Police officers in Prairie View, Texas were shown on video tasing a Texas councilman who was on his knees with his back turned to them outside of his home Saturday. Prairie View police officers were questioning three men about alleged drug activity when Councilman Jonathan Miller, 26, reportedly stepped into the conversation, since the men were guests […]
Yup, people still haven’t learned that blackface just isn’t cool. Black student groups at UCLA are up in arms about a predominantly White fraternity and sorority holding a “Kanye Western”-themed party. According to the student paper, the party-goers dressed in baggy clothes, blackface, and traditional Kardashian-like attire. UCLA students protest after guests wear blackface to […]
Despite some obvious stereotypical jokes at the expense of her Black character, actress Keke Palmer says she's not taking it personally.
The family of Mohamed Bah, who died at the hands of police officers in 2012, is accusing the NYPD of covering up his death.
As charged as America’s political and social landscape is today, it’s no surprise that race is a recurring theme in hip-hop culture. The good folks over at The FADER invited Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller and Long Beach native Vince Staples to have a discussion about race and White people’s involvement in the genre. Mac and Vince […]
If you stand for nothing, you fall for anything, and Roni Dean-Burren wasn’t going to stand for her ninth-grade son taking in erroneous information in his history book. The mom vented on Instagram about a misleading interpretation of history in World Geography by McGraw-Hill Education, according to Buzzfeed. A passage in the textbook, “Patterns of Immigration,” got history all wrong: The […]
A Facebook user who goes by the name of Geris Hilton posted a photo with a Black child, allegedly the son of his co-worker, then…
Back in 2013, a Florida teen also worked on a science project for school and was arrested for it, and she received none of the perks Mohamed did. In fact, she was – and still is – treated much worse.
A judge has delayed the trial of Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old accused of killing nine Black members of Charleston’s Mother Emanuel AME Church in a race-inspired shooting…
http://www.mzshyneka.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/50-cent31.jpg 50 Cent took zero chances when he dumped a consultant he worked with on television projects. The rapper saw a text message that Andrew Jameson sent to a staffer that showed members of the KKK. Although it looks bad, Jameson says that he did not have racist intentions and was actually using the picture […]
He stopped by The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore and dished on his infamous arrest. Larry Wilmore asked, "Be honest, keep it 100. Was it a little cool to be arrested?”
Before Shonda Rhimes introduced Olivia Pope and Annalise Keating to the world, the most popular Black lawyer on TV was Claire Huxtable, male or female. Let that sink in.
