News From A Colorful Perspective
Alabama Governor Kay Ivey is the most recent high-ranking government official to be outed for wearing blackface in the past. While at Auburn University, she wore coveralls and had “black paint all over her face” while pretending to search for used cigars on the ground in a skit at the…
The University of Alabama has a long history of racism and segregation on campus, as recently as 2013. In another fumble, the dean of students at the university, Jamie Riley, was fired about Breitbart News published an article about some of Riley’s tweets from 2016 and 2017. Riley, who is…
The Eastern Carver County Schools district, and Chaska High School in particular, can’t seem to get it right. There have been multiple accounts of white students in blackface in the yearbook, at football games and on social media, as well as white students threatening the lives of anyone who attended…
The Illinois megachurch Harvest Bible Chapel has strict bylaws that say: “marriage involves the sacred joining together of one man and one woman in faithful, permanent union” and say that homosexuality and bisexuality are sexual sins. The church doesn’t stop there – women are also not allowed in church positions…
Less than two years ago, Mark Halperin was accused of multiple accounts of sexual harassment and physical assault. Numerous women have come forward and accused Halperin of unwanted touching, inappropriate comments and aggressive behavior toward them. He lost his jobs on TV as a political commentator and an HBO project…
A Rhode Island detention facility Captain Thomas Woodworth intentionally drove his official truck, while in uniform, into a crowd of people protesting outside of the building. They were protesting the detention facility’s cooperation with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). According to CNN, five demonstrators were hospitalized. The event was…
Four Black teenagers were going door-to-door in Wynne, Ark., on August 7 to fundraise for their football team. But it all went horribly awry when they got to the door of Arkansas white woman Jerry Kelly, a white woman who proceeded to yell, curse, and force them to the ground…
Muskegon, Michigan police officer Charles Anderson is on administrative leave after a Black man was touring his home during an open house and found Ku Klux Klan memorabilia. Rob Mathis, an Army veteran and prospective homebuyer posted a photo on Facebook of a framed KKK “application for citizenship” hung on…
Fox News host Tucker Carlson said on his show Tuesday that white supremacy is a “hoax” and not a major concern in the U.S. He’s faced intense backlash, but seemingly not from his network or advertisers, who have remained largely silent on the incident. His comments came just 72 hours…
A photo of seven young white men wearing “Team Mitch” shirts and pretending to choke a cardboard cutout of Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez surfaced on Twitter Monday. Mitch McConnell and the men faced backlash — including from Ocasio-Cortez herself. The photo was originally shared on Instagram with the caption, “break me…
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