Arrested at 17, Carlos Montero has been in Riker’s Island for 7 years without being convicted http://t.co/aMP8eaWNs0 via @dailykos — JoeInWV (@wvjoe911) June 16, 2015 A 24-year-old Manhattan man has spent nearly seven years in New York City’s Rikers Island jail awaiting trial, a jaw-dropping record for pretrial incarceration that is unlikely to end soon, […]
As the strange tale of outed Black impostor and now former NAACP official Rachel Dolezal continues to unravel, details of the great lengths Dolezal
Settlement reached in case of unarmed black woman killed by homeowner on his porch http://t.co/B8R3tl5p0F — Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) June 15, 2015 The family of
In a 10-minute-long Today Show interview Tuesday morning, the former president of the Spokane, Wash. chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored…
While speaking at his high school alma mater’s graduation Sunday, comedic great Dave Chappelle referenced Rachel Dolezal and why he won’t make any jokes about the White woman who identified as Black for over a decade. The comedian spoke about the now former NAACP Spokane president during his commencement speech at Duke Ellington School of the Arts […]
Rachel Dolezal, the embattled former president of the NAACP’s Spokane, Washington chapter, who is accused of lying about her race, told NBC’s Today show this morning:…
As the controversy continues to spiral out of control over her racial identity, a meeting has been postponed for Rachel Dolezal, the embattled head of
After pretending to be black for quite some time, Rachel Dolezal will be addressing the controversy for the first time on Monday night. The executive committee of the NAACP will also be making a statement. People reports: The executive committee of the NAACP branch in Spokane, Washington, where Dolezal is president, will also release a […]
Will the real Rachel Dolezal please stand up? News broke yesterday that Rachel Dolezal, president of the NAACP’s Spokane, Washington chapter, has been misidentifying herself as an African-American woman. After claiming she was the victim of a hate crime, Rachel’s identity came under fire while being interviewed for a local newscast. According to Rachel’s birth parents […]
African-American students are paying a big price when it comes to achieving higher education; according to a new report, Blacks acquire the most student loan debt. The National…
One of the women who allegedly began the racially-motivated altercation at the McKinney, Texas pool party has been suspended from her job, according to the Daily Kos. Tracey Carver-Allbritton, one of the women seen fighting Tatyana Rhodes during the McKinney pool party, was placed on administrative leave by her employer, Core Logic Inc. Allbritton was one of […]
Emmy contenders Taraji P. Henson and Viola Davis spoke on how they’ve managed to handle race and sexism in Hollywood with The Hollywood Reporter. The actresses were joined by Ruth Wilson (The Affair), Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Honourable Woman), Jessica Lange (American Horror Story: Freak Show) and Lizzy Caplan (Masters of Sex), for a roundtable discussion on women […]
