FX is moving some of its popular shows to new sister channel FXX, including its late night offering, “Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell,” which premiered on the mother ship last year. Executive produced by Chris Rock, the show also expands from weekly to nightly, which Bell finds rather liberating. “I think Friday was always […]
A leading human rights group has called on Dunkin’ Donuts to withdraw a “bizarre and racist” advertisement for chocolate donuts that shows a smiling woman in blackface makeup. The Dunkin’ Donuts franchise in Thailand launched a campaign earlier this month for its new “Charcoal Donut,” featuring an image reminiscent of 19th and early 20th century […]
Courthouse News is reporting that singer Johnny Gill has filed a lawsuit in Superior Court against the Four Seasons Beverly Hills. Gill is claiming the hotel didn’t intervene when a drunk white man hurled racial insults at him and beat him so badly he was unable to perform. Specifically, the assault happened two years ago […]
Soulful crooner Johnny Gill (pictured) has reportedly sued the Four Seasons Beverly Hills for allegedly being negligent in protecting him from a drunk White patron.…
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A federal judge signed off Monday on a deal to dismiss a discrimination lawsuit against celebrity cook Paula Deen. A civil lawsuit accusing the former Food Network star and her brother of race discrimination and sexual harassment was officially dismissed when U.S. District Court Judge William T. Moore Jr. in Savannah […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Has the U.S. achieved Martin Luther King Jr.‘s dream of a colorblind society? Fewer than half of all Americans say the country has made substantial progress in the past 50 years toward racial equality, a new poll shows. Despite a heightened sense of racial progress immediately following the 2008 election of the […]
Lee Daniels, the director of “Lee Daniels’ The Butler,” believes America has become more racist since President Barack Obama – the nation’s first black commander-in-chief – took office in 2009. “I think that people are angry that he’s president,” Daniels told Piers Morgan on CNN this week. “And I think that they are showing their […]
A 38-year-old pastor out of Indiana has filed a formal complaint against the Evansville Police Department after he was handcuffed and threatened with a stun gun after he waved hello. George Madison Jr. is a firefighter and youth pastor, who was minding his own business on a Tuesday afternoon, riding his bike, when he decided […]
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The name Brady that adorns a popular downtown street in Tulsa will remain the same but instead of honoring the city’s founder and businessman who was in the Ku Klux Klan it will now celebrate a Civil War photographer who had the same name. The change to remove Wyatt Tate Brady […]
Rev. Al Sharpton talked to the “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show” about some pressing issues in the community including racism. Rev. Al Sharpton says a lot…
Hard-core rapper and reality show star The Game (pictured) is calling on all of his fans to boycott Houston’s restaurant of Pasadena, Calif., after he…
Russell Simmons is the latest victim of social media backlash. A video purported to be Harriet Tubman’s sex tape hit his You Tube channel yesterday and the black social media universe wasted no time letting him know just how much he’d erred. Not only did Black Twitter and just about every other place where black […]
