A Mississippi Republican judge has been indicted on an assault charge after striking a mentally disabled man and hurling racial slurs at him last spring at an event in Canton, Miss. The Clarion-Ledger reports: [Madison County] Justice Court Judge Bill Weisenberger turned himself in to the Madison County sheriff Thursday, according to a spokeswoman with […]
Jeb Bush’s digital guru resigned Tuesday amid a firestorm of controversy after the aide’s racially insensitive comments surfaced and threatened to undermine the GOP presidential hopeful’s bid for the White House in 2016, according to the Washington Post. SEE ALSO: Nearly 4,000 Victims In Over 73 Years Of “Racial Terror Lynchings” In Jim Crow South The […]
In a new report that sheds more light on an appalling and painful chapter in U.S. History, the Equal Justice Initiative released a report Tuesday that lists the names of nearly 4,000 Blacks lynched in the Jim Crow South between 1877 and 1950, according to the New York Times. SEE ALSO: Obama, Black Lawmakers Discuss Poverty, […]
Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Chair G. K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) issued a stern rebuke to members of the Republican Party Wednesday after a top leader said members have no intention of working to restore key provisions of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), which was gutted by a Supreme Court decision in 2013. SEE ALSO: Police Blame […]
The White girlfriend of slain 17-year-old Lennon Lacy, who was found in a trailer park, hanging from a swing set, says he was “murdered” and claims that they had been the targets of racial slurs in rural Bladenboro, N.C., the New York Daily News writes, citing a Daily Mail report. Michelle Brimhall, 32, broke her […]
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama opened up recently in an interview with People magazine about their personal experiences with racism in America. SEE ALSO: Eric Holder On Race: ‘We, As A Nation, Have Failed’ In the interview, replete with anecdotes of their challenges, the first couple said their journey from Chicago’s South Side […]
Activist hackers have exposed a bigoted email exchange between Sony Pictures co-chairwoman and a top Hollywood producer, underscoring how America’s racial divide is not just limited to encounters between Blacks and law enforcement. It also extends to the nation’s boardrooms, and business, political and cultural sectors. SEE ALSO: Fla. Professor Resigns After Saying Obama Turning […]
Lawrence Otis Graham, (pictured center) a New York attorney and author, used to assume that money and privilege could insulate people of color from discrimination. He is best known for documenting the lives of the elite. For his 1992 New York Magazine article, “Invisible Man,” he went undercover to work as a busboy in an […]
