Over the last few weeks American Muslims have been in the news a lot. It started with controversy over the TV show All American Muslim. Then it continued after Muslims boycotted Lowe’s hardware stores for pulling ads during the show due to outside pressure. Not long after Muslim community leaders in New York boycotted Mayor Bloomberg’s […]
LONDONÂ — A jury has found two white men guilty of murdering a black teenager in a brutal racist stabbing that shocked Britain almost two decades ago. SEE ALSO: What To Watch On TV This Winter Gary Dobson, 36, and David Norris, 35, were convicted Tuesday of killing Stephen Lawrence as he waited for a […]
This year has come and gone, but unfortunately, racism is here to stay. Our Black president has given racists a good target in the political realm, but we still see racism from teachers, police officers and even athletes. Here are the Top 10 racist quotes of 2011. SEE ALSO: Black Actresses Need Better Roles 10. […]
An activist was beaten and arrested at a Dutch Christmas celebration after attempting to call attention to the racist depiction of Zwarte Piet, a beloved Santa’s-helper folk character in the Netherlands. SEE ALSO: Ed Lover to NFL Players: Chill With The Celebrating! For the last few years, activists have worked to reform or change Zwarte […]
BERLIN (AP) — An American Jewish group is applauding German police for taking former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke into custody before he could address a far-right gathering. See also:Â Are These 5 White Politicians Racists (Or Just Bigots)? See also:Â It’s David Duke’s Turn To Get Presidential Speculation, Apparently Elan Steinberg, vice president of the […]
Pat Robertson never fails to deliver. More foolishness from America’s favorite crypto-Christian conservative crackpot. This via the Huffington Post: Pat Robertson appeared confused about macaroni and cheese while hosting “The 700 Club” Wednesday on the Christian Broadcasting Network following a clip of host Kristi Watts interviewing former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. In the clip, […]
On his radio show yesterday, right wing pundit Rush Limbaugh talked about the recent booing of First Lady Michelle Obama at a NASCAR event. Limbaugh defended the booers, claiming that they had a right to do so, considering her healthy eating initiatives and vacations, accusing her of “uppity-ism.” The term “uppity” has historically been used […]
Campus administrators and officials at an upstate New York university are investigating several racist signs that have popped up on campus this semester. SUNY New Paltz, one of the state of New York’s many universities, has recently been bombarded by racist signs most notably, one by a water fountain that harkens back to the Civil […]
A TSA agent at O’Hare airport in Chicago has been fired after he posted anti-Muslim and racist comments on his Facebook page. Roy Egan worked at the airport for close to a decade and was suspended in October after TSA found him to be in violation of employee conduct on and off the job. See […]
The connection between race and capital punishment has been a hot topic this year, and it’s likely to remain one after a new study found a shocking pattern in the way one Texas county sentences people to die. Of the last 13 men that have been sentenced to death in Harris County, 12 of them […]
An African American waitress in Towson, Maryland is claiming that her boss ordered her to serve only Black customers who entered their Applebees location. The waitress, 27-year-old Courtney Haywood, filed a discrimination lawsuit after being fired earlier this year. She started working at the Applebees location in 2007, and when new management took over earlier […]
The election of Barack Obama to America’s highest office — while stirring political activism in a new multiracial generation — it has also galvanized those of the opposite ilk. Not only has the xenophobic and often racist Tea Party come to the fore, but Obama’s ascendance has also brought Neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and seemingly every wing […]
