A White Talladega, Alabama, police officer was fired last week after posting a racist meme of at First Lady Michelle Obama, reports The Washington Post.
Officer Joel Husk posted a meme that said Obama was “fluent in ghetto,” to which Talladega City Manager Patrick Bryant responded: “We will not tolerate that kind of conduct by any employees. We take very seriously our responsibility to treat everyone equally and equitably. We have to make sure we take steps for the community to trust us.”
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At least two more churches have been vandalized with what appears to be pro-Donald Trump racist graffiti, according to the houses of worship.
One of the churches, St. David's Episcopal, in Beanblossom, Ind., was targeted sometime Saturday, a Facebook post from the church says.
"Three tags were painted on the outside of the church," the post says, including "Heil Trump" and a swastika.
"We are disappointed that our safe haven has been vandalized but will not let the actions of a few damper our
The director of a West Virginia development group and a mayor are under scrutiny after a racist post about first lady Michelle Obama caused a backlash and prompted calls on social media for both women to be fired.
Clay County Development Corp. director Pamela Ramsey Taylor made the post following Donald Trump's election as president, saying: "It will be refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, dignified First Lady in the White House. I'm tired of seeing a Ape in heels."
Clay Mayor Beverly Whali
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a child while speaking at a campaign rally at the KI Convention Center on October 17, 2016 in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
*For whatever reason, Donald Trump has been trying real hard to win over the black community. This after being fined by the government for his and his father’s racist policies that kept African Americans from renting in any of their properties. He also ca
The nation celebrated Veterans Day on Friday, saluting family, friends and neighbors who fought in every single war for the country. But America must also acknowledge the treatment of its Black veterans, many of whom were brutalized and abused after returning home from service.
The Equal Justice Initiative recently released Lynching in America: Targeting Black Veterans, a 52-page report which painstakingly “documents the culture of targeted physical violence and social humiliation that black ve
Black people in America are in a constant state of trauma. The realities of everyday racist microaggressions, to the neverending stream of police shootings of unarmed black folk, to the spiritual damage of slavery, Jim Crow, and beyond.
For many black Americans and other Americans of color, Donald Trump’s election on Tuesday feels like a stab in the gut, a reminder that despite the bubbles of progressiveness that we live in, a wide swath of the nation
FBI Director James Comey on Sunday spoke at the International Chiefs of Police Conference in San Diego, and said that those who believe there is a police shooting epidemic of Black men “have no idea” what they’re talking about, according to ABC News.
Viral videos of police gunning down Black men, he noted before the gathering of thousands of law enforcement officials, do not an epidemic make, but serve to make the public believe that all police are untrained bigots.
“In the absence of informa
The summer of 2016 has been dubbed by some the Summer of Justice. As the presidential candidates held their conventions, unrest in America could no longer be contained.
Demonstrations by grassroots chapters of the Black Lives Matter movement demanded justice again and again as video after video went viral showing black men and women beaten and killed by police officers.
The images were hauntingly similar to photographs and newsreels from 50 and 60 years ago.
Brutality in action was captured in
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
Two days after sparking a national conversation in the wake of his decision to sit during the pre-game performance of the national anthem Friday night, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick isn’t changing his tune.
Addressing reporters from his locker at the team’s training facility for nearly 20 minutes Sunday, Kaepernick, who’s sat during The Star Spangled Banner for each of the Niners’ preseason games so far, said: “I’ll continue to sit. … I’m going to continue to stand with the
