very sad that there is now this perpetual procession of people – group after group – wanting to
On Sunday’s “Meet the Press” on NBC, new Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred sat down with host Chuck Todd and was asked about the diversification of Major League Baseball and how the number of African Americans is dwindling in
Left-wing New York Times columnist Charles Blow suffered another major credibility blow this week when his hit-piece on Louisiana Republican Governor Bobby Jindal resulted in no fewer than three major corrections: Charles M. Blow’s column on Monday misstated the origin
Apparently it is again okay to use the pejorative “uppity” against Americans who are members of a racial minority group. Ted Cruz is a historic Senator and presidential candidate, the first Cuban-American to join either club, and for that reason
Parents and students from Revere Charter Middle School and Magnet Center in Los Angeles have launched a petition to restore a teacher to his job after the 29-year-veteran was suspended by the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) for allegedly using racial terms in class. The petition had neared 800 signatures by Monday morning.In addition, the students held a rally on Monday at the school.
Some Democrats are desperately searching for an alternative to Hillary Clinton, who still leads the polls but has drawn little enthusiasm from the media and the party’s “progressive activists.” Dennis Lennox, an opinion columnist for the Central Michigan Morning Sun, says that California Gov. Jerry Brown is the party’s ultimate fallback option–except for the fact that he is “bald, old (76), and white.” Lennox notes that the Republican candidates are younger and more diverse.
This was a few years ago when my wife and I were still living in Los Angeles. I was at church. This had been our beloved church for years, and one morning during regular Sunday service I was startled to
After taking heavy criticism for directing employees to begin hectoring customers about racism, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz defended his “Race Together” program, saying “we must do more” to discuss racism in America.
NASHVILLE, TN – On Tuesday, ESPN regular Stephen A. Smith spoke at the Impact Symposium at Vanderbilt University on the topic of “How You See It: Perceptions of (In)Equality.” Smith believes that every black person in America should vote Republican
On Thursday’s ESPN podcast of “Real Talk with Jason Whitlock,” host Jason Whitlock expounded more on an article he penned posted on ESPN.com in response to the racist Oklahoma fraternity video that surfaced earlier this week. According to Whitlock, the
There will never be a nigger SAE. There will never be a nigger SAE . You can hang him from a tree, but he will never sign with me. There will never be a nigger SAE. According to two of
Colin Cowherd, host of ESPNU’s “The Herd,” spoke Thursday about Kentucky men’s basketball coach John Calipari and his history of bringing in the top high school talent with the idea that they can enter the NBA Draft after only one
Over the last few months Breitbart News has analyzed the performance of director Ana DuVernay’s “Selma,” both at the box office and in the Awards Derby, through the lens of an America completely exhausted by nearly three years of unrelenting,
On Thursday, FBI Director James Comey spoke at Georgetown University and told students that police should avoid “lazy mental short-cuts” that could induce them to think differently of minorities.
On Wednesday, the Jackie Robinson West Little League team from Chicago, the first all-black team to win the U.S. Championship, was stripped of its title after Little League Baseball determined that the team had used players from outside its geographic area.
David Oyelowo, the actor who portrayed Martin Luther King Jr. in the historical film “Selma,” blasted the Motion Picture Academy Sunday for awarding black actors with Oscars “more for when we are subservient, when we are not being leaders or
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
Charles Blow, a black, left-wing New York Times columnist, took to Twitter and the pages of the Times to excoriate Yale and a campus police officer over his son being detained at gunpoint. Apparently, Blow’s son met the description of
