PITTSBURGH — The Champion sports apparel company has ended its endorsement deal with Pittsburgh Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall over Twitter remarks the player made criticizing people for celebrating the death of Osama bin Laden. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported Friday that Champion “strongly disagreed” with the tweets and ended a new four-year contract the player […]
NEW YORK — Gap Inc. has ousted Patrick Robinson, the design director for its namesake brand. The announcement Thursday came as the clothing seller cut its first-quarter earnings outlook. The company, based in San Francisco, says it is searching for a successor. Pam Wallack, who became head of the newly established Gap Creative Center three […]
America, as a nearly 20-year professional journalist, it is with the utmost sadness that I offer to you a heartfelt and sincere apology for my industry’s creation and spectacle of the individual we all know — some love and others despise — as Donald John Trump Sr. For the last two decades, my beloved media […]
Recent census data once again shows that African-Americans have the highest percentage of unmarried women
MEXICO-AÂ Univiosn skit that aired on Mexican television a year and half ago has gone viral due to its racist content. In the skit an African foreign exchange student is mocked as a monkey, told he was a shadow, that his mother used shoe shine grease on his skin and has his lips and mouth […]
SOUTH CAROLINA – In a recent VH-1 documentary that had rapper 50 Cent find out about his ancestors and family history, a white lady who was a descendant of the white people who owned 50’s ancestors told him about Mongolian slaves who looked like Black people that were taken to America after he asked her […]
CHICAGO — In the wake of initial disappointing ratings for OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, its head, Christina Norman, has abruptly left the 4-month-old channel. The network announced Friday that Peter Liguori, the chief operating officer for Discovery Communications, will take over on an interim basis. His appointment is effective immediately. OWN, which premiered on […]
As the Black unemployment rate continues to be the highest of any ethnic group, an article on The Grio discusses the ways in which Black children are negatively affected by the financial woes of their parents. The Grio reports: In a study of 7,000 households, data showed that Black middle-class children of single mothers who […]
OMAHA, Neb. – Omaha police say they shot a man dressed as a pirate who menaced them with a sword. A police news release says officers encountered 38-year-old Jonathan Martis at a home in southeast Omaha where they had been dispatched to investigate a disturbance Thursday evening. The officers told Martis to drop the sword […]
A program initiated by Chicago Public Schools called “Real Men Read” provides young students with volunteers who read to them. RELATED: Chicago Public School Bans Home Lunches Next Chicago Mayor Faces Weight Of Daley’s Legacy
An article on The Root highlights the career of Alain Dolium, a Black French politician and candidate for France’s National Assembly in 2012. The Root reports: Not surprisingly, some pundits and media have referred to Dolium as the “French Obama.” He rejects the label as a trap, an attempt to reduce his candidacy to his […]
FLORIDA – The NAACP has joined forces with Latino and human rights groups to oppose bills in the Florida senate that would require law enforcement agencies to racially profile. Politic365 reports: These bills “would require law enforcement officials in Florida to engage in racial profiling – an insidious practice all too familiar to racial and […]
