Racism

Kenneth Chamberlain was shot and killed by police after being zapped with a stun gun during a conflict in his White Plains, New York, apartment last November. SEE ALSO: Did The KKK Assassinate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The police claimed that they acted in self-defense after the 68-year-old former Marine and corrections officer came […]

Jessica Elizabeth, a bartender at an exclusive nightclub in Chicago called “Proof,” was given the boot because she used her Facebook page to rant incessantly about Blacks, reports The Huffington Post. SEE ALSO: California Court Upholds Affirmative Action Ban, Again! On the social media site, Elizabeth would reportedly start conversations  with complaints, such as “wow […]

Should I be surprised that a man whose name is as synonymous with racism as the sky is blue wants to defuse frank conversations about race as it relates to the killing of Trayvon Martin? RELATED: Trayvon Cartoon Causes Uproar At UNC-Chapel Hill No, but Rush Limbaugh’s (pictured) transparency doesn’t make his defense of Martin’s […]

There are few people on this earth that I love more than Abena Agyeman-Fisher, the Senior Editor at NewsOne.  A consummate professional and arguably the leading online journalist in the country, Abena is never someone I would accuse of being a liar.  But this morning, after rolling out of bed and sitting at my desk […]

Trayvon Martin’s death proved, once again, that we Black men cannot feel safe living in our own brown skin. Or in Trayvon’s case, a hoodie. SEE ALSO: Send NewsOne Your Hoodie Photos! Miami Heat Don Hoodies For Trayvon Martin No matter our professional prowess, academic pedigree or legal citizenship, we cannot feel safe walking the […]

On Thursday morning, John Hood, president of the ultra-conservative North Carolina think tank the John Locke Foundation, sent out an apology via his Facebook page for a racially charged picture that was posted Monday on its official blog “The Meck Deck.”  The controversial image (pictured) depicted Obama lounging on the grass, dressed in S&M chains, leather, and […]

The small town of Waxhaw in North Carolina finds itself on the map after the release of a racially insensitive letter (pictured) sent home to a local elementary school’s student body. Western Union Elementary School officials made an erroneous choice of sending home a letter that urged students to wear “African American attire” for a Black […]

A black ninth-grader in Fairfax Country, Virginia was reading a Langston Hughes poem in class when his teacher instructed him to read it blacker, The Washington Post reports. SEE ALSO: Southern Miss Apologizes For “Green Card” Chant Strip Club Donation To Lennox Little League: $1,200 To Let The Game Go On (VIDEOS) Philip Ward Charged […]

Playing on the word renege, which means to go back on a promise, undertaking, or contract, according to Merriam-Webster, the ever-hateful anti-Obama masses seem to have come up with yet another way to disparage not only the President, but also African Americans. SEE ALSO: 44 Years Later Memphis Finally Renames Street After Dr. King Circulating […]

Since there is prejudice toward Blacks, is it  that hard to believe that this bias extends to the canine world too? According to proponents of “Black Dog Syndrome” (BDS), pet lovers are reportedly passing up Black dogs at pounds and shelters and choosing lighter colored canines, causing Black dogs to be euthanized at alarming rates. […]

Oxford University researchers have found that a commonly used heart disease drug may have an subconscious affect on altering racist attitudes. SEE ALSO: FDA Issues Skin Bleaching Warning In a test of volunteers who took the beta-blocker propranolol, results showed that were less racially biased than subjects who took a placebo. Two groups of 18 […]

A new study has found that listening to mainstream rock music from artists such as Bruce Springsteen and the White Stripes made white students more apt to look out for the interests of other whites rather those of blacks and Latinos. SEE ALSO: China’s Female Tycoons However, white students who listened to Top 40 pop […]