Actor Wendell Pierce, who plays Clarence Thomas in HBO’s Confirmation, says he believes “something happened” between Thomas and then-law professor Anita Hill (Kerry Washington). Hill accused her former Equal Employment Opportunity Commission boss Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment in 1991, just
A rapper called Tyler, the Creator is looking to make a buck by selling “Adolf Trump” t-shirts depicting Donald Trump donning an Adolf Hitler mustache.
A narrow plurality of African Americans said they believe new groups like Black Lives Matter (BLM) represent them more than older groups, such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), says a new study from Brilliant Corners, a Washington, D.C.-based research firm.
As many as 30 all-terrain vehicle (ATV) riders surrounded and stopped an ambulance transporting a sick child on Monday, D.C. police said.
Bill Clinton’s commandment that Black Lives Matter activists should “tell the truth” about black criminality would likely be heeded if it were directed at the generation of blacks that voted for him. But the generation protesting now did not see or feel
Six-year-old Madison Pruitt has wanted to be a Chicago police officer for almost as long as she’s been alive. And just when she was about to make her inaugural trip to the Chicago police department, little Madison felt too weak
Hip hop mogul Russell Simmons demanded an apology from Bill Clinton after the former president clashed with Black Lives Matter protesters Thursday at a Hillary Clinton campaign rally in Philadelphia.
Sesame Street unveiled a fresh face Thursday: a hijab-wearing Afghani Muppet named Zari who will teach kids about “girl empowerment, social and emotional wellbeing.”
For the second time in less than 30 days, Black Lives Matter activist and Baltimore mayoral candidate DeRay Mckesson is pulling less than one percent in a poll for the Baltimore Democratic mayoral race.
Toronto Black Lives Matter co-founder Yusra Khogali is under fire over a Tweet she posted and deleted asking “Allah” to stop her from having to kill white people.
In an exhaustive sit-down interview for The Hollywood Reporter, Bernie Sanders endorsee Spike Lee got the democratic socialist to open up about GOP frontrunner Donald Trump and his ability to “manipulate the media” and why he is “sick and tired of seeing unarmed people shot” by “oppressive” police officers.
Billionaire David Tepper’s decision to leave New Jersey for tax-friendly Florida has Garden State lawmakers scrambling to find a way to avoid the edge of an income tax deficit cliff.
Video of a Georgia judge’s tough talk toward a group of troubled teens has gone viral, posting more than two million views on Facebook in under two days. Bibb County Superior Court Judge Verda Colvin regularly shows delinquent teens what life is
Josh Hilling’s body camera captured the confrontation he had with a knife-wielding murder suspect who was begging police to kill him.
The Tennessee legislature approved a bill Monday that would designate “the Holy Bible as the official state book,” becoming the first state to approve a measure of its kind.
A large number of faculty and law professors at American University’s Washington College of Law are claiming that the phrase “All Lives Matter” is an “act of intolerance.”
Beyoncé says her Super Bowl performance, which saw the singer and her backup dancers praising the anti-police Black Panther Party and won admiration from Malcolm X’s daughter, was not “anti-police” and was simply “powerful art” that was “misunderstood.”
Former Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis is excoriating the Black Lives Matter movement for its silence about the rising rates of black-on-black crime.
During his iHeartRadio Music Awards performance Sunday night, Justin Bieber showed off his new dreadlocks hairdo. The singer quickly became just the latest white person to be blamed for committing “cultural appropriation” — which is a term Social Justice Warriors use
Less than a week after posting their profanity-filled single “F–k Donald Trump” online, California-based rappers YG and Nipsey Hussle had the video shoot for the song shutdown by LAPD officers. After YG posted his initial casting call to Instagram, cameras began rolling and
Over the course of several Tweets, a vocal Black Lives Matter supporter named Imani Cezanne accused American Airlines of racial discrimination after a flight crew escorted her from the plane.
Washington State Senator Pramila Jayapal wants to change what she and the state’s Department of Natural Resources describe as ethnically and racially offensively-named landmarks in Washington state.
At just 11-years-old, little Mikaela Ulmer had the guts to launch her very own lemonade stand. And now her BeeSweet Lemonade has landed a distribution deal with United Natural Foods worth $11 million.
Since 2009, Louisiana-based rapper C-Murder–Corey Miller–has been serving a mandatory life sentence for the 2002 beating and fatal shooting of 16-year-old Steve Thomas. Now, authorities at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, LA, are investigating how the 45-year-old rapper produced and plans to release a new rap album behind bars.
Do liberal journalists beating Donald Trump over the head actually care about the specifics of banning abortion? Or does their newfound concern come from the fact that abortion can now be used to divide conservatives and tear apart an already fractured Republican party?
A 23-year-old man named Domenick Hoy has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault, among other charges, after he sucker punched a Pittsburgh police officer. An incident report says a Pittsburg officer was sitting in his parked police cruiser when he
While looking to open in theaters across the country, the casting directors for the hit Broadway play Hamilton put out an ad specifically seeking “non-white” actors. Civil rights attorney Randolph McLaughlin says that amounts to a violation of the New York City Human Rights Law. “You
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is caught in the crosshairs on yet another rap song, this time with lyrics that warn the Republican presidential candidate to stay out of Los Angeles, California unless he wants his “S–t” to get “crashed.” On
Justice Edward McLaughlin told a Harlem man convicted of attempted murder that black lives do matter, but in his courtroom he’s learned that sometimes “black lives don’t matter to black people with guns.” Tareek Arnold, who is 24 and black,
Cesia Abigail, a Minneapolis cafe owner, responded to a homeless man’s attempt to beg her patrons for money by offering him a temporary job.
Mississippi’s new policy requiring food stamps (SNAP) recipients to work or volunteer at least 20 hours a week has resulted in an increase in the number of people volunteering.
The video for an anti-Donald Trump laced with violent threats song performed by Baltimore rappers Tlow, Lor Roger, and Dooley, has garnered tens of thousands of views on Youtube, Soundcloud, and WorldStarHipHop.com. As the video begins, you can hear a voice
A women’s underwear line is selling Bloody Marys Period Panties. They include a “Blood Dumpster,” which places a picture of the face of a U.S. politician “in the crotch of a pair of Bloody Mary undies, for YOU to bleed all over!”
A group named Indecline, founded by Bum Fights (2002) creators Ryan MacPherson and Daniel Tanner, tagged empty stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with names of people killed by police officers. Names like Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Oscar Grant, and Eric Garner were placed on
After six years of planning, entertainment mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs announced Monday that he is starting a charter school in his native neighborhood in Harlem, New York. “Capital Prep Harlem is a free, public charter school located in the Harlem neighborhood in
Despite facing a near-nonstop barrage of criticism, director Zack Snyder’s hero epic Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is on pace to clear over $172 million in North America in its opening weekend.
While admitting that it’s not an “overtly political” movie, Ben Affleck, who plays billionaire Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, says the new superhero movie “does raise a question of, ‘What happens to us when we become afraid of one another?'”
Wrestling legend Hulk Hogan is speaking out about the $145 million he recently won as a result of a lawsuit against Gawker, defending himself from Gawker CEO Nick Denton’s threats to appeal, and his desire to return to World Wrestling Entertainment.
Artwork showing a white police officer clad in a Ku Klux Klan hood and pointing a gun at a small black child in a hoodie with his hands raised has outraged community members and prompted a meeting between city officials and the artists’s mother.
Just one day after three Virginia officers were shot, the Prince William County Public Safety Communications 911 center received a 911 call that is going viral online.
