News From A Colorful Perspective
Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger’s shooting of Black man Botham Jean, after she allegedly mistook his apartment for her own and him as an intruder, has sparked grief and outrage. However, her emotional trial and sentencing have sparked even more controversy. Judge Tammy Kemp is now coming under fire…
Felicity Huffman, one of the most high profile people caught in the biggest college admissions scandal in history, will be sentenced today for her role in it. But she couldn’t let it go without trying to excuse herself for paying $15,000 to boost her daughter’s SAT scores. According to Huffman,…
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,…
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