Nike has announced that it has chosen Colin Kaepernick to be the face of its 30th anniversary “Just do it” campaign, according to HollywoodThe Reporter.
The new ad features the tagline “Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything. #JustDoIt.”
Kaepernick has not played for an NFL team since 2016, when he began a wave of protests by NFL players
Since Aretha Franklin’s death on Aug. 16, the world has memorialized the soul icon in fitting fashion — as a Queen. Her voice “captured the experience of living through profound change and showed how to preserve integrity in its wake,” as Ann Powers wrote, an example that can
In an audio recording revealed yesterday, Nigerian kidnapped schoolgirl Leah Sharibu appeals to the government of Nigeria to win her release from Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, according to several published sources.
Boko Haram released more than 100 kidnapped schoolgirls about four weeks after taking them on Feb. 19 but held Leah Sharibu, 15, the kidnapped schoolgirl in question, because she refused to convert to Islam, Morning Star News revealed on March 26.
In the audio rec
The Slavery Abolition Act was approved by Parliament on this day in 1833. The act abolished slavery in most British colonies, and freed more than 800,000 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and South Africa, as well as a small number in Canada.
The number of African American small business owners in the United States has increased by a staggering 400% in just a year. This was the finding of a survey from the small business financing company, Guidant Financial.
The State of a Small Business survey interviewed more than 2,600 small business owners and entrepreneurs, both male and female.
The survey found that in 2018, 45% of small business owners were minority ethnic groups. This was already a
Sincere and Sincerely Misguided Offers
When I enrolled in the Masters of Divinity program at a conservative evangelical seminary, I had no other aspirations than to earn a degree and obtain a ministry position suited to my skills and experience. I thought I would have three or four years once I started school to decide on a ministry placement. But from the moment I arrived on campus, I was assaulted with opportunities.
Numerous individuals and organizations have approached me, offering me chur
Video of a Fox News debate with Juan Williams on evangelical support for Trump. Williams wrote the op-ed “Evangelicals Sell Their Souls for Trump” for TheHill.com.
Now a famous (infamous?) truism that 81 percent of white evangelicals supported Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. In doing so, evangelical leaders cast aside their past and very public statements about the importance of strong moral character for those in leadership.
It makes a certain kind of sense that some white ev
An Oakland firefighter is at the center of the latest high-profile case of what appears to be racial profiling in the area.
Last month, Kevin Moore and some colleagues were performing routine inspections in the upscale Oakland Hills, which has some of the priciest real estate in the Bay Area. Another firefighter, Megan Bryan, was so frustrated with the treatment he received from residents during the inspection, she wrote a post about it on Facebook.
Because California wildfires have been
A planned summit on race Donald Trump agreed last week to host at the White House is in disarray and unlikely to take place before this year’s elections, if at all, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Trump had been said to be ‘totally 100 percent for it’ by an outside adviser, Pastor Darrell Scott. ‘Now we’re just dotting the i’s crossing the t’s getting the logistics in place,’ Scott said Thursday after an Oval Office meeting with Trump.
Scott said then that Kanye West would be the most significant
Another young and unarmed father was killed by police after the fatal shooting of Stephon Clark.
Diante “Butchie” Yarber, a 26-year-old father of three, was driving his cousin and friends to a local Walmart store in Barstow, California, two hours outside of Los Angeles, on April 5. In broad daylight, police officers fired what sounde
On January 22, 2018, seven white teenagers in the United Kingdom “allegedly tied up and whipped a Black pupil in a ‘mock slave auction,'” according to Bath Chronicle. The students still attend the school.
The Bath Chronicle reports, “white teenagers chained a fellow pupil to a lamppost and whipped him with sticks, calling him extreme racist names harking back to the slave trade.” The name of the school and the student who was assaulted have not be released to protect the child’s identit
Municipalities and their insurance companies have paid out millions to Black families in high-profile police killings—creating apparently arbitrary price tags that undervalue Black lives. The latest case is in Tulsa, Oklahoma where officials settled with the family of a man who was fatally shot in April 2015 by a White reserve deputy.
Tulsa County settled the family’s federal civil rights suit for a price tag of $6 million for Eric Harris’ life, according to court documents filed on Friday. Th
President Donald Trump‘s racist resentment toward Black and brown people was undeniable during his first State of the Union address Tuesday night. Sandwiched between spouting his familiar refrain of “America first” and pretending to reach across the aisle to Democrats, Trump launched a steady barrage of subliminal darts aimed at people with a darker skin hue.
In just about an hour and 20 minutes, Trump managed to take a pot shot at Colin Kaepernick and all of the people who protest racism and
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It’s ironic that as I crossed the Walt Whitman Bridge to attend an urban apologetics conference in Philadelphia I encountered the very religious pluralism that makes conferences such as these a necessity. As my weathered SUV pulled up to the stoplight, I could see the Marcus Garvey–inspired Pan-African flag pirouetting in the wind, and I could hear the a
Congregants at Notre Dame d’Haiti Catholic Church in Miami expressed distress on Sunday at President Trump’s remarks denigrating Haiti. (Credit: Saul Martinez for The New York Times)
In the middle of a rousing rendition of “We Shall Overcome” on Sunday morning, Marty Austin Lamar, the music director of the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, made a sudden change to the lyrics.
“O.K., we are not afraid, but replace ‘someday’ with ‘today,’” he told the congregation.
The worshipers s
The Nobel laureate was one of the most important leaders of the African American civil rights movement. The inspirational leader is considered a global human rights icon. Martin Luther King, Jr. was known for his words and the impact that these words created.Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on 15 th of January, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. Montgomery Bus Boycott, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Civil rights movement were some of the major incidents Martin Luther King was associated wit
Though his voice was silenced nearly 50 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s message of nonviolence still resonates and inspires.
Decades ago, the famed civil rights leader – also regarded as one of America’s greatest orators – recalled driving one night from Atlanta to Chattanooga, Tennessee, with his brother A.D. at the wheel. Most cars in the opposite lane failed to dim their lights, and his brother angrily vowed to keep his bright lights on in retaliation.
“And I looked at him right quic
For several months now, Oprah Winfrey has been floated as a possible presidential candidate in the near future. While she and her associates have denied any such plans, speculation and enthusiasm was stirred anew with the speech she gave while accepting the Cecile B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes on Sunday.
While many would love to see “Oprah for President” become a reality, there are three reasons why the Queen of All Media will never run for public office.
1. Oprah is too spiritual. She
