News From A Colorful Perspective
Los Angeles Laker LeBron James, who has used his public platform to speak out about social justice issues, was moved by his former Cleveland Cavaliers teammate Kyle Korver’s essay on white privilege. In Korver’s first-person essay, “Privileged,” published in The Players Tribune on Monday, he opened up about the false arrest of former Atlanta Hawks teammate Thabo Sefolosha in New York in…
As white celebrities come under fire for bribing colleges to accept their kids in an education scandal that reminds us how privilege has pushed certain teens ahead in life and cheated others in terms of educational opportunity, Dylan Chidick, 17, of Jersey City, N.J. shows that the rules don’t need…
Two Black sisters in North Carolina were harassed standing outside of their apartment building by a white woman who couldn’t believe they could afford to live there, in her perceived “white space.” Leisa and Chele Garris, residents of Camden Fairview Apartments in SouthPark in Charlotte, were waiting for AAA to…
Justin Schneider, 34, pleaded guilty to strangling a woman and masturbating on her in Aug. 2017. According to police reports in Alaska, Schneider, 34, lured a woman into his car, strangled her to the point of unconsciousness, masturbated on her, and insisted that he only threatened to kill her so…
Lisa Benson Cooper, a Black TV reporter, was fired from her job for making her white female colleagues feel uncomfortable about their privilege. Ruby Hamad, author of The Guardian article, “How white women use strategic tears to silence women of colour,” heard that Cooper was suspended, then fired, for sharing…
Since the preseason opener for the Miami Dolphins, where three players, Albert Wilson, Kenny Stills, and Robert Quinn, kneeled/raised fists during the national anthem, the protests have been met with criticism from local police. The Broward County PBA and the Palm Beach County Police Benevolent Association urged its members on…
Alison Ettel, now known as “Permit Patty,” followed in the footsteps of “BBQ Becky.” After a video went viral of her calling police on a Black child because she was “illegally selling water without a permit,” Twitter flooded her business account with “shame on you” backlash. Ettel, 44 and a…
Another case of big business and police perpetuating racism on the job. Dr. Covey Banks and her family, on an Orlando vacation, were swimming in the Omni Hotel pool, until a member of the Clampett family, a white woman, instructed her daughter to pee in the pool, splash the family,…
There was one more red carpet for Harvey to walk down. At 7:30 this morning, the alleged rapist walked into a Lower Manhattan police station surrounded by cameras flashing and reporters shouting his name. The white male millionaire Hollywood film mogul was accused of sexual assault for the first time…
In the aftermath of the racist incident in a Philadelphia Starbucks store, the company is going to close 8,000 Starbucks stores on May 29th for hastily prepared diversity training. It’s a mistake. If there was a problem with the temperature of the milk used to put in coffee, it would…
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