A Tennessee GOP member is raising eyebrows over a comment she made on her Facebook. Rep. Sheila Butt of Maury County made many jaws dropped over her response to an open letter from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) imploring Republican leaders to have their future presidential candidate reach out and “engage Muslim voters” and “reject Islamphobia.” […]

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 […]

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On February 15, the New Mexico paper Roswell Daily Record posted a very racist editorial cartoon that poked fun at cultural icons. Drawn and worded by Keith Bell, it’s a close-up of a street sign that bears the names of heroes Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cesar Chavez and how many miles each of their […]

A Mississippi Judge is seeing himself on the other side of the bench after allegations surfaced he attacked a disabled man nine months ago. Madison County Justice Court judge Bill Weisenberger who is white, is being accused of hitting and shouting “Run, n!$#%r, run” at a 20-year-old Eric Rivers, who is black and mentally disabled at […]

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We know that racism still exists, but it doesn’t make viewing clips, messages and commentary that perpetuates discrimination any less shocking and sad. Yesterday, Brad Knudson, a White male and father took to YouTube in defense of his 14-year-old adopted Black daughter Dierdra, who was a victim of cyber-bullying and racist remarks directed at her. MUST […]

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Marist College and NBC News have released a poll that reveals a majority of White people (52 percent) believe that local police forces treat White and Black people “equally.” Pause–records screeching and all of that! According to the same researchers of this study, the percentage is the highest it’s been since conducting such studies of […]

Earlier this week, a group of about a dozen Black students walked out of Booker T. Washington High School in Norfolk, Virigina after learning of a racist tweet posted by the school’s assistant principal Amy Strickland in June. The students complained, but were ignored by the school’s principal, so they took matters into their own […]

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The new Brazilian adaptation of the famous show “Sex and the City” has received extremely negative feedback. Viewers are outraged with the series stating that…

https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/517304249781612544/photo/1 Following the security breach drama at the White House at the hands of the Secret Service, The Boston Herald published the above racist cartoon, poking fun at President Obama. With the caption, “White House Invader Got Farther Than Originally Thought,” the cartoon references the man (a security contractor) who somehow bypassed all White House […]

Remember that time luxury retail giant, Barneys was under fire for several back to back cases of “shopping while Black,” where several Black customers complained of being treated unfairly or with unwarranted force after shopping and or/leaving NYC’s Madison Avenue Barneys location? This sad pattern of racial profiling began last year when the high-end store […]

Children clothing line, Just Add A Kid, is under fire after a photo was posted on Twitter that displayed the clothing line’s latest collection. The new clothes feature cartoon character bodies of surfers, princesses, cowboys, military men, angels and various animals and the T-shirts in the line are hanging by cardboard cutouts of various children’s faces […]

Baby K’Tan came under extreme social media fire when a photo was posted showing two different packages for their baby carrier. One one package, there’s a single Black mother. On the other package, there’s a happy White mother and father. Well damn, even in imaginary scenarios, Black women are known as baby mothers while White […]