Barbara Shannon, pastor of New Heights Christian Center, addressing the funeral of Terence T. Crutcher at Antioch Baptist Church in Tulsa, Okla., on Saturday evening. (Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times)
Terence T. Crutcher was new to the Dream Team.
The members were a group of older students at Tulsa Community College who served as mentors to younger black men with troubled pasts. Delores Taylor told Mr. Crutcher he was the perfect candidate: He had turned 40 in August, and he was tu
Mike McCarn/AP PhotoIn a city rocked by recent protests, star NFL player Cam Newton worked out on the field prior to kickoff at a Panthers home game in Charlotte wearing a black shirt bearing a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. quote: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
The pre-game attire of Newton, one of the league's best-known black pla
If you do a Google image search using the term “theologian,” you’ll be met by a host of faces, some familiar, some strange. Augustine, Luther, Barth, Keller—whether ancient or still living, remembered or forgotten, they stand within the frames of icons, portraits, and photographs as the de facto mediators of our faith. They are the articulators of our doctrines and the formulators of our practice, the guides to whom many of us turn when our faith is put to the test.
They are also almost excl
Tulsa County’s district attorney announced Thursday that charges have been filed against Betty Shelby, the police officer who shot and killed Terence Crutcher last Friday afternoon. Steve Kunzweiler said in a press conference that the county will charge Shelby with first-degree manslaughter for the 40-year-old unarmed black man’s death. Dashcam and helicopter footage showed Crutcher with his hands up in the air before Shelby fired at him, but the officer claimed that he was non-compliant, that
The letters “KKK” were spray-painted in red, white and blue letters, along with the message “Leave N***ers” on a campus building.
Racists Paint “Leave KKK Leave N*ggers” on EMU Dorm Wallhttp://bit.ly/2cHcXPB via @JeandraLeBeauf
The Free Press said about 150 protesters marched to the home of EMU’s president,
Rodney Axon, a high school student, and NFL player is known to be the first person to protest the anthem in high school. The Ohio Brunswick High School student, on September 2nd, decided to protest against racial injustice, starting with his own experience. He knelt down when the anthem was being sung rather than standing.
Axson joins the likes of Eric Reid, Jeremy Lane, and Colin Kaepernick, who also protested the same way. But what makes Axon’s own different is that it wasn’t planned.
“I di
© Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports The San Francisco Police Officers Association unloaded on Colin Kaepernick.
The San Francisco Police Officers Association is unhappy with the recent comments Colin Kaepernick made about law enforcement corruption, and the organization is demanding an apology.
In a letter addressed to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and 49ers president and CEO Jed York, SFPOA president Martin Halloran ripped Kaepernick for his “foolish statement” about the law enforcement profess
Dave Chappelle said Black Lives Matter is the worst slogan he’s ever heard.
The 43-year-old comedian said he thought it was “a terrible slogan” during a rare standup performance at The Cutting Room in New York Sunday night.
“He began the hour by saying, quite jovially: ‘This will be a racist show. I’m telling you now,’” Roger Friedman said in his column Monday. “His jokes about blacks and white were evenly divided. But the subjects of the day were right up there.”
“‘Black lives matter is a ter
Charges were dropped against Baltimore police officers accused of contributing to the death of Freddie Gray. Top row, from left, Caesar Goodson Jr., Garrett Miller and Edward Nero. Bottom row, from left: William Porter, Brian Rice and Alicia White. (AFP/Getty Images)
After a Baltimore jury convicted him of shooting a man during a 1996 traffic stop, Sgt. Stephen R. Pagotto said he became a pariah in the community and with top police brass.
The Baltimore Police Department fired him, and he bec
Faheem Alexander NBC News
At Faheem’s Hand of Precision barbershop in South Philadelphia, the usual squad or patrons gathered for their weekly shape-up to talk sports, culture and this week—a little politics.
The barbershop is owned by Faheem Alexander, a Philly native who has cut the heads of anyone and everyone from celebrities like Ice-T and The Roots’ band, to middle class working Philadelphians for the past 16 years.
Alexander is an entrepreneur who knows that his shop is one of the class
Congresswoman Joyce Beatty from Ohio’s 3rd Congressional district delivers this week’s CBC Message to America addressing the racial gap that exists amongst those attempting to achieve the American dream.
While the American dream can be elusive and difficult for many to achieve, the Congressional Black Caucus is not willing to sit idly by as African-Americans lose hope in their ability to reach it.
So, how will the CBC help members of the African-American community obtain the American Dream? T
I think the chances are pretty good that the White House just days from now will announce that President Obama intends to travel to Baton Rouge to pay tribute to the slain police officers there. I could be wrong, but I can’t imagine him not going now, even though he ignored calls for a presidential visit to Baton Rouge and Falcon Heights, Minn., where Alton Sterling and Philando Castile were killed, just prior to the massacre in Dallas.
If I’m right about this, whenever the memorial service for
It should have been a happy week for Leslie Jones.
Crowned one of the new Ghostbusters, Jones joined Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Kristen Wiig in the reboot, which survived months of vitriol to take the No. 2 spot at the box office last weekend (almost beating out The Secret Life of Pets, which nudged ahead).
But behind the Hollywood rollout was another ugly storm brewing on social media. On Monday, Jones began retweeting the ugly, racist hatred that has been coming her way on Twitter.
A lone gunman wearing all black and toting a rifle shot and killed three cops in Baton Rouge and wounded three more Sunday, authorities said.
Cops killed the shooter in a wild shootout around 8:40 a.m. local time on a main thoroughfare in the Louisiana capitol.
The gunman was identified by CBS as Gavin Eugene Long. Multiple reports linked Long to homegrown hate groups. The Wall Street Journal, citing sources, said he belonged to an antigovernment group called the New Freedom Group. MSNBC repo
Dear, President Obama:
As a black man, I have cried more times than I care to admit in the past week, particularly after hearing the audiotape of Diamond Reynolds’ live Facebook video following the killing of her fiance, Philando Castile, in Falcon Heights, Minn. My heart wept as she showed profound resilience and calm in the face of an overly aggressive police officer who appeared unbothered by the trauma he had just inflicted on her and her 4-year-old daughter.
Has your heart wept? Have y
(ThyBlackMan.com) Just a day after millions of Americans celebrated the “Fourth of You Lie,” our nation got more evidence of the lie we live when we “celebrate” freedom. On July 5, 2016, Alton Sterling was killed by White police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in an encounter that was blessedly videotaped. The footage showed a man being shot, even as he was down on the ground. A day later, on July 6, 2016, Philando Castile was shot four times as he attempted to comply with a police officer’
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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