Revisionist history has probably never been so bold. Kellyanne Conway, President Trump’s adviser who’s now famous for coining the term “alternative facts,” has added to her legacy of outright lying to the public. While Trump has received massive backlash for his policies and executive orders, Conway attempted to defend his ban of Muslims from seven […]
On the first day of Black History Month, President Donald J. Trump delivered a “speech” that focused on the promises he made to Black communities and name-dropped a handful of Black historical figures such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Harriet Tubman, and Rosa Parks.Â
While details are still sparse, news is slowly being released about what exactly happened in a Delaware men’s prison where four Department of Corrections officers were held hostage and one was killed.Â
Charges against Jacqueline Craig, 46, and her daughter, Brea Hymond, 19, were dropped by Forth Worth police after body camera footage of their altercation with an officer leaked, according to Dallas News.
Most of us know the story. In 1955, Emmett Till was brutally beaten and killed while visiting family in Mississippi after a white woman named Carolyn Bryant claimed that he was “inappropriate” towards her – common lore is that he whistled at her. An all-white jury found the two accused men innocent, despite a mountain of […]
A former Versace employee is suing the company and has made the claim that it used secret codes to alert staff and security whenever Black customers entered the store. Christopher Sampiro, 23, worked at a Versace store in Pleasanton, California for two weeks before being fired.Â
We could all use some good news this holiday season especially when it comes to the young Nigerian women who were kidnapped and brutalized by Boko Haram in April 2014. In a bit of good news, a Black Austin, Texas-based philanthropist and investor is supporting 24 Chibok schoolgirls – 21 of whom escaped Boko Haram – […]
One the reasons so many of the historical acts of violence against Black people in the United States go unanswered is due to statutes of limitations and other legal barriers to achieving equal justice for these crimes. President Obama is addressing this problem just as he prepares to leave office in 2017.
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 […]
By: Chanda Hsu Prescod-Weinstein Someone was selling cigarettes illegally. The State didn’t need the money, but it did want to be in control of how everyday citizens made money. When the authorities showed up, the enforcers could have let the sale of contraband cigarettes go, but they didn’t. Instead, they used force and the cigarette […]
It’s time we have a serious conversation about what it means when white people offer disingenuous apologies to Black people they have harmed while expecting absolution and exoneration from those very same people. Last week, news broke that a 79-year-old Trump supporter named John Franklin McGraw, who was seen on video elbowing a young Black anti-Trump […]
As Donald Trump’s rallies got more popular, they appeared to get more violent as well. Things appeared to come to a head this past spring and early summer as his supporters got increasingly confrontational – sometimes, violent – when gathered into one space. At times, their passion resembled a rally of another sort [*cough* Klan […]
