Only days after two Ohio officers were fired for sending racist text messages, Pelham Manor’s Police Chief is being punished for sending racist emails. Chief Alfred Mosiello mocked African-Americans and Latinos in the emails, but being racist won’t cost him his job. Mosiello will face only a two week suspension after joking that African-American women are lazy welfare queens and Latinos keep their cash off the books. The Journal News…
The popular “Throwback Thursday” is not just a hit on social media, but the theme is also popular at one Northern Virginia high school. One mom has no problem with the spirit day, but believes one student went too far by wearing a slave costume. A student at Loudoun County’s Heritage High School wore the slave costume, complete with gruesome stains, to class. A mother of another student says she couldn’t…
At the top of the list of actions not to take while on the run from the cops is publicizing your location. One alleged Pennsylvania criminal, however, didn’t realize that posting on social media about getting out of town would lead to his capture. When police went looking for 22-year-old Donald Harrison, they didn’t need to look far since the suspect posted a Facebook picture of himself on a Greyhound…
A German rapper has gone from hip-hop to the terror watchlist due to his ISIS connections, according to U.S. officials. The rapper, whose real name is Denis Cuspert, now goes by the name Abu Talha al-Almani and joined the terrοr group ISIS in 2012. Not only has Cuspert joined the group, but according to State Department officials, he has been seen in several videos. In one video he was reportedly…
A black candidate for Chicago mayor is going out of his way to let white voters know that he’s not prejudiced, but the way he’s going about it is raising some eyebrows. On Thursday candidate Willie Wilson spoke on the issue of race in the city. Wilson said whites don’t sufficiently understand how race impacts the black community and that black lawmakers in the city have sold out to the…
Police say they arrested a teen for fatαlly shooting a classmate after he took a selfie with the deαd body. WPXI reports that 16 year old Maxwell Morton was charged with the mυrder of Ryan Mangan after posting a selfie to Spapchat where Morton posed with Mangan’s body. Authorities say a woman called police after her son received the Snapchat photo. The selfie “depicted the victim sitting in the chair…
A Manhattan community rallied around a black family that recently escaped a house fire which investigators believe was intentionally set. According to CBS Los Angeles, over 700 people rallied on Friday evening to show support for the family. Ron Clinton and his three kids escaped the blaze after someone set a tire on fire near their front door at around 2:15AM on Wednesday. Ron’s wife Malissia, who was away on…
By Victor Ochieng Punishing children isn’t easy, especially due to the many laws meant to protect them. Several people are coming up with different humane ways of disciplining misbehaving kids without landing on the wrong side of the law or causing them harm. Russel Fredrick, a Snellville, Georgia-based barber, believes that giving a misbehaving kid an old man’s haircut is the perfect form of punishment. Three days a week, he…
Two Ohio deputies have been terminated over racist text messages. According to local affiliate WHIO, the two Montgomery County deputies, Detective Mike Sollenberger and Captain Tom Flanders, were fired from their positions. The announcement was made today and stems from dozens of racially offensive conversations had by the deputies. “Connelly, who has been with the department for 3.5 years, is accused of sending six inappropriate conversations,” WHIO reports. “Horton, who…
by Yvette Carnell When Larry Wilmore took over after Stephen Colbert left for greener pastures, many in the black community were excited at the prospect of having a black man on as a late night host. Now, however, after Wilmore’s joke at the expense of black women, there may exist some lingering buyer’s remorse. The Nightly Show host asked during a “Keep it 100” segment whether black women were too…
Tensions are surely running high among Bobbi Kristina’s relatives given the circumstances, but according to 11Alive news in Atlanta, frustration escalated to violence among family members during their hotel stay. The local affiliate reports that Brown family members were involved in a physical altercation at a hotel. Police report that Tina Brown, Bobby Brown’s sister, hit Shayne Brown, Bobby Brown’s cousin, in the head with a bottle. The victim was…
A Maryland man who lured heterosεxual men at bars to his home, then sεxually assαulted them, was convicted on Thursday. Joey Poindexter, a real estate appraiser, was convicted of sεxually assαulting four men he met at bars and brought home. The allegations came to light after a student accused Poindexter of assαulting him after meeting him at Looney’s Pub in College Park Maryland in 2013. Although Poindexter was only convicted…
As Dexter King and Martin Luther King III continue to fight it out in court with Bernice King over who owns the rights to their father’s legacy, Dexter King is putting his multimillion dollar mansion up for sale. If you recall, Bernice King alleged in 2014 that her brothers were trying to sell their father’s Bible, along with other items, so that they could cash in. In the letter, Dr….
By Tamala Perkins Bobby Brown has been in an Atlanta hospital at his daughter Bobbi Kristina’s bedside. She is reported to be fighting for her life after being found unresponsive in a bathtub but he has also received some good news; his wife Alicia Etheredge is pregnant. Brown and his wife are expecting their second child together who will be Brown’s sixth child. The couple has a five year old…
By Jamaal Brewer If you have not yet watched the film Black or White, I’m warning you now that this is a *spoiler* alert. I remember first learning about Black or White after it appeared in the upcoming movie trailers for Selma . It didn’t spark my interest initially, but as someone who studies race relations and propaganda I wanted to see exactly what image it would portray and the…