In 2009, Michigan Department of Human Services (DHS) state worker Crystal Perry met with her supervisor to discuss why she was overlooked for a promotion. Days later, someone reportedly perched a 5-foot-tall ape on top of her cubicle wall to which Perry responded by filing a lawsuit against the agency charging discrimination. Now, more than three years later, an Ingham County […]
Somebody once said you never realize you have a drinking problem until you run out of wine. Take that alcohol away and that seemingly docile, agreeable individual might show you a surly, aggressive side that you didn’t know existed. I think a lot of people who never thought of themselves as racist felt that way […]
I’m almost certain that Tonya Battle would have been perfectly fine with not having to look after another newborn on her shift. What she wasn’t fine with, though, was the racism that went along with that relief. Last October Battle, a black nurse working in the neonatal intensive care unit at Hurley Medical Center in […]
Comedian Gary Owen takes a funny look at two racially driven stories that have made headlines this week including a story about a black baby who was slapped by a white male on a plane and a black nurse who was not allowed to touch a white baby.
Tom Joyner Morning Show commentator Jacque Reid goes “Inside her Story” with nurse Tonya Battle and her attorney Julie Gafkay in an exclusive interview about Battle’s suit against her employer, the Hurley Medical Center, over being banned from touching a white man’s baby after he requested that no black nurses touch his son. Read the […]
ROME (AP) — Last week it was Silvio Berlusconi who got into hot water for praising Mussolini. This week it’s the former premier’s younger brother who has sparked outrage — by calling an Italian superstar soccer player of African descent the family’s “little black boy.” In a much viewed video clip, Paolo Berlusconi told a […]
Two Hispanic gang members were arrested last Thursday on allegations they had 15 to 20 gang members surround a house owned by an African-American family…
I appreciate Colin Powell’s bold comments about the racism that permeates the Republican Party – I only wish that Powell had decided to unleash his wrath on the GOP during last year’s presidential election. But it’s better late than never – and Powell did the right thing by putting his party on notice. “There’s also […]
It seems like a troubling trend: Racists targeting black women in the media. The recent hate-filled note written to Jemele Hill began this way: “Hell, I don’t like women broadcasters to begin with, yet alone bitch jungle bunnies …this “spear chucker needs to go away.” “Get her outa here before she back-slides into some ebonics […]
Jemele Hill, a young black sports enthusiast and ESPN personality has been guest hosting Colin Cowherd’s show, “The Herd.” Not everyone is happy about Jemele…
When NBC pre-empted Sunday Night Football to broadcast President Barack Obama’s heartfelt address to nation about the tragic massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, racists quickly took to Twitter. “Take that n****r off the tv, we wanna watch football!” one bigot tweeted. “Obama you stupid sand n****r get off my tv,” another racist complained. “Your […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — One student has been expelled and three others are being punished for their roles in a racially charged uproar on a Virginia college campus the night of President Barack Obama‘s re-election, the school said Thursday. They were among approximately 40 students who gathered outside the Minority Student Union at Hampden-Sydney College […]
