News From A Colorful Perspective
In 2005, two Toledo, Ohio, firefighters filed a discrimination suit against the city, saying it failed to take action against gender discrimination they experienced on the job. Fourteen years later, a jury decided one firefighter, but not the other, was discriminated against. Pvt. Judi Imhoff received $150,000 related to gender…
The trope of the “strong Black woman” may seem like a positive stereotype, but Black women have reported that the stoicism prescribed to them can take its toll on their mental health. A new study further examines the stereotype’s effect on Black women’s overall health. It found some behaviors protect…
Last year, Boston’s famous Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) made national headlines because it was accused of racism after Black middle school students said they were mistreated by museum staff. A staff member allegedly told the students: “No food, no drink and no watermelon.” That wasn’t the end the debacle. The…
In one instance, a student was told to go back to their country by a teacher. In another, a student said a teacher referred to all Arabs as terrorists. These are just two reports of rampant, ingrained racism that students of color in Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia have…
The video of a woman, dubbed #KuKluxKaren, screaming racial slurs and threats against Black people at a CVS in Los Angeles this week has been viewed over 2 million times and shared over 20,000 times since it was first posted on Sept. 25. In the footage, the woman is seen…
Federal agent Bradford Devlin, a senior supervisor in the Seattle Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), is facing a lawsuit filed by Cheryl Bishop alleging years of racist attacks and discrimination. Devlin has a Nazi tattoo on his arm from years working undercover with…
An investigation is currently underway after a 12-year-old Black girl, Amari Allen, who says that three white sixth-grade classmates held her down, covered her mouth, insulted her and cut several of her dreadlocks with scissors at Immanuel Christian School on Monday. It is the same school where Vice President Mike Pence’s…
Joseph Lynch, a 16-year veteran with the Boston Police Department, has been placed on administrative leave following the department’s internal affairs’ investigation into allegations he directed racial slurs toward Black and Latino students from Roxbury Prep High School at a local McDonald’s. According to the New York Post, Lynch’s assignment…
Disgraced Indianapolis Metro Police Department officer Robert Lawson was charged with a series of three felonies and two misdemeanors including perjury, battery, official misconduct, and other crimes after a two-week investigation proved that the officer lied about assaulting a Black 17-year-old high school student. According to the Indy Star, the unprovoked…
After controversy over whether police should be able to use facial recognition technology, the Board of Police Commissioners in Detroit approved its use but imposed certain limits. Debates surrounding the use of this technology are steeped in both claims of privacy violations and racism. While Detroit police celebrated the move,…
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