I’ve tried my best to hold my tongue but I guess in actuality it’s time to chime in. I’ve read so many blogs, heard mixed opinions as to the Derrion Albert situation. Its sad to say but in the video I saw only one thing, HATE! Any kind of hate is inexcusable and intolerable. It […]
A lawsuit filed Thursday alleges that while a huge Chicago crowd celebrated the election of the first black U.S. president, some white city police officers committed hate crimes against a black family cheering Barack Obama’s victory from home.The federal lawsuit claims several officers discharged pepper spray on members of a family celebrating Obama’s win outside […]
I was just 19 years old when it happened but by that time I understood the racial dynamics of the United States. June 7 marked the 12th anniversary of the dragging murder of James Byrd, Jr., in Jasper, Texas. On June 7, 1998, three White males wrapped a heavy chain around his ankles, connected the […]
There’s fear on the Lower East Side as police investigate an apparent series of hate crimes. Five women were attacked, police say, and all the victims are Asian, but that’s not the only coincidence. Police say the five assaults on Asian women took place over the last ten days within a nine-block area right near […]
A 25-year-old Florida bicyclist says she has no ‘hate in her heart’ for a man who ran her down in his car while screaming ‘All black people should die.’ She remains in the hospital with significant injuries.
With the recent killing of an Ecuadorian immigrant in New York, our online editor shares his father’s story.
Proof that racism is alive and thriving.Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting ‘Assassinate Obama.’ Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars.
A patron at the Stonewall Inn, a powerful symbol of the gay rights movement since protests over a 1969 police raid there, was tackled to the floor and beaten in an anti-gay bias attack over the weekend, authorities said Monday. Two men were arrested in the early Sunday beating, which came little more than a […]
Kristian, a Staten Island high school student, says four bullies made his life a living hell in the halls of the Staten Island school, calling him a ‘terrorist’ and beating him every chance they got. Kristian is a 16-year-old high school freshman, and he told his father and the police of the constant abuse he endured, […]
A grand jury has indicted a Long Island teenager on a charge of second-degree murder as a hate crime in the stabbing death of an Ecuadoran immigrant this month, according to the indictment, unsealed Thursday in Suffolk County District Court.
Posted by Bossip StaffIt looks like heads might roll at NCSU:The North Carolina NAACP wants North Carolina State University to expel four students accused of painting racist messages about President-elect Obama on campus.School Chancellor James Oblinger held a closed-door meeting Wednesday with NAACP President Rev. William Barber to discuss the graffiti in the campus free […]
<p>April 20th (4/20) has long been associated with marijuana, both marijuana use and marijuana activism. Thousands of Americans will gather on that day at rallies in Boston, Boulder, New York, Santa Cruz, Seattle and other cities. For people who prefer to relax with a joint instead of a beer or martini it’s a time to […]
