Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appointed Tony Perkins to U.S. Commission on International Freedom in May 2018 despite fierce backlash from civil rights groups and anyone who cares about freedom for people of color. Now, Perkins has been tapped to chair the U.S. Commission on International Freedom. He was elected…
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West Virginia Politician Compares LGBTQ Community to KKK
West Virginia State Representative Eric Porterfield is in hot water after he compared the LGBTQ community to the Ku Klux Klan on Feb. 8. The Republican representative made the inflammatory statement after speaking to a reporter regarding an anti-LGBTQ discrimination amendment. Porterfield was a staunch supporter of legislation crafted to…
Angela Rye Questions What it Would be Like Working in Trump's White House
The absence of diversity in the President Trump’s administration has been a subject of ongoing debate. In an interview on Thursday with “The Breakfast Club,” a radio show based in New York City, Angela Rye, an attorney, political commentator and a leader of the Congressional Black Caucus Institute, implied that…
Unite the Right 2 Lost in a Sea of Diverse, Anti-Hate Voices
White supremacists gathering for the Unite the Right 2 rally on Sunday in Washington, D.C., showed up 40 strong. Meanwhile, thousands of people met in the city prepared for a counter-protest. With half of the seven-acre Lafayette park being full of anti-racist groups, they were certainly outnumbered. And the scene…
Black Man Assaulted and Called N-Word Just Days Before a KKK and Neo-Nazis Rally in D.C.
In the nation’s capital, Maxim Smith, who is white, bashed a Black man, Ketchazo Paho, in the head with a bicycle lock. The wound was so deep that he needed 18 stitches. Paho, age 34, said he was driving in Georgetown early Monday morning. He said Smith was on a…
N-word, Swastikas and 'Wite Pride' Painted on BLM Activist's Truck
Symbols of Black Lives Matter and the “Black Panther” movie on Hubert Roberts’ truck made it a target for vandals on Juneteenth in Clio, Mich. The N-word was painted in white on one side, “Wite Pride” on the other side, swastikas spread around, tires slashed and red shoelaces hung from…
KKK Assignment Asks Fifth Graders to Explain Justification of Racism
A fifth grade teacher in South Carolina has been placed on administrative leave after asking her students to provide a justification for the actions of the Ku Klux Klan. Tremain Cooper, an uncle of one of the students who received the assignment, identified the teacher on Facebook as Kerri Roberts,…
Time for All of The Confederate Statues to Come Down
Confederate statues are a rallying point for today’s neo-Nazis and white separatists. President Trump confirmed this by making it a central point of his meltdown in the Trump Tower lobby earlier this week. The difference between George Washington and Robert E. Lee is taught in elementary school history lessons. But…
No Middle Ground for Human Rights at DiversityInc
I saw the president’s press conference live yesterday because I had a premonition that he was going to snap back from what he was apparently forced to read from a teleprompter on Monday. And he did, to a degree that I didn’t anticipate. President Trump said it plain and clear:…
A Message from A Black Girl Raised in Virginia to the Young White Nationalist: Get Your Mind Right
The riots in Charlottesville this past weekend that left three dead has hit a nerve for many people of all ages, including me a millenial who was primarily raised in Northern Virginia. Growing up in the 90s there were times I wanted to avoid history class. I don’t speak about…