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A blues band claims their performance was cut short at a bar in Chicago because there were “too many black people” in the audience. The band performed at McNally’s Traditional Irish Pub in Beverly, and was told by Mike Cummings, who booked the band for the establishment they were done for the evening. 

When Jason Roberts, a white man, attempted to break into his car in broad daylight for an experiment, no one batted an eye. But video footage captured by the Simple Misfits creator shows just how much race and skin color matter when executing such a task. Roberts, along with his friend Quinton, recorded themselves attempting to […]

Multi-billion dollar computer software firm Microsoft has appointed its first African-American chairman in the history of the brand. John W. Thompson will replace the legendary Bill Gates as chairman. Thompson, a seasoned executive and former CEO of Symantec, will become just the second chairman in the company’s history. 

In this day and age, you would think that people wouldn’t make such a big deal about people of color. We shop, workout and do everything that the majority does. Common sense right? Not so much. In an essay published on XO Jane, Jen Caron a white woman, was so moved by the presence of […]

A West Virginia man is in police custody after shooting and killing his new neighbor and the man’s brother without warning as the two inspected their land. Rodney Bruce Black, 62, who is white, told police that he thought the two black men were breaking into a building he thought he owned. 

  The editor of a magazine that ran a controversial photo of a Russian socialite using a black woman as a chair prop has apologized for the picture. Garage editor Miroslava Duma, issued a statement about the image on her Instagram account. 

The use of undercover informants is a pretty common practice to nab hard criminals. What isn’t supposed to happen is the blatant framing of an innocent man. The latter is exactly what happened to Donald Andrews Jr. in March. He runs a smoke shop in Scotia, New York. 

A photograph of Russian socialite Dasha Zhukova has sparked international outrage with critics referring to the imagery as racist. The photo, accompanied by an interview of the heiress sitting on a chair, comprised of a cushion…and a bound black woman. 

An award-winning crossing guard in London’s job may be in jeopardy after being sent home for comments made towards a black man. Jon Seymour, who is black, has been working at Carlton Primary School in Kentish Town, north London for 20 years. He is under fire for likening a black member of the Camden Council’s […]

Newly released data shows that the performance gap between Chicago’s black and white students continues to widen. The performance gap is tied to socioeconomic income, with wealthier classmates outperforming poorer students.

A 23-year-old St. Louis woman who was badly beaten by her boyfriend blamed the act on 3 innocent black men. Police charged 25-year-old Justin Simms and his girlfriend Ashley DePew, 23, with filing false police reports. The two insisted that DePew was sucker-punched by a “random thug” outside the Trophy Room bar in south city.

Keisha Thomas remembers it like yesterday. It was June 1996, and 17 Ku Klux Klan members held a rally in Ann Arbor, Mich. Hundreds of locals arrived on the scene to protest the KKK’s presence as police protected the Klansman.