Get up, a-get-get down, Dallas, Texas, because 911 is definitely a joke in your town. And you have racist — now terminated — operator, April…
PARIS (AP) — The Buddha Bar has fired a waitress for improper behavior toward Olympic champion judoka Teddy Riner, who lashed out about alleged racism at the upscale Paris bar-restaurant. On Facebook, the 24-year-old London Games gold medalist described how he had momentarily left his table one evening to get a better look at a […]
Chelsey Ramer (pictured) is a proud Native American, but when she attached a tribal eagle feather to her graduation mortarboard, she would reportedly not only be denied…
On a regular day in school, Charleston, SC high school student, Imani Herring was approached by a fellow student who asked if she’d seen a…
Papa John’s pizza is doing some serious damage control after one of its employees was caught maligning a customer. The latest incident, which happened Sunday, involves a customer being disparaged with the N-word in Sanford, Florida. After delivering pizzas to the customer and his wife Sunday evening, the Papa John’s employee mistakenly “butt-dialed” the patron […]
I have a confession. I’m an African American and I love fried chicken. I like my chicken with collard greens, and macaroni and cheese. I have white friends who love the same Southern fried combination. They are writers, academics, editors, golfers, truck drivers, doctors, hunters, fishermen, barbecue joint owners and guys who like to watch […]
An Orange, Fla., African-American family were shocked to find a KKK flier (pictured) on their doorstep this week, reports the Orlando Sentinel. SEE ALSO: Henry…
MILAN (AP) — FIFA president Sepp Blatter was “appalled” when he learned of the racist chanting that caused AC Milan’s match against Roma to be suspended. Sunday’s game was stopped for 97 seconds during the second half when visiting Roma supporters would not stop chanting at Milan players Mario Balotelli and Kevin-Prince Boateng. The league […]
It’s not uncommon for businesses to use social media to attract and engage with their customers, but several metro Detroit party stores were caught using it to mock its patrons. Fox 2 News Detroit reports that cellphone photos of Black part store customers with racist comments underneath them began appearing on Instagram. The customers faces are clearly […]
CNN’s John King showed the worst kind of journalism Wednesday when he made controversial racial assumptions and falsely reported on-air that the suspect in the deadly Boston Marathon bombings was a “dark-skinned male.” King was wrong and irresponsible. Law enforcement officials immediately refuted King’s report and, in fact, CBS News reported that the suspect is […]
Southern white men don’t usually drive racial dialogue. For as long as race has riven America, they have been depicted more often as the problem than the solution. So after country music star Brad Paisley released his new song “Accidental Racist” this week, what happened next was hardly surprising: days of widespread criticism about his […]
Country star Brad Paisley’s new single “Accidental Racist,” a duet with LL Cool J on his new album “Wheelhouse,” out today, is making headlines for its lyrical conversation between a white Southerner and black New Yorker about racism. The song caused a flurry of reaction across social media, which exactly what Paisley intended with the […]
