A year-long Washington Post investigation revealed that the high-profile deaths that spark so much media and activist attention—”white police officers killing unarmed black men—represent less than 4 percent of fatal police shootings.”
In an extended interview on Meet the Press, film director Spike Lee said he wanted his new film, “Chi-Raq,” to touch on “black-on-black violence” and make the point that “it’s not always policemen” killing black people.
In a recent interview, longtime comedian and actor Eddie Griffin said he would vote for anyone but billionaire Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, and added that he is tired of “professional politicians” like Hillary Clinton.
Social media exploded in a flurry of farewell messages over the weekend after news reports circulated details of how 15-year-old Fulton High School student and football player Zaevion Dobson shielded three girls as gang members fired into a crowd of children sitting on their front porch.
The Hateful Eight director Quentin Tarantino continued his war of words against the American law enforcement community during a recent interview, where he said, “cops actually realized that they kind of overreacted and actually don’t look so good.”
Weeks after gang members in Chicago lured 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee into an alley and slaughtered him, a community near Knoxville Tennessee is mourning Zeavion Dobson, who jumped in front of a barrage of bullets, saving three of his friends in the process.
Tweets have poured in from California to England to Germany in honor of 15-year-old Fulton High School student and football player Zaevion Dobson who shielded three girls as gang members fired into a crowd of children. But there has been no mention of Dobson’s death from Deray McKesson, a prominent leader of Black Lives Matter and one of the movement’s social media figureheads.
A new scientific poll commissioned by campus activist group Young America’s Foundation queried college students across the country on social and political issues from the importance of free enterprise to gender roles.
In an hour-long interview, taped in November, Atlanta-based rapper Killer Mike sat down with Bernie Sanders and discussed gun-control, marijuana legalization, and leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, whom he called a “fascist” and compared to Adolf Hitler and early twentieth-century Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
Rosalind Brewer, Sam’s Club president and CEO, is catching heat on social media for statements she made about one of her company’s suppliers consisting of “all Caucasian males.”
While Black Lives Matter members were shooting each other down on Twitter, black people were shooting each other to death in cities across the country.
In July, Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker called Donald Trump his “front runner” for president. Now, the former All-Pro running back makes more headlines with his latest political prediction.
Former stripper and advocate against what neo-feminists call “rape culture” Amber Rose announced her support for Hillary Clinton this week during a radio interview where she said of the Democratic presidential front-runner, “It’s just her moment.”
In an effort to “curb some of these unjust and unnecessary instances” of black people being pulled over by police, Mbye Njie developed the mobile app “Legal Equalizer” to “educate the masses and help them in getting more clarity on the laws.”
During a ceremony in celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the 13th amendment, the Republican-backed measure that abolished slavery, President Obama used the solemn occasion to take swipes at GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump and his proposal to temporarily freeze Muslims from entering the United States.
After the University of Tennessee’s Office of Diversity released its “inclusive holiday celebrations in the workplace” tips that excluded Secret Santa, Tennessee Republican representative Micah Van Huss (R) put forth legislation to defund the University’s controversial campus group.
John Boyega, who is a rebellious Stormtrooper named Finn in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, answered questions about his sex life, or lack there of, and the controversy surrounding his casting in the new blockbuster film.
Organizing members of the Black Liberation Collective from Harvard University to the University of Missouri have released a list of demands they want met at predominately white colleges as well as historical black universities.
Hip-hop superstar and former Mitt Romney supporter Nicki Minaj’s older brother Jelani Maraj has been arrested on charges of first-degree rape and first-degree course of sexual conduct against a 12-year-old child, according to reports.
Longtime Obama supporter and New York-based rapper Nas posted a picture to Instagram Saturday showing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s graffitied face with his mouth open on a bathroom wall behind a urinal.
The death of Michael Brown brought the birth of “Hands up, don’t shoot,” the media-fuelled fallacy and force behind a Black Lives Matter movement that flat-out ignores the main driver of Black America’s morass.
Chicago news headline after headline detailed the carnage that has consumed dozens of communities in that city where black men kill each other with terrifying regularity.
Annapolis resident Daniel Hodges has filed a lawsuit claiming that police officers unlawfully stopped him and searched his vehicle several times because he was a white man in a predominantly African-American and Latino neighborhood.
The Obama Department of Agriculture sent a letter to Georgia’s social services agency Wednesday, warning that if the state refuses to grant food stamp benefits to Syrian refugees, it would be doing so in direct violation of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008.
In a wide-ranging interview, the often-controversial singer Chris Brown talked about how he refused to be a part of “that statistic” of black man who are not fathers to their children.
A California-based group called “Concerned African American Parents” has accused a high-performing Pennsylvania school district of racial discrimination in a complaint sent to the U.S. Department of Education.
In an interview about the history of race in professional basketball, Los Angeles Lakers small forward Metta World Peace (formerly known as Ron Artest) lamented about the racism that exists in America and how racial prejudice impacts the National Basketball Association.
Parents are furious and confused after learning that students at John Fiske Elementary School were asked by their music teacher to research controversial Chicago rapper Chief Keef, who is known more for his lengthy arrest record than his album sales.
Grammy Award winning artist Frank Ocean went after leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in a social media screed soon after that Islamic terror attacks in Paris, and accused the real estate mogul of giving his “NRA-loving constituency a hand job.”
ISIS has taken responsibility for the horrifying attacks in Paris that have left more than 150 dead and hundreds wounded. French President Francois Hollande is calling for the closure of his country’s borders. President Barack Obama didn’t condemn Islamic radicals for the attacks, but he did call them “an outrageous attempt to terrorize innocent civilians” and “an attack on all of humanity and the universal values we share.”
While promoting his new film “Chi-Raq,” a satirical take on the gang violence in Chicago, Spike Lee told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that he’s “all for Black Lives Matter,” but “we as a people can’t be blind to” black-on-black crime.
Black Lives Matter leader DeRay McKesson lashed out at The View co-host Raven-Symonè for making “deeply problematic and uninformed” comments on race and at CNN host Don Lemon for being “unnuanced” and “disconnected” from stories involving the supposed oppression of black people.
America is again engulfed in a barrage of grievance-driven tumult brought to us by victim-focused racial identity demagogues, who have long-preferred theatricality over reality. Although the flood of media attention on purported incidences of racism at the University of Missouri has forced the school’s president to resign, it also overshadowed another vexing social malady.
In an interview with CNN, University of Missouri-Columbia Student Association President Payton Head admitted that there hasn’t been a rise in racist events on campus.
Facing a flood of condemnation, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has shifted blame to the Obama administration for the collapse of America’s largest Obamacare co-op, Health Republic.
In an interview to promote his latest album, “MMM,” Forbes’s wealthiest hip-hop artist Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs explained his deep frustrations with President Obama, who Combs claims needs to “Unapologetically spend billions of dollars to uplift black communities.”
Within 24 hours of Republican presidential frontrunner Dr. Ben Carson’s business manager Armstrong Williams’ declaration to Breitbart News Daily that the retired neurosurgeon’s campaign is a “revolution,” a new Quinnipiac poll showed Carson holding a 10-point lead with women over Hillary Clinton, and Carson’s new rap radio ad was scheduled to hit the airwaves.
An NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll of Democrats showed Hillary Clinton struggling to garner support among voters between the ages of 18 and 29.
Much of the electoral rocket fuel that has propelled Dr. Ben Carson to number one in the latest national polls comes courtesy of a bloc of Evangelical voters who support the former neurosurgeon because he tirelessly defends the unborn.
A new survey conducted by the Black Alliance for Educational Options shows a majority of black voters in several states strongly support school choice, and many favor the option to send their children to public charter schools.
