Racial Bias

Rev. Jesse Jackson addressed the discrimination claims against Sesame Place by penning a letter to the CEO in hopes of sparking change.

Michelle Obama's brother Craig Robinson is currently pursing a lawsuit after his pre-teen boys were expelled from the University School of Milwaukee in response to a complaint he and his wife made about potential racist stereotyping and bias in their homework assignments.

The white woman who went viral for telling a black couple to “stay in [your] hood” during an encounter in a Brooklyn dog park denied Monday that her comments had any “racial undertones.”

Essentially, one would assume that in addition to educating its’ students, institutions would take immense take pride in protecting those who work for and attend their schools. However, it appears that Indiana University cannot sing this tune, as they are currently under fire for the stance they have taken following the surfacing of racist, sexist, […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday threw out the murder conviction and death sentence for a black man in Mississippi because of a prosecutor’s efforts to keep African Americans off the jury. The defendant already has been tried six times and now could face a seventh trial. The removal of black prospective jurors […]

BOSTON (AP) — A group based in Texas is suing legal journals at Harvard University and New York University over allegations that they illegally give preference to women and racial minorities when selecting editors and the articles they publish. The group, called Faculty, Alumni and Students Opposed to Racial Preferences, filed a federal lawsuit against […]

Although Starbucks is owning up to their mistake and closing down its stores for racial bias training, D.L. is sorry that had to come this. That arresting two Black men for sitting in a café was what it took. He believes, “It’s easy to do the right thing.” Don’t Miss Out! Follow The D.L. Hughley Show […]

4/20/18- Welcome to a new segment called That’s What You On with Damon Williams in the Funny Chair. After two separate Starbucks incidents this week, Damon says they’re closing of 8,000 stores for training is really to teach white people how to treat Black people. But the craziest thing about it is that Black people have to attend […]

4/18/2018- Starbucks announced that it will shut down 8,000 of its stores on May 29 to give their employees racial bias training. Chris heard that all stores will have to play Rick James‘ music and greet customers with, “Welcome to Starbucks. Wakanda Forever.” READ MORE STORIES ON BLACKAMERICAWEB.COM: GET THE HOTTEST STORIES STRAIGHT TO YOUR […]

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge in Chicago is slated to issue a first-in-the-nation ruling Monday about whether law enforcement stings in which suspects are talked into stealing non-existent drugs from non-existent stash houses are racially biased. The ruling could determine whether agencies nationwide curtail their reliance on phony stash-house stings, which date to the […]

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Three hung juries in the case of a white former Oklahoma police officer charged with fatally shooting his daughter’s black boyfriend had one thing in common besides unwillingness to convict: Each had only one African-American juror. Race has been an undercurrent in ex-Tulsa officer Shannon Kepler’s first-degree murder case, which is […]

JACKSON, Ga. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court granted a temporary stay of execution for a Georgia inmate whose attorneys argue that the 59-year-old black man’s death sentence was tainted by a juror’s racial bias. Keith Leroy Tharpe, known as “Bo,” was set to be put to death at 7 p.m. EDT Tuesday at the […]