News From A Colorful Perspective
In what seems to be an ongoing saga of white people not minding their business, #SidewalkSusie, offensively, interfered with mom, Alyson Laliberte, and her child while the toddler played outside of their Cambridge home. The filmed interaction, which has now gone viral, showed Theresa Lund, a Harvard University-affiliated research executive…
As 911 calls are continually being made to authorities regarding Black people simply existing, a Black man’s experience with racial profiling at Burger King is coming to light. On Tuesday, he filed a $950,000 lawsuit. In November 2015, Emory Ellis, who was homeless at the time, went to a Burger…
On Jan. 16, Accenture (No. 14 on the DiversityInc Top 50 Companies list) opened a new innovation hub in Boston’s Back Bay as part of the company’s accelerated innovation investment in the U.S. As part of the investment, Accenture plans to add 400 highly skilled technology jobs in Boston by…
Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown opened up about his experience with racism growing up in Marietta, Ga., and how he thinks President Donald Trump emboldens racists. In London for Thursday’s NBA game, where the Celtics, the leading team in the Eastern conference, will face the Philadelphia 76ers,Brown spoke of painful…
An estimated 40,000 counter-protesters took to the streets of Boston this weekend to protest hate speech and white supremacy in response to a “free speech” rally that garnered a few dozen attendees. Boston Police Chief William B. Evans said at a news conference, “99.9 percent of the people here were…
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and Boston Mayor Martin Walsh announced they will not participate in Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade after organizers told an LGBT veterans group its members could not march. “If veterans’ groups aren’t allowed to march in that parade for whatever reason, then I’ll probably do something…
Researchers found that ride-sourcing companies are not exempt from practicing racial discrimination. By Sheryl Estrada Uber and Lyft drivers discriminate against Blacks with frequency especially Black males with “African American-sounding names,” according to a new study. The new ride-sourcing phenomenon hasn’t served as a break from the transportation industry’s history…
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court said Black men may be trying to “avoid the recurring indignity of being racially profiled.” By Sheryl Estrada A ruling by The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court indicated when a Black man flees from police he might not be hiding criminal activity, but rather reacting to…
Senator and presidential candidate Lindsey Graham did not hold back when it came to his comments about convicted Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. In fact, he asked President Obama’s administration to consider Tsarnaev an “enemy combatant“: This man, in my view, should be designated as a potential enemy combatant and we…
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