LaKambria Welch, a Mississippi State University student, posted a video on Saturday of the owners of Boone’s Camp Event Hall explaining that they would not rent their venue to her brother and his wife-to-be because they are an interracial couple. Welch told Deep South Voice that her brother and his white fiancee had been planning their upcoming […]
A white male professor at a historically black Tuskegee University is suing the university and claiming he’s being discriminated against because of his race and age. As reported by USA Today, Marshall Burns, a professor of physics, filed a federal discrimination lawsuit July 19, alleging that despite putting in four-decades of work at the university, he’s not […]
Comedian Gary Owen took to Instagram over the weekend to call out Delta Airlines after his wife and daughter were racially discriminated against by an employee. Owen’s detailed the situation in a video post that received a lot of praise from his followers. Some voiced how they are quite impressed by a white man defending his Black wife. […]
ATLANTA (AP) — A congressional subcommittee is highlighting voting problems in Georgia as possible justification for restoring federal oversight of elections in places with a history of discrimination. Democrat Stacey Abrams, who lost her bid for governor last fall, testified Tuesday at a hearing in Atlanta about myriad issues that she says disenfranchised certain Georgia […]
A Haitian American woman is suing the Italian brand Moschino for racial profiling; claiming her manager at a store in West Hollywood used a racist codename to describe Black customers perceived to be too poor to “afford items in the store.” Former Moschino employee Shamael Lataillade has filed a complaint against the company in California state and named her […]
An Ohio Taco Bell employee has reportedly been fired after he appeared to refuse to serve a hearing-impaired customer. Becky Rosemont Burch shared a now-viral video to her Facebook page on Jan. 2, showing her son, Brandon Washburn, attempting to order and communicate with employees by writing his order on his phone. The employees, however, refused […]
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — White police officers in a Washington, D.C., suburb have used racist slurs, circulated text messages expressing a desire to “reinstitute lynching” and put a black face and Afro wig on a training dummy, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday. Civil rights groups sued Maryland’s Prince George’s County and its […]
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina social club’s decision to deny membership to a doctor who would have been its first black member has prompted several local groups to cut ties with it. Military veteran and doctor Melvin Brown was the only one denied membership to the Charleston Rifle Club in October, The Post […]
In January of this year H&M made headlines for posting a photo of a young black child in a “Coolest Monkey in the Jungle” sweatshirt, which many called racist. Less than a year later the retail giant is at the center of another race-related incident. According to CBS 4 a Miami-area H&M falsely accused a black customer […]
Living while Black.
https://twitter.com/Ourappguy/status/1042064484179816449 Arlene, who reportedly asked that she be identified only by her first name, told Yahoo Lifestyle that she was traveling on a Delta flight from Kentucky to Boston and discovered upon arriving at Boston’s Logan International Airport, that her bag was badly damaged. So she went to the Delta Service desk to file a baggage […]
