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It has only been 9 days since President Obama left office and a new administration took over in his place. Since then, Trump has signed a number of executive orders including but not limited to: an order starting the process to create a wall on the US-Mexico border, an order seeking the “prompt repeal of the […]

During a January 6 episode of The Steve Harvey Show, the comedian found himself continuing a trope that’s long been a part of the comedy genre – emasculating Asian men. After commenting on a 2002 book entitled How to Date a White Woman: A Practical Guide for Asian Men, the veteran comedian and television host went off […]

A Dairy Queen in Zion, Ill. has been shut down after its owner went on a racist rant targeted at a black woman and her children. 

Just a couple of weeks after Denzel Washington threw down the gauntlet of controversial responses to #OscarsSoWhite and later made controversial comments on the topic of colorism, two more titans of black Hollywood have seemingly accepted the challenge to outdo him. 

Fort Worth Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald has seen the same video we all have of a police officer’s interaction with Jacqueline Craig after she called authorities because her neighbor allegedly choked her seven-year-old son for littering. He also watched the situation escalate on film as the officer forcibly arrested Craig and her two teenaged daughters after implying […]

San Francisco’s police department has been going through what could be generously referred to as a rough patch. It fell under harsh criticism in 2015 after Mario Woods was shot 2o times while holding a knife and continued into 2016 as it went through multiple police chiefs following the exposure of multiple scandals – one […]

Combining the stress of shopping during the holiday season with the newfound freedom of racism in the U.S. and you’ve got all you need for the latest accumulation of angry shoppers being caught on video in the middle of racist tirades. The latest features a woman in Louisville, Kentucky verbally attacking two Hispanic women who […]

This article was originally published on Water Cooler Convos and has been reposted with permission.   Last week, I painstakingly sat through an entire interview on The Daily Show between the show’s host Trevor Noah and conservative media darling and Glenn Beck acolyte Tomi Lahren. I wish I hadn’t. Then, a few days later, I watched […]

Lee Daniels, the director responsible for Precious, The Butler and Empire, has an outlook on race that’s somewhat surprising. 

There’s a common belief that academia is absent of the same racism that can be found in the rest of the world. That comes with the assumption that education is the antithesis of ignorance. But that’s still yet to be proven as the number of hate crimes in the United States has spiked in recent […]

Local politicians continue to think it’s okay to be publicly racist. Even when it comes to the First Lady. The director of a nonprofit and the mayor of a small town in  West Virginia have come under fire after a racist comment about First Lady Michelle Obama became public knowledge.

“How many times do we expect Black people to build our country?” asked Samantha Bee on the episode of Full Frontal following the presidential election. I have asked this question many times and while I appreciate these sorts of sentiments from “woke” White comedians on a national level, at this point I don’t know that […]