The controversy surrounding Miami Dolphin Richie Incognito‘s alleged racist remarks and bullying to teammate Jonathan Martin is still going strong. Is it apart of the sports culture, or is it stepping over the line? Roland Martin spoke with Charles Barkley to get his thoughts on whether racist talk should be allowed in the locker room. […]
The Guardian columnist Orville Lloyd Douglas reveals in his latest piece that he hates being a Black man and that his skin color is his “personal prison.” He writes: “I can honestly say I hate being a black male. Although black people like to wax poetic about loving their label I hate ‘being black.’ I just […]
The curious details surrounding the death of 19-year-old Detroit woman Renisha McBride continue to emerge in the days since her unfortunate passing. Now with an official autopsy report made available to the public, the family attorney is seeking charges against the White man who fired the shot that killed McBride. SEE ALSO: Â Autopsy: Renisha McBride […]
Diane Harris (pictured), a former beverage supervisor at the Detroit Greektown casino, just hit the jackpot in a HUGE way, but she didn’t gamble and win. Rather, she filed a discrimination suit with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against her employer and was awarded $600,000 on Monday, according to My Fox Detroit. Harris was employed by the casino […]
Community Heroes: an in-depth series on the lives and impact of people giving back to our global communities. Majora Carter Base Of Operations: South Bronx Why she is a Community Hero: As the co-founder and CEO of StartUpBox.SouthBronx, Majora Carter connects communities of color to invest in the growing technology economy as producers of product […]
Say it ain’t so! Was “Real Housewives of Atlanta” co-star Porsha Stewart (pictured) spied by a shopper using a government-issued EBT card at a Kroger food chain? Porsha was allegedly eye-balled swiping the Food Stamps card that is typically utilized by welfare recipients in order to purchase food, according to RumorFix. Stewart, who is still a regular on the top-rated […]
Anytime you preface a statement with “this isn’t racist, but…” chances are it’s just that. Sarah Palin (pictured), who at this point serves no other purpose than to operate as the unsightly cold sore of political discourse, compared the federal debt to slavery while speaking at the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition’s fall fundraiser on Saturday night. […]
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell is using his platform to pay it forward. The statesman donated $5 million to his alma mater, the City College of New York in Harlem. Powell graduated from CCNY in 1958 with a bachelor’s degree in geology. Fifty-five years after the Harlem native graduated from the college, the institution decided […]
Dave Wilson (pictured) is a Houston electrician by trade who has a rep for crusading against anything pro-gay. Now the staunch Republican with Tea Party makings, who has won a seat on his city’s Community Board of Trustees, is being accused of employing deceitful tactics to win voters in his predominantly Black district by pretending to be African American […]
