This really isn’t Raven-Symoné’s week: first she rumbled with the Beyhive, and now she’s defending racist remarks about First Lady Michelle Obama Can someone please come get their homegirl, Raven-Symoné? The “Empire” star got stung by the Beyoncé’s loyal (if overzealous) fans this week after she posted a video of Lil Kim performing. In […]
That viral girl fight in McDonald’s in Flatbush has become one of the most shared and discussed violent clips in recent memory. One brash comment of the incident comes from Texas conservative and radio host, Michael Berry who, based on the video, fearlessly questioned whether Black people really do believe that Black lives matter. He said,”We have people […]
Can someone please tell us when this “Yeezy Season” of Kanye West’s ends because we are tired of him and his foot in mouth disorder! Ye sat down with France’s Clique TV, to talk about fashion, the state of pop music, race, his daughter North’s toys and more. During the interview West claimed the reason […]
By now, most of us have seen the video of racist chant of the Oklahoma SAE frat boys. For some reason, people find these things surprising. Why? America has been trying to sell its citizens, as well as the rest of the world, its post-racial/colorblind society for a few years now. And those of us […]
#KendrickLamar discusses his troubled past, ongoing struggles and “unapologetic” third album, ’To Pimp a Butterfly,’ in our new cover story. Head to RollingStone.com for highlights and pick up the issue on newsstands Friday. A photo posted by Rolling Stone (@rollingstone) on Mar 11, 2015 at 8:59am PDT Kendrick Lamar appeared on the latest cover of […]
The Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity of the University of Oklahoma was permanently shut down Monday after the backlash of a video featuring SAE White frat brothers singing a hurtful and racist chant. However, just because the frat is closed doesn’t mean the members caught on video won’t have to take responsibility. Today, two of the students, identified […]
Fifty years ago, police in Selma, Ala., brutally beat peaceful protestors attempting to march over the now infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge — a roadway named…
On Tuesday, the Department of Justice found Ferguson’s Police Department guilty of racially charged practices (that targeted Black residents). But they also concluded that former cop Darren Wilson would not be facing criminal charges for killing unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown. A shocking decision considering his murder was the capstone of why the DOJ investigated Ferguson’s racial bias in […]
Judgment day has arrived for the infamous Ferguson Police department of Missouri. After the Department of Justice announced yesterday that Ferguson police were guilty of practicing systematic racism and “routinely violating the rights” of Black citizens, another bomb has dropped that the entire agency could all together be exterminated. MUST READ: BEAUTIFUL NEWS: Talib Kweli’s Ferguson Fundraiser […]
Tell us something we don’t know, right? Republicans are haters, especially of President Obama. There’s a new survey that polled Americans on their feelings about President Obama and apparently one third of us don’t think President Obama loves America.”Less than half of adults, 47 percent, said the president loves his country, while 35 percent said […]
Fox 8 News anchor Kristi Capel has been suspended for three days after using the racist slur “jigaboo” to describe the music accompanying Lady Gaga’s stellar “Sound Of Music” performance at the Oscars this year. In the segment, you could tell that Capel was trying to come up with a word to describe the loud […]
Three White men (William Kirk Montgomery, Joseph Paul Dominick and Jonathan Kyle Gaskamp) have been sentenced to federal prison for the murder of James Craig Anderson, an unarmed and innocent 47-year-old Black man. U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves issued the decrees to Montgomery, Dominick and Gaskamp. Montgomery received nineteen and a half years for helping to […]
