News From A Colorful Perspective
The Women’s March has cut ties with three founding board members — Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory and Mari Lynn “Bob” Bland — whose reputations have been tainted with claims of anti-Semitism. A press release announces the departure of the three board members and the appointment of 17 new members. It does…
Two white University of Arizona students were finally arrested after a brutal assault on a black student last week at the school. Student protests ensued after Matthew Frazier and Matthew Rawlings were arrested and charged with a mere misdemeanor assault. The two men are students at the university’s business college….
Prospect Park, New Jersey Mayor Mohamed Khairullah was traveling through JFK International Airport last month with his family after a vacation in Turkey. Khairullah, who is Muslim American, told CNN he was detained for three hours and questioned about his travels. He was traveling with his wife, 10-year-old son, 9-year-old…
Harvard University has publicly acknowledged accepting multi-million-dollar donations from the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from 1998 to 2007. Harvard president Lawrence Bacow has condemned Epstein’s actions and said the donations are under review. Epstein pleaded guilty to sex charges in 2008, and the university rejected a proposed gift after…
The uber-wealthy Sackler family attempted to hide about $1 billion by transferring them to overseas banks in order to avoid paying back the victims of the opioid epidemic that they contributed to, the New York attorney general’s office disclosed Friday. The attorney general’s discovery comes after the Sackler family and…
John Weigel, a 58-year-old Navy vetern, is $139,000 deep in medical debt and is feeling suicidal under the weight of the bills. On September 13, he attended a Bernie Sanders town hall at the Carson City community center. He wanted to ask for help. Weigel waved his medical bill in the…
Felicity Huffman was sentenced to 14 days in prison last week for buying her daughter’s way into an elite college as part of the biggest college admission scam in history. On Friday, Huffman’s lawyer tried to get the judge to send her to the Federal Correctional Institution Dublin, a cushy…
Aaron Persky became one of the most hated people in the U.S. for giving Brock Turner, a white Stanford University swimmer, only six months in county jail for violently raping an unconscious girl, Chanel Miller, behind a dumpster on campus in January 2015 at a fraternity party. Turner ended up…
For the first time in U.S. history, people of color, in particular women of color, are the majority of prime working-age hires. “Prime working-age” is between 25 and 54 years old, according to the Washington Post’s analysis of Labor Department data. The department began collecting the data in the 1970s….
Kevin Richardson, one of “The Exonerated Five” was honored at Syracuse University with a benefit reception and the announcement of a scholarship in his name. Richardson was part of a group of Black and Latino teenagers previously called the “Central Park Five:” Korey Wise, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson…
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