The NBA has selected Dick Parsons to act as the interim CEO of the Los Angeles Clippers. Parsons arrived in Los Angeles on Monday and met with management and staff of the team.Â
A South Dakota judge sentenced a man who killed a woman as part of a plot to assassinate President Barack Obama to death on Tuesday. The hearing formalized a unanimous vote of a jury to sentence 44-year-old James McVay to death.Â
Police arrested six students at Streamwood High School on Tuesday, after a race-related fight broke out among them. No one was seriously injured, but one student did have a bloody lip.Â
A black police sergeant risked his life by going undercover as a “Black Klansman.” Now, he is sharing his experiences in a new book.Â
Yesterday, Ras Baraka claimed the mayoral seat of Newark, NJ. Baraka, a councilman and activist, beat law professor Shavar Jeffries for the seat left vacant by Cory Booker, who is now a senator in Washington. Baraka won 54% of the vote.
The family of a Florida teen is moving forward with a formal complaint against the Boynton Beach Police Department after a video surfaced showing an officer kicking the teen while he was handcuffed.
Magic Johnson has responded to remarks made by Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. In a bizarre interview with Anderson Cooper that aired Monday, Sterling questioned Johnson’s character, as well as his contributions to the African American community. During an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Johnson made the following statement:
The arrest of a 9-year-old girl in Portland last year has prompted a committee to review the case. The girl was handcuffed and taken to a police station without a parent or guardian after being questioned by police about a fight.Â
The following post originally appeared on The Root, and was written by Benjamin Todd Jealous and Andrea Ritchie. The piece’s original title is “It’s Time to End Profiling of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People of Color.” By: Benjamin Todd Jealous and Andrea Ritchie A Â few years ago in New York City, a 17-year-old black […]
The older I get, the more I start to question things. I’ve always been a firm believer that in life we’re supposed to be taught, but be wise enough, and willing enough to unlearn things that aren’t our own truths. So when I came across a very interesting article on NPR’s website, my spidey senses […]
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has issued an apology for racist remarks made during a recorded conversation with his former girlfriend V. Stiviano. On Sunday, Sterling apologized for the entire ordeal calling it a “terrible mistake.”
The following post was written by Frank Simpkins, author of “The Unfinished Business of the Civil Rights Movement: Failure of America’s Public Schools to Properly Educate its African American Student Populations. Simpkins is co-author of “Between Rhetoric and Reality.” By: Frank Simpkins An overriding theoretical, philosophical and political consideration of the cross-cultural approach to education […]
