News From A Colorful Perspective
Darcy Krueger, 17, was turned away from the Tampa Bay Homeschool Homecoming Dance last month for wearing a jumpsuit instead of a dress. The teen, donning a black evening jumpsuit and strappy silver heels, traveled nearly an hour from her home in Lakeland to the Orlo House and Ballroom in…
Renee Greeley, a teacher at the Drexel Hill Middle School in Upper Darby, Penn., was caught on video in the midst of a racist rant after she got into a fender bender in the parking lot with a Black parent, Rasheed Noel. The incident occurred Oct. 10, and Noel posted…
The internet was abuzz Wednesday over the reported market price haircut Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) received last month. The Washington Times, a conservative outlet, reported Wednesday that Ocasio-Cortez spent nearly $300 at Last Tangle In Washington Salon, breaking that down into an $80 haircut and $180 lowlights (and factoring in…
Then-Georgia Officer Zechariah Presley shot Tony Green, 33, in coastal Camden County near the Georgia-Florida state line on the night of June 20, 2018. Presley was following Green’s car because he thought that he was driving on a suspended license — it’s not clear why he thought that — when…
In a major victory for the disabled community, the Supreme Court has dismissed Domino’s appeal to throw out a ruling that would force the pizza chain to make its website and app accessible for people with disabilities. Three years ago, a blind customer, Guillermo Robles, attempted to order a pizza….
Joshua Brown was key to convicting Dallas police officer Amber Guyger of murder. On Friday night, he was found shot to death just 10 days after testifying for the defense, a lawyer representing Botham Jean’s family reportedly said. Brown lived in the same apartment complex as Guyger and the unarmed…
Abrahm DeVine, 23, is a championship swimmer. He has been a two-time member of the U.S. national team at the world championships and the Pac-12 swimmer of the year in 2018, according to the Washington Post. But in an Instagram post he shared this week, he said that he was…
Last week, District Judge Robert Jonker in Grand Rapids, Mich., ruled that religious-based adoption agencies that contract with the state can turn away LGBT couples looking to adopt a child, the Associated Press reported. The preliminary injunction that Jonker issued blocked Democratic state Attorney General Dana Nessel’s effort to forbid…
The video of a woman, dubbed #KuKluxKaren, screaming racial slurs and threats against Black people at a CVS in Los Angeles this week has been viewed over 2 million times and shared over 20,000 times since it was first posted on Sept. 25. In the footage, the woman is seen…
Federal agent Bradford Devlin, a senior supervisor in the Seattle Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), is facing a lawsuit filed by Cheryl Bishop alleging years of racist attacks and discrimination. Devlin has a Nazi tattoo on his arm from years working undercover with…
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