NEW YORK- New York officials want to increase the fines given to cab drivers who do not pick up people based on race. RELATED: Top 10 black movies that should have won an Oscar The New York Post reports: Cabdrivers who refuse passengers on the basis of race or their far-flung destinations are being targeted […]
New York — A controversial anti-abortion billboard in Soho aimed at African-American women and children is being pulled down after mass outrage from Black leaders. RELATED: Top 9 Black TV Hosts The Rev. Al Shaprton, who applied pressure to the group who put the ad up said that it was especially offensive during Black History […]
DALLAS-John Wiley Price, the Dallas county commissioner go into a shouting match with a citizen during a Court meeting in which he said: All of you are white. Go to hell! I’m not ashamed! Go to hell! The shouting match occurred after a citizen, Jeff Turner began referring him as the Chief Mullah of Dallas […]
New York Fire Department electrician, Gregory Seabrook, found a noose in his locker after suing the FDNY for racial discrimination. The New York Daily News reports: Gregory Seabrook, an FDNY communications electrician for nearly 20 years, found the noose Thursday at the FDNY facility at 87 Union St. in Brooklyn, his lawyers said yesterday. “There’s […]
ATLANTA-4 African-American hockey players on the Atlanta Thrashers, Anthony Stewart, Johnny Oduya Evander Kane and Dustin Byfuglien have talked with CNN Headline News to discuss racism in hockey and the NHL. SEE ALSO: Philadelphia Apologizes To Late Jackie Robinson For 1947 Racism The Psychological Toll Of Racism On Black & Minority College Students SOURCE: CNN […]
ALABAMA- Parents of students at small High School in Millry Alabama say that a father stormed the gym and threatened to kill Black basketball players for talking to his daughter. Local 15 reports: “He said that if any contact was made to his daughter that he would kill him and his black friends,” said Latisha […]
NEW YORK-After the Tuscon tragedy, activist Al Sharpton has called on the FCC to regulate racism on the radio, particularly Rush Limbaugh. The Hill Reports: We’re not telling Rush don’t say what he wants to say. Say it at home,” Sharpton said in December. “Don’t get on publicly regulated radio and television that are selectively […]
In one of her three great books—I can’t remember which because I read her complete works back-to-back-to-back—Gayl Jones has a mock dialogue which I’ll paraphrase like so: White Person: Why aren’t there more great Black scientists? Black Person: All our best minds are tackling the “race problem”. I was reminded of this again yesterday after […]
HOUSTON A group of young, African American professionals are claiming racism after a party of theirs was shut down at the Hudson in the trendy Rice Village area of Houston. Video blogger and Houston resident, Lydia Cotton had the following to say about the incident. December 28, 2010 was the night I and a hundred […]
Whenever we propose that one Black can make us all look bad, one of the most subliminally interesting things that we’re suggesting about white people is that they’re so dumb that they can’t tell us apart. If I were white, I’d be insulted by this—if I were smart enough to get that I should be […]
(CHICAGO-Chicago Sun-Times) A 4-year-old boy was Duct-Taped at the Pui Tak Christian School, in Chicago Illinois and the boy’s parents, Harold and Cara Irving, who are African-American, are claiming that race was a factor. The Chicago Sun-Times reports: “I received a call from the school informing me that my son was in the principal’s office […]
New York — Glenn Beck and Fareed Zakaria are best known as political pundits, but this week the two are locked head-to-head in a battle over math.
