Here are some sobering statistics to ruin your Tuesday morning. A new survey conducted by the Crime and Delinquency journal report that a third of Americans are arrested by the time they are 23-years-old. Broken down, that means nearly half of black males and 40 percent of white males are behind bars by the time […]
Gun control hit a bump in the road in the city of Chicago when a federal judge ruled Monday that the ban on the sale of handguns is unconstitutional. Although he wants to implement new gun control reform, U.S. District Court Judge Edmond E. Chang said the municipal ordinance goes “too far.” Chicago currently prohibits the […]
An interracial couple is completely outraged after they received a valet ticket while leaving a popular restaurant that had a racist remark. According to WSBTV, U.S. Army Sgt Major Samuel Aarons and his wife Candea were highly offended when they found their ticket had “jungle fever” written on it. Candea said of the matter: ‘We have […]
Following a Sunday episode of Melissa Harris-Perry’s political commentary show on MSNBC, the beloved host is apologizing for comments made regarding Mitt Romney’s adopted black grandson. “It really sums up the diversity of the Republican party, the RNC. At the convention, they find the one black person,” joked Dean Obeidallah. “One of these things is […]
It’s the end of the year but instead of celebrating, San Antonio Spurs point guard Tony Parker is probably trying to deflect some of the heat he’s getting after the above picture was shared with the world. In what Jewish human rights groups are calling “anti-Semitic,” Parker was caught using a gesture called the “quenelle” […]
A teacher from Fairfield, Ohio has been suspended without pay after telling a student “We don’t need another black President.” Gil Voigt has been a teacher for 13 years, but the school is now taking steps to try and terminate him after he said the insensitive racial remarks to an African American student who showed […]
UPDATE: 12/27/13 2:45PM EST A photo of the man who was allegedly attacked by Conrad Alvin Barrett, has been released. A 79-year-old African-American man is reportedly the victim. However, his name has not yet been released. —- So much for the “knockout game” being an “exclusive hobby” for young black males. Conrad Alvin Barrett, a white male […]
Someone call Fox News’ Megyn Kelly, quick! Turns out there is a black Santa Claus and he’s currently at the Macy’s flagship location in NYC. Problem is, he’s kind of a secret. And you have to ask a special elf to find him for you. Luckily Amy K. Nelson, a reporter from Animal, figured […]
A New York man and a young child have died after jumping from a building on the Upper West Side in Manhattan. Police believe that 35-year-old Dmitriy Kanarikov jumped with his 3-year-old son from the 52-story building on Sunday after an alleged custody battle with his mother. By the time help arrived on the scene, the […]
Surprise, surprise. The bible-thumping Duck Dynasty star who made anti-gay comments in a GQ Magazine interview is not sorry. A few days after his family came out in support of his remarks, A&E star Phil Robertson defended the comments he made during that interview, where he called homosexual behavior “sinful” and compared it to bestiality and […]
Justine Sacco issued an apology, first to a South African newspaper and then to ABC News, after sending out one of the most controversial tweets…EVER. The full apology reads: “Words cannot express how sorry I am, and how necessary it is for me to apologize to the people of South Africa, who I have offended […]
Justine Sacco was, until Friday, the top PR person for InterActiveCorp, the New York media conglomerate run by Barry Diller. IAC owns the Daily Beast, Vimeo, About.com, Match.com and Ask.com, OkCupid, Tinder, CollegeHumor, and Dictionary.com. Sacco was flying to Cape Town, South Africa, when she tweeted to her now deactivated twitter account: Yes, you read that […]
