Via AdWeek I guess when Mountain Dew teamed up with hip-hop group Odd Future they believed they could push the envelope. Well they have definitely pushed the envelope, too far this time. Â So many people have spoken out about this racist commercial, forcing PEPSICo to pull the add. The actors are members of the music […]
George Zimmerman who shot and killed Trayvon Martin allegedly in self-defense has made bail and was released from a Florida jail early this afternoon. His supporters poured about 20,000 dollars into his defense fund. Interestingly enough, he didn’t make the almost 1 million dollars bullied grandma made. Read the story on TheGrio.com
The Jarawa tribe, 400 members strong, live in the reserve lush forests of South Andamans in the Indian Ocean. The Jarawa people lived successfully on their island without contact with outsiders for probably about 55,000 years until 1998. Since then, many have left their forest to settle in nearby towns and settlements. Now there are […]
What is up with Republicans and welfare? SEE ALSO: Crazy Celebrity Gifts GOP Candidates Go To NH First, it was Rick Santorum who said he didn’t want to help blacks with welfare. Now it’s Newt Gingrich‘s turn to alienate African Americans, TheGrio reports. Slate journalist Dave Weigel tweeted that Gingrich told an audience in New […]
Missouri State University is apologizing after its band performed “Dixie,” a song that originated in the blackface minstrel shows of the 1850s, at a site where three black men were lynched in 1906. SEE ALSO: 30 Percent Of Americans Arrested By Age 23
Officials at Akron University recently issued a campus wide email instructing Black male students to “cooperate” with police officers, after a string of robberies that are suspected to have been done by African-American males who don’t attend the college. The email instructs Black male students to identify themselves as students, and cooperate with the police […]
Vogue Italia has apologized for posting a fashion editorial on large metallic hoop earrings that they described as “Slave Earrings” after protests from consumers. They’ve replaced the description with “Ethnic Earrings,” and maintain that it was a mistake due to an improper translation. TheRoot.com reports: We apologise for the inconvenience. It is a matter of […]
Community leaders from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and local businesses in Fort Worth, Texas are unhappy with the name of a local food-mart titled “Da Hood Food Mart.” “The name is insulting to our African-American heritage and the over-saturation of these types of establishments within the economically disadvantaged communities is simply a continuation of […]
An African-American soldier alleges that he experienced racial harassment while serving in Afghanistan. Slurs and a noose strung up outside his barracks were among the alleged forms of harassment he filed in a complaint this week. Specialist Adam Jarrell, the only African American in a unit of 216 soldiers of the New Mexico Army National […]
Even after the show ended, our guest Eric Deter had a mouthful to say on The Lincoln Ware Show concerning his recent racist remarks. Check out the additional commentary as he speaks out against WLW 700AM for firing him and makes an attempt to appease the listening audience of primarily African Americans. Were you offended […]
Unfamiliar with the Eric Deters drama? Check out the clip below from the Dayton Informer as reporters discuss exactly what went down during Eric Deters’ random rant and how the video was published. Dayton Informer editor and publisher David Sparks and guest commentator Audra Sparks address the firing of Cincinnati Attorney and former talk show […]
WLW 700AM has fired Northern Kentucky attorney and talk show host Eric Deters this week after a slew of controversy sparked when a homemade video blog of himself was posted on Facebook with racist remarks. In the video, Eric “The Bulldog” Deters said “if you want to conquer an African nation, send white women and […]
