News From A Colorful Perspective
Former First Lady Michelle Obama had a subtle response to President Trump’s offensive tweets about Representative Elijah Cummings and the city of Baltimore — part of the district Cummings represents. Obama tweeted a video of a Baltimore-based STEP-dancing team, the Lethal Ladies from 2017. The caption read, “On #NationalDanceDay, I’m shouting…
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) was “disgusted” when an activist raised a question about whether Omar planned to publicly condemn FGM (female genital mutilation). The congresswoman raised the fact that just because she is Muslim, she should not have to comment on issues that other lawmakers are not asked about. Omar…
In the photo, three young white men are posing in the dark in front of the Emmett Till memorial. Two of them have guns on either side of the sign, and the other is kneeling in front of it. All of them are smiling. The three men are Ben LeClere,…
Amy Wax, a Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, is on a bona fide paid vacation following condemnation of her “repugnant” racist views. Wax spoke at a “National Conservatism” conference this month suggesting the country would be “better off with more whites and fewer nonwhites,” saying…
If the United States government were a company and President Trump an employer, his tweet in which he told four congresswomen of color to “go back” to their home countries would constitute as workplace discrimination. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex (D-N.Y.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) were…
(Pictured is Police Commissioner Richard Ross Jr.) Thirteen Philadelphia police officers are going to be fired in the wake of the Plain View Project’s (PVP) June release of over 5,000 offensive and violent Facebook posts from cops across the country. The online database was born out of a 2016 discovery…
The hashtag #RacistPresident trended Monday morning in the wake of President Trump tweeting that the four freshman Democratic Congresswomen of color should “go back” to where they came from. All but one were born in the U.S. Often called “the squad,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Rep. Rashida Tlaib…
Victoria Sutton, a white woman, filed a housing discrimination lawsuit in federal court on Wednesday. The suit accused Patricia and Allen McCoy, a white Georgia couple, of evicting the woman because she invited Black guests to the home she was renting. The lawsuit claimed the landlords, Patricia and Allen McCoy,…
The #JusticeForElijah hashtag trended on Twitter this week after 17-year-old Elijah Al-Amin was fatally stabbed by 27-year-old Michael Paul Adams for listening to rap music Adams found “threatening.” Al-Amin was at a gas station Thursday morning when Adams approached the teen from behind and stabbed him with a pocket knife….
Wesley Michel, a Black software engineer, waited for a disabled friend outside of her apartment building in San Francisco on July 4. As he waited, a white man identified as YouTube executive, Christopher Cukor was caught on video accusing Wesley Michel of trespassing. The intrusive Cukor’s son was with him…
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