After each fatal shooting of a black man by an officer, President Barack Obama has swiftly spoken out against bad policing, giving voice to the generations of African-Americans who have found themselves at the wrong end of a baton, a snarling dog or a gun.
As much as those words have comforted blacks, they have rankled many of the nation's men and women in blue. Some have described the remarks as an insult, an all-too-quick condemnation before all the facts are in and a failure to acknowledg
If his intro calling them a "hate America" group wasn't enough indication, Bill O'Reilly was clearly teed off at Black Lives Matter tonight and got very confrontational with an NAACP official over the group's tactics. O'Reilly told NAACP Washington bureau director Hilary Shelton that if black people want to bring the country together, they need to distance themselves from Black Lives Matter.
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The following is a guest post co-authored by Tyler Parry and Clayton Finn. Parry is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Parry’s research examines slavery in the Atlantic world. His work has appeared in the Journal of Southern History, American Studies, and Jacobin.com. He is currently revising his manuscript Bound in Bondage: Slave Matrimony in the African Diaspora for publication. Finn is a graduate student of American Studies at Californi
By Victor Ochieng
The conversation surrounding the police killing of unarmed African-American men is ongoing. Discussions are centered on whether Black lives really matter in America and why the people who swear to protect these lives end up as the killers.
However, as these conversations continue, the Black community shouldn’t forget to address the issue of unemployment and lack of business ownership that are equally serious threats to Black survival.
We saw the killing of Alton Sterling an
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Diamond Reynolds, the girlfriend of police-shooting victim Philando Castile, urged against violence at protests in the aftermath of his death, which she streamed on Facebook Live using her cellphone during the fatal traffic stop in a suburb of St. Paul, Minnesota, on Wednesday evening.
Reynolds said that she was "baffled" to see some protesters responding to police brutality with more violence.
In St. Paul this weekend, prote
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Television host Wendy Williams is known for “saying it like she means it” spilling the tea since she stepped on the entertainment scene as a gossip-y radio personality.
Normally, Williams is catching from celebrities, but this week, everyone is giving her plenty of side eyes. Unless you’ve been hiding from civilization, then you already know that Williams’ made some offensive comments about HBCUs and the NAACP while discussing Jesse Williams’ BET Awards acceptance speech dur
There was a moment when white Americans felt the dread black Americans live with daily. It happened Dec. 14, 2012, when a shooter entered a Newtown, Conn., elementary school and fatally shot 20 children between the
Mourning Alton Sterling. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
After the disturbing deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile at the hands of law enforcement officers this week, racial bias and police brutality have once again become heated subjects in the US.
Several online commenters have noted that the safety of black Americans doesn’t seem to have improved much since Jim Crow laws were struck down in 1965. In fact, US police seem to be killing more black citizens today than were lynched at the he
NEW YORK, NY – MAY 22: Shonda Rhimes attends 2016 Vulture Festival at Milk Studios on May 22, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Jenny Anderson/WireImage)
A new river has formed in the United States. The name of it is the White Tears River and it’s filled with the tears of white people who feel Jesse Williams’ recent BET Awards speech was racist.
While crying their tears, these people took time out to even start a petition to remove the actor from Grey’s Anatomy.
The petition is titled, “Sign
My family on July 4th 1776.
@lecrae Done supporting you bro. You make everything a race issues lately instead of a gospel issue. You promote guilt instead of love.
@Hevi_On_Honkers nah it's actually your tweets that are problematic racially.
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*Stacey Dash has a new target.
Commenting on the speech given by Jesse Williams at the 2016 BET Awards, the right wing pundit wrote, “You’ve just seen the perfect example of a HOLLYWOOD plantation slave!”
“Sorry, Mr. Williams. But the fact that you were standing onstage at THOSE awards tells people you really don’t know what you’re talking about. Just spewing hate and anger,” she continued on her Patheos Blog.
Dash also took issue with Williams’ critique of “the bystander” – a term she seems
Lecrae doesn’t have all of the answers to solve the problems in the world, but he does believe some key factors are needed to improve some social injustices within the country.
According to The Washington Post, the rapper who was born as Lecrae Devaughn Moore believes in order for race relations to improve, there should be “unity, forgiveness, equity and justice.”
The Christian-rapper-turned-New-York-Times-bestselling author who is promoting his first bookUnashamed, hasn’t shied away from spe
Lecrae doesn’t have all of the answers to solve the problems in the world, but he does believe some key factors are needed to improve some social injustices within the country.
According to The Washington Post, the rapper who was born as Lecrae Devaughn Moore believes in order for race relations to improve, there should be “unity, forgiveness, equity and justice.”
The Christian-rapper-turned-New-York-Times-bestselling author who is promoting his first bookUnashamed, hasn’t shied away from spe
(CNN) – Who knew a tattoo could lead to such an embarrassing gaffe?
That was case during the Oscars Sunday when a beauty website attempted to pay a compliment — and it went terribly wrong.
In a tweet commenting on celebrity red carpet looks, the company, Total Beauty, confused comedian and actress Whoopi Goldberg, 60, with media mogul Oprah Winfrey, 62.
Total Beauty, a Los Angeles-based company that posts fitness tips, tweeted a picture of Goldberg on the red carpet at the 88th Academy Awards
Yes, black a
This school year thousands of Texas students will be using Social Studies textbooks that whitewash history in such a way that the KKK and Jim Crow are glossed over, while slavery is downplayed and the Civil War is being portrayed as being more about sectionalism and states’ rights than slavery.
The change stands to have a significant impact as Texas is the second largest purchaser of textbooks in the United States, behind California, purchasing around 48 million textbooks each year. The state
By Nicholas Muiruri
Following the recent anti-Islamic remarks made by Donald Trump, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has reacted with condemnation. In his remarks, Kareem, a former NBA superstar compares Trump to the terror group ISIS. Three days ago, Donald Trump called for the banning of Muslims from the U.S. Trump was responding to the extremist attacks in France and California.
In response, Abdul-Jabbar stated that Trump was creating fear through statements that had no truth in them. The NBA legend add
