News From A Colorful Perspective
LGBTQ is a common acronym that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. But a Northern Kentucky barbecue food truck took the meaning and twisted it to sell merchandise in a move that has been called insensitive and hateful. Belle’s BBQ sold T-shirts that depicted LGBTQ as meaning Liberty,…
The Yard, a historic cultural hub at Howard University in Washington, D.C., is being disrespected by neighborhood gentrifiers who are using it as a spot to walk their dogs or as an outdoor gym, students say. One of the main quads on the campus of Howard, a 152-year-old HBCU, The Yard is the…
Deborah Nash, one of the problematic women from the high-profile “Gardening while Black” infamy, has hired alt-right attorney Kyle Bristow to defend her. Related Story: Marc Peeples Files Lawsuit Against Women Who Called Detroit Police While He Was Gardening Nash, who insists that she is not a racist, came under…
Brandon Lecroy of Greenwood, S.C., was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to hiring someone to murder his Black neighbor. U.S. Judge Bruce Howe Hendricks, who handed Lecroy his sentence, qualified the offense as a federal hate crime. Ten years is the maximum sentence for the…
Some people just love to use other people’s culture to make a profit. Chefs, from the world renown Gordon Ramsay to small town TV food personality Andrew Zimmern, have hijacked Chinese cuisine avowing their restaurant serves “authentic Asian” food. Zimmern went so far as to call traditional Chinese restaurants “horse…
Mark Tice, a Chambers County, Texas commissioner, thinks Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, who is the first woman and first Latina elected as the county’s top executive, is a “joke.” Hidalgo spoke in English and Spanish at a news conference on Monday about a Intercontinental Terminals Co. massive chemical fire….
At a Shop Rite in East Haven, Conn., a racist woman shopping with her two small children is caught on camera spitting on a Black man and woman, repeatedly calling them the N-word and screaming other obscenities. Authorities say she is the one who started the altercation. At one point…
Donald Trump Jr. mocked a news story, which highlighted how air pollution is disproportionately affecting Black and Hispanic communities. Last year, scientists from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a study documenting that Blacks and Hispanics were more likely to be exposed to air pollution, even though whites were more…
Marc Peeples is a devoted, lifelong Detroiter. He is also Black. And in the summer of 2017, three white women, who were not Detroiters, falsely accused Peeples of a multitude of crimes that he didn’t commit. He was arrested, charged and even went to trial based on the lies of…
White House correspondent April Ryan and CNN anchor Don Lemon got into an intense debate over 2020 presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris’ ethnic identity. The debate on CNN Tonight on Monday was a particularly heated one. Lemon seemed to get riled up in reference to Harris’ response to a question…
Get the content you love the most directly in your email inbox.