While a recent report found only 1.3 percent of around 70,000 Burning Man festival-goers identify as black, its founder Larry Harvey has drawn his own conclusions centered on “historical issues” to explain the lack of diversity.
A poet who slaved away for years but received nothing but rejection letters from publishers decided to change his name to an ethnic Asian-sounding name to see if that would turn the trick to get him published. The ethnic pseudonym worked, but once poetry fans found out about the name change, controversy ensued.
The Texas high school football players under investigation for blindsiding a referee during a game last week say the official made racial comments to them before they attacked him.
A pair of white teens were viciously attacked by a large group of black youths after a fireworks display at a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania festival on Sunday evening, authorities report.
After beating a white victim and trying to steal his car, an armed African American car thief in Detroit reportedly told a black bystander that he didn’t have anything to worry about because, the thief proclaimed, he “only robs white
Professors at Washington State University warned students in their syllabi not to say the words “illegal aliens,” “illegals,” or to refer to men and women as males and females. One professor also warned students to “defer to the experiences of people of color” while mocking “insensitive whites” like Glenn Beck.
Two days ago, Taylor Swift released a new video for her song Wildest Dreams. It’s been viewed upwards of 15 million times.
Canada’s most widely read newspaper, The Toronto Star, is lamenting the lack of racial crime statistics aggregated by various levels of government. Over two decades ago, the newspaper was instrumental in facilitating outrage from the left over a revelation that police in Toronto were collecting statistics about race and crime.
On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7PM to 10PM EST, host and Breitbart Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon will be discussing the most important news stories of the week. Bannon will be discussing the ongoing movement to bring new, conservative leadership to Congress, the BlackLivesMatter movement, and much more.
On MSNBC’s Saturday show “Melissa Harris-Perry,” associate professor of History and director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut Jelani Cobb explained that the problems in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina are equivalent to the
While reflecting on Hurricane Katrina on MSNBC’s “Up with Steve Kornacki” on Saturday, Arise 360’s Lola Ogunnaike declared that if the “people on the ground in New Orleans would have been white” the response to Hurricane Katrina “would have been different.”
During Saturday’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC, host Melissa Harris-Perry and University of Connecticut professor Jelani Cobb discussed Hurricane Katrina and the perception of African-Americans in America. Harris-Perry stated that she noticed people in New Orleans during Katrina wrapped themselves in
A judge has ordered embattled ‘Django’ actress Daniele Watts and her chef boyfriend Brian James Lucas to 15 days of community labor and two years of probation after finding both letters of apology she was ordered to write to LAPD Sgt. Jim Parker “insincere and passive aggressive.”
During the reporting of the murders in a black church in Charleston, the assumed racist motive of the shooter, white man Dylann Roof, was immediately the talk of the media. But now, after an African American murdered two white former co-workers and then released a 23-page, race-tinged manifesto, some in the media are suddenly squeamish about reporting the race-based motives of the killer.
With Milo Yiannopoulos’ shocking report that Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King is in fact white – according to Yiannopoulos, quoting blogger Vicki Page, “King is white and has been lying about his ethnicity for years” – taboo questions now arise about the nature of race in America.
A pair of Democrat congressmen are demanding that the Washington, D.C., City Council prevent Donald Trump from putting his name on a new D.C. hotel because, they assert, the Trump name is now synonymous with “racist” and should be kept from the public eye.
The conflict between a national group of black ministers and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is heating up over the pastors’ call for the removal of a bust and all images of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger –
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.”
The archbishop went on to explain that while nearly all Catholic dioceses in the United States – including his own – spend far more time and talent on providing social services to the poor rather than on opposing abortion, the fact remains that “children need to survive the womb before they can have needs like food, shelter, immigration counseling and good health care.”
Stephen A. Smith once again attacked Philadelphia Eagles coach Chip Kelly and his defenders “who may not share” his “skin pigmentation” on Thursday’s “First Take” on ESPN2 and said, “Y’all are getting on my damn nerves.” Smith over the last few months has
Django Unchained actress Daniele Watts and her boyfriend penned a court-ordered apology letter to the officers she accused of racism last year after the two were found being overly affectionate in a public parking lot.
From 2007 to 2014, less than one-third of the speaking parts in the most popular films were given to women, and aside from a few isolated pictures, film roles are still dominated by straight, young, white males, according to a new study.
Latinos probably do clean some of Donald Trump’s toilets, especially at the Trump Towers in Rio, or at the Punta Del Este resort in Uruguay. But all things considered, it’s fair to say that Kelly Osbourne’s Latino comment wasn’t actually wrong
ESPN NFL reporter Sal Paolantonio spoke on Tuesday’s ESPN Radio show “Mike and Mike” about the situation with Philadelphia Eagles head coach Chip Kelly being labeled a racist by former players LeSean McCoy and Brandon Boykin and former assistant coach Tra Thomas, as well as ESPN’s
MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry spoke Saturday on her show about African-Americans fear police officers at this time after recent deaths of blacks at the hands of police officers such as Sandra Bland and Samuel DuBose. Harris-Perry first pointed out that nobody should be killed for not
Oscar-nominated actress Salma Hayek sounded off on the “big problem” of racism in America during an interview for an upcoming film this week.
Last week, Hulk Hogan’s entire world was turned upside down when a video of the wrestler indulging a race-tinged tirade went public.
In rarely seen angle on the Black Lives Matter mob takeover of a NetRoots Nation Presidential Town Hall last weekend in Phoenix, Arizona, activists from the group scream explicit calls for violence and chaos, using an Occupy Wall Street style call-and-response technique to advocate “burn everything down,” “shut this shit down,” and “rise the fuck up.”
Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, president of Senate Conservatives Fund, participated in a a panel Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” along with former South Carolina State Representative Bakari Sellers and addressed the resentment aimed at the saying “black
It was initially believed that ESPN Radio host Colin Cowherd, who is unofficially set to join Fox Sports, would end his tenure at ESPN on next Friday. ESPN, however, decided to go ahead and let him go immediately following a social media
Global wrestling superstar and reality TV dad Hulk Hogan has been erased from the website of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) following the release of a transcript of a racist tirade made by the 12-time world champion. Fox News reports that
Breitbart News reported Thursday that on numerous occasions the left-wing cable news network CNN falsely smeared the African country of Kenya as a “hot bed of terrorism.” After a backlash in social media where some accused CNN of racism, the
For nearly six weeks, CNN has used every opportunity to rake Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump over the coals for comments he made while characterizing the people Mexico encourages to sneak into America. Proving again just what a terribly-run, and
Rapper 50 Cent called telecom giant AT&T “racist” in a series of Instagram posts over the weekend for threatening to pull premium cable channel Starz, and by extension, his television show Power, off of the network’s U-Verse service.
At last week’s annual NAACP convention in Philadelphia, one pastor protested the group’s support for legal abortion, using a huge, attention-grabbing poster of the confederate flag side by side with the picture of an aborted child.
