News From A Colorful Perspective
Pennsylvania Senator Michael Folmer was allowed to resign on Wednesday after being accused by police of having child pornography on his phone. Investigators found child pornography on Folmer’s phone while executing a search warrant at his Lebanon, Pennsylvania home, according to CNN. Law enforcement started investigating him after a tip…
Contractors with white ancestry earned $311,000 two years ago — as a minority-owned company, the Los Angeles Times reports. When the St. Louis, Missouri mayor announced the contract the town made with a Native American-owned company to demolish an old shoe factory, the community welcomed it. The area was still…
The Bon Air Fire Company in Haverford Township, Pennsylvania will reopen after finally accepting the resignation of a volunteer firefighter found to be a member of an extremist group, the Proud Boys. Haverford Township shut down the Bon Air Fire Company last week when the company refused to cut ties…
Transgender students in the Pennsylvania Boyertown Area School District are protected for now. They can continue to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity after the Supreme Court decided Tuesday not to hear the case. The conservative Christian Alliance Defending Freedom represented a group of students in the casesaying…
With a new NFL season set to kick off this Thursday, the debate over the national anthem is still a hot topic for the Republicans. Carla Maloney, secretary of the Republican Committee of Beaver County, Penn., has resigned after posting on Facebook an offensive statement where she refers to NFL…
During a road rage incident, Adam Kraus, a white man from Fayetteville, Penn., threatened to lynch two Black people and called them racial slurs while holding a handgun out of his car window. Authorities have charged Kraus with a felony hate crime. The incident occurred the evening of June 30…
Chad Merrill was fatally shot in the chest by another white man after he defended his friend, a Black man, Jerrell Douglas, who was being called the N-word and other racial slurs. At the Red Rose Restaurant and Lounge in Hellam Township, Penn., early Saturday morning, James Saylor, age 24,…
The co-owner of Grandview Golf Club in Pennsylvania called the police two times on five Black women, wanting them removed from the golf course. The women are now filing charges with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Sandra Thompson, 50; Myneca Ojo, 56; Sandra…
This election cycle has brought with it a wave of young blood into the Democratic party. From Iowa to Maine to California to Pennsylvania, a group of young progressives are prime to crash the old white man’s party in D.C. Whether it is a 25-year-old Eagle scout raised by two…
Don’t go shopping. Don’t work out. Don’t drink coffee. Don’t have a barbecue. Don’t use Airbnb. And don’t try to make your community a better place. Perhaps the most ludicrous of the “don’t”s for Black people came about over the weekend when sisters of a historically Black sorority were approached…
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