Typically when advertisers mix racial stereotypes with advertisements for their products, disaster ensues. A new Summer’s Eve advertisement can be perceived as not just racist, but sexist and blatantly tasteless as well. The “Summer’s Eve Hail to the V: Lady Wowza” commercial promotes a women’s cleansing product rather candidly. In the 55 second video, a […]
A Gary, Indiana man is suing a local blood bank for rejecting his blood sample because they thought he was gay. Pace, who is 22 and insists he’s straight, was rejected from giving blood by Bio-Blood Components Inc. in Gary, Ind. According to federal guidelines, gays are prohibited from donating blood dating back to 1983 […]
One of the Yankees few African-American players is not harping on the lack of Blacks in baseball, but asking where the Black fans are at games. Granderson recently challenged his fellow Yankees to count the number of Black people at ballgames. “At first, it starts off as a joke,” Granderson, who hit the second most […]
The teachers and administrators who are alleged to be part of a wide ranging cheating scandal in the Atlanta education system, may have to repay their bonuses. State Rep. Billy Mitchell plans to introduce the bill that would make sure that teachers aren’t “unjustly enriched, while their students are placed in peril.” Read more at […]
WASHINGTON–President Barack Obama is throwing his support behind a bill that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, a federal ban on same-sex marriage. White House spokesman Jay Carney said the president “long called for a legislative appeal for the so-called Defense of Marriage Act which continues to have a real impact on families.” The […]
Close to 60 percent of junior high school and high school students get suspended or expelled in the state of Texas, according to a new report. The study tracked about 1 million Texas children over a six-year period. “The findings in this report should prompt policymakers in Texas and in states everywhere to ask this […]
A Florida woman has taken her search for a kidney match to Craigslist. Selina Hodge, who has been on kidney dialysis for close to four years, has been unable to find a match. She is on a donor waiting list and it could take years before she is matched with someone. Read more at TheGrio […]
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said he will veto conservative Republicans’ “Cut, Cap and Balance” fiscal plan if it makes it to his desk. A statement from the White House rejected the plan, which conditions a debt limit hike on a constitutional amendment that would require the government to balance its books each year. The […]
Civil Rights groups in California are fighting to protect Black representation amid redistricting of the political map. Los Angeles is emerging as an important political zone for minorities in the state. Many civil rights groups opposed the California ballot measures, arguing that the reforms could actually harm communities of color by making it too difficult […]
A Texas man took advantage of a little-known provision in state law and now has a whole neighborhood mad at him. Kenneth Robinson, who many are looking at as either a hero or squatter, recently landed an abandoned home worth $300,000 for $16.00. From Real Estate AOL: Robinson said that the abandoned house is his […]
WASHINGTON — Declaring “11th hour” urgency” to raise the government’s borrowing limit, President Barack Obama on Tuesday hailed a plan by “Gang of Six” senators from both parties to reduce federal deficits as the kind of balanced approach that could break an economy-threatening deadlock. He said it was time for Congress as a whole to […]
NEW YORK — For weeks the media has been abuzz covering the story of Autum Ashante, a 13-year-old whiz kid who was accepted to the University of Connecticut, but later told by the university that her acceptance had been rescinded. Last week, NewsOne reported that Josephine Minnow, a UConn alumna started a petition to get […]
