Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) refused to apologize Tuesday for comments she made a day earlier, saying that Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker is “really tightening the noose, literally, around African-Americans.”
Democrat Rep. Gwen Moore accuses Wisconsin Governor and Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker of supporting policies that are “tightening the noose, literally” around the necks of African-Americans, the Journal Sentinel reports.
Lisa Johnson, along with ten other African-American women are at the center of a social media firestorm.They were escorted off the Napa Valley Wine Train Saturday, and into police custody, after management said they “received complaints” about too much noise.
Lynnette “Diamond” Hardaway and Rochelle “Silk” Richardson, the “Stump for Trump” girls, joined CNN’s Don Lemon after Donald Trump’s 20,000-plus Alabama rally on Friday to say that black lives would be better if Trump were president.
The outspoken minister at West Angeles Church of God in Christ, Jonathan Gentry, came out swinging Saturday on Black Lives Matter, asking the group: “Why are you not cleaning up your own community if black lives matter?”
When asked, an overwhelming majority of black people said they prefer the phrase “all lives matter” to “black lives matter,” according to a recently released Rasmussen poll.
Atalanta-based Grammy Award winner Rapper T.I., aka Clifford Harris, owes a grand total of $4,570,759.86 in unpaid taxes, the Daily Mail reports, despite supporting President Obama, who has increased several taxes on wealthy Americans.
President and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) Harry C. Alford is calling President Obama and the Department of Labor’s proposal for regulatory financial advisers “harmful” to many in that marketplace.
Shaun King’s confession about not knowing, or not wanting to know, the true identity of his biological father raised more questions than it answered.
The Leader of the Black Lives Matter movement, 35-year-old Shaun King, has not directly addressed questions about his ethnicity after a Breitbart News report revealed that he is a white man despite claiming for years that he is black or biracial. While masquerading as
Allowing illegal alien “anchor babies” instant citizenship perverts the historical intent of the 14th Amendment and disparages the history of the black slaves it was originally intended to protect.
MSNBC host and frequent Obama White House guest Al Sharpton gathered dozens of black pastors over the weekend ahead of the launch of his campaign in support of the Iran nuclear agreement.
There exists among far too many Americans an almost soul-deep determination to treat black people as perpetual victims. A rather absurd example of this sad song was recently written by Washington Post guest writer Raha Jorjani.
Former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon and top-tier Republican presidential contender Dr. Ben Carson appeared on Fox News Channel’s “Your World” Wednesday and said Planned Parenthood puts “most of their clinics in black neighborhoods” so they can “control that population.”
Shreveport, Louisiana, Police Chief Willie Shaw had some harsh words for the “naysayers” spewing “negativity” about America’s law enforcement officers.
The Black Lives Matter movement, which is painfully impotent before Black America, has led a year of national acrimony over the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Freddie Grey. The opportunity for blacks to be brutally honest with ourselves about the corrosive culture of crime and death in our own communities has been hijacked by a horde of sniveling, self-absorbed egotists.
A scene that saw “Black Lives Matter” protesters chanting “We ready for war” and taunting the police quickly turned to gunfire in Ferguson, Missouri Sunday night at the one-year anniversary protest of Michael Brown’s death.
When Ebony Magazines’s senior digital editor Jamilah Lemieux reduced RNC deputy press secretary Raffi Williams to his race (she called him white) and compared conservatives to a “house full of roaches,” she was demonstrating a toxic brand of reflexive scorn that too
Coming in at almost $1 trillion, and after three years of legislative delays, Congress has passed a farm bill. President Obama is expected to sign the farm bill into law at Michigan State University Friday. A key takeaway from the
Refuting Florida Senator Marco Rubio’s argument that marriage is the, “greatest tool to lift people, to lift children and families from poverty,” Think Progress writer Bryce Covert claimed that widening access to early sex education, contraception, and family planning methods are
Researchers from San Francisco State University have found that people subliminally associate “successful black people” with having lighter skin based on cultural stereotypes that liken darker skin with ignorance and negativity. Lead researcher Dr. Ben-Zeev submits that, “racial prejudices and stereotypes
President Obama’s support among young Americans ages 18 to 29 has plunged from 61 percent in December 2012 to last month’s low of 46 percent. A survey by Harvard University’s Institute of Politics found that 57 percent of young people
The Republican National Committee released a statement Friday, commemorating Kwanzaa. There’s just one problem, the entire holiday is a fake and was invented out of thin air by a radical ex-con named Ron Karenga. Karenga invented Kwanzaa in 1966 and fashioned
If Phil Robertson thinks he’s seen the worst parts of media hysteria over his gay remarks, he’s got another thing coming because there are few media reactions more absurd than those fueled by black victimhood. A Huffington Post headline reads,
During a campaign coffee social at George Mason University, Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe was asked his stance on abortion and said, “I would support stopping any restrictions.” McAuliffe, who has avoided explaining his position on abortion in the past did not shy
In a diary obtained by the New York Post, Robert F. Kennedy tears into Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson saying they both, “give me the creeps.” “Al Sharpton has done more damage to the black cause than [segregationist Alabama Gov.] George Wallace. He
Ball State University students Matthew Smith and Caleb Hoagland held an on-campus protest urging the closing of Guantanamo Bay. Smith, dressed in military garb, waterboarded Hoagland who was wearing an orange jumpsuit similar to the ones worn by Guantanamo
When the question of why America’s sole black senator Tim Scott (R-SC) was not invited to speak at the events commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the march on Washington, USA Today columnist DeWayne Wickham smugly asked, “And he should have been
After the outcry following the not guilty verdict of George Zimmerman, most of the loudest voices among the so-called leaders of the black community remain silent on the subject of black-on-black crime. I tackle this issue today in the Atlanta
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) senior official Lois Lerner, the director of the division that targeted Tea Party groups is being represented by William Taylor of Zuckerman Spaeder, a law firm that is closely connected to the Obama White House. The
When it comes to the accused mass murderer Kermit Gosnell, here’s a headline you might have missed: “Doctor From Hell…Or Godsend.” Today, a Philadelphia jury continues its deliberations in the case of Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortionist charged with multiple counts of
Sex has gone from being private to public. Put simply, one’s sexuality can confer social validation. Entire industries now spin on an axis of homosexual activism (think gay marriage movement). Being gay is an identity, and, like blackness or feminism,
In another promotional ad for her weekend show, Melissa Harris-Perry doubled down on dumb: “My father grew up in the Jim Crow south. And he would give me birthday cards, and instead of signing them ‘Love, Daddy,’ always signed them,
Syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer said of yesterday’s bombing, “What strikes me is part of the reason for the psychological shock is that if you think about it, Bret, this is the first successful bombing — terror
Senator Rand Paul’s appearance yesterday at Howard University (a.k.a “Mecca”), was gutsy and surprising. But what was not surprising was the wall of doubt and indifference that separated Sen. Paul and the crowd of mostly black students. Sen. Paul said
In a one hour special, Fox News’ Sean Hannity hosted a studio audience of outspoken black conservatives including renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson who said, “As a brain surgeon, I don’t tend to see race and talk about race a
In his Easter sermon today, Rev. Luis Leon said, “It drives me crazy when the captains of the religious right are always calling us back … for blacks to be back in the back of the bus … for women to be
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, recently released television ads featuring the family members of children killed in the December massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. The ads call for tougher
Rush Limbaugh said on his radio program yesterday that he was left “viscerally sad” and “depressed” after hearing MSNBC host, Touré, call Dr. Ben Carson the GOP’s “black friend.” “But when I saw this last night, I have to tell
Recently, American University Professor Deen Freelon tweeted that Dr. Ben is “the right wing go-to black token.” This sort of rhetoric is hateful. It’s hurtful, counterproductive and intellectually weak. Professor Deen Freelon’s statement is disgusting, dreary and predictable. The Left hates