News From A Colorful Perspective
Last year when Change.org’s petition to stop Goodwill Industries from exploiting its workers with disabilities entered the spotlight, the public was confused as to why an 80-year-old law which allowed the practice still governed an organization claiming to do charitable work. However, Goodwill is not the only so-called charity that…
Two guards who were delegated to monitor Jeffrey Epstein on the night of his alleged suicide were suspended. The warden at the Metropolitan Correctional Center has also been reassigned to Washington D.C. by the Justice Department pending the investigation into his death, according to a story published by BBC. The…
Protestors rallied outside of the Colorado Springs police headquarters Aug. 13 to protest the police shooting of 19-year-old De’Von Bailey. His family is calling for justice through an independent investigation of the incident. A white police officer shot the teen responding to a report of a robbery Aug. 3. Officers…
Five LGBT YouTubers are going against the giant corporation and suing for discrimination against their sexual orientation. According to the federal lawsuit, YouTube and their parent company, Google, are discriminating against them by suppressing their content, restricting their ability to sell advertising and culling their subscribers. The lawsuit also…
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has reached a settlement agreement with Arizona-based company Upper Crust Bakery over a suit involving immigration status discrimination. Upper Crust Bakery, which provides baked goods for companies like Starbucks, Cotsco and Kroger’s discriminated against certain employees by requiring them to provide specific immigration documents to…
“It’s a testament to how we can be there for each other in these times of grief,” Ohio native and famous performer John Legend told a crowd at Blind Bob’s Bar on Sunday night in Dayton after singing “Bridge Over Troubled Water”. Legend sang the song to the gathering of…
Chanting “gun reform now,” ″ El Paso strong” and “aquí estamos y no nos vamos” (Spanish for “here we are and we are not leaving”), over 100 protestors marched through El Paso, Tx. on Saturday after the racially-motivated mass shooting that look nearly two dozen lives last week. The protest…
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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