Whites in the United States approve of police officers hitting men in significantly greater numbers than Blacks and Hispanics do according to a new study, reports Newsday. Is anyone surprised given that whites probably are not hit as much as Blacks or Hispanics? Newsday reports that about seven of ten whites, or 70 percent “can imagine […]
On Monday, April 6, Dr. Cornel West and Carl Dix, co-initiators of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, will discuss police brutality against unarmed people at Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew in New York, NY. The emergency meeting was called to address the need for people to gather for a national mass shutdown held by the […]
For nine years, a Florida woman has been helping families in need celebrate Easter by distributing colorful homemade baskets filled to the brim with a mix of stuffed animals, books, crayons, candy, and other goodies, reports the Huffington Post. This year, Lee Hardy of Palmetto, Florida, created about 600 baskets that she began distributing just before […]
The University of South Carolina has been added to the growing list of campuses in the news for racial incidents, after a student was suspended for using the word “n*gger” on social media, the New York Daily News reports. The unidentified student posted a photo featuring “Reasons Why USC Wifi Blows” and used the racial slur alongside other reasons […]
We may be praising Indian-American actress Mindy Kaling for breaking barriers as a woman of color in Hollywood, but it’s her older and estranged brother’s antics that has many shaking their heads. Vijay Chokal-Ingam made headlines last week after he claimed he posed as an African-American man to get into medical school back in 1998 […]
A Black University of Kentucky basketball player found himself apologizing after a hot mic picked up his “poor choice of words” towards his White opponent during a post-NCAA Final Four game press conference Saturday. Kentucky guard Andrew Harrison was caught calling his opponent, Wisconsin’s Frank Kaminsky, the N-word after a reporter questioned the panel of Wildcats about the […]
Meet Harold Ekeh, the high school senior who was accepted into all 8 Ivy League schools! http://t.co/zAOGzxJGHr pic.twitter.com/qGbS4vRT0V — Sons & Brothers (@sonsandbros) April 5, 2015 A teen from Nigeria has a tough decision to make now that he’s been accepted to all of the Ivy League schools in the United States, CNN Money reports. Harold […]
While defending his administration’s framework for a nuclear deal with Iran, President Barack Obama spoke to the New York Times about his so-called “Obama doctrine,” the principle that guides his foreign policy in the Middle East and Cuba, where the U.S. recently relaxed long-standing travel restrictions, reports the Huffington Post. The U.S. is powerful enough […]
The suspected mastermind in the Al-Shabab attack at Garissa University College that killed over 100 students is the son of a government official, CNN reports. Several reports from the Interior Ministry named Mohamed Mohamud as the person of interest in the attack. Mohamud, who also goes by “Dulyadin” and “Gamadhere,” is the son of Abdullahi Daqare, a government chief in Mandera […]
After being hospitalized last week to receive treatment for diabetes, Mumia Abu-Jamal has returned to prison. The 60-year-old, who was convicted of killing a cop in Philadelphia 34 years ago, spent two days in the ICU after passing out. He returned to the State Correctional Institution-Mahanoy on Wednesday. Although he was well enough to return […]
Police are said to be in the early stages of an investigation after a New Jersey man claimed he was robbed at gunpoint by rapper DMX and his entourage early Sunday, NBC New York reports. The 21-year-old man alleges that DMX identified himself during the encounter at an Exxon station in Newark, telling police that […]
