Wet Seal Reaches $7.5 Settlement Over Racist Allegations
Discrimination within the work force is not a new issue, but fed up Wet Seal employees decided it was time for something to be done about the injustice. The popular Junior’s clothing store has been accused of discriminating against employees of color. This discrimination is based on the fact that those employees did not have [...]
Huh? Eve Wants Her Bi-Racial Kids to be Colorblind
Is this for real? Eve seems to feel that by having bi-racial kids, she can raise them in a world where they are colorblind. So, what does that mean? That they see a black person and a white person and don’t notice their race? Is blackness so unimportant that it should be put on [...]
Racist Makeup Artist Refuse To Work With Black Model
There are so many horror stories about Black models facing discrimination and racism while working in the fashion industry. Last week, Victoria’s Secret Angel, Chanel Iman, explained her accounts with casting directors and designers who have literally turned her away, and were not shy about letting her know that they were not willing to work [...]
Jada Pinkett Wants More White People On the Covers of Black Magazines
Jada Pinkett-Smith has always been known as a respectable actress and leading lady, but her latest statements has cause some to question that position. The “Set It Off” actress has managed to ruffle a lot of feathers with her comment asking “Will there ever be a day in which women will be able to see [...]
“STOP AND FRISK”- NYPD GOES ON TRIAL
Black and Hispanic men are finally having their day in Mahattan courtroom. The controversal issue NYPD stopping “suspicious” suspects at their discetion to frisl them has finally gone on trial. Whether this practice is legal or not is at question, and minority groups will now get an answer. Atlanta Black Star reports: The trial in [...]
Advertisers Make New Play on Racial Stereotyping Using The Word “Honky”
For years people have tried to find a slur for white Americans as evocative and offensive as the N-word is for African-Americans. And, frankly, there aren’t many classics to choose from. Honky, whitey, cracker, hillbilly: They all fall flat. The problem is, “white” refers to so many different types of people that a reference to [...]
Man Says He Was Fired for Reporting Racial Slurs
Diamond Pet Foods in Lathrop, California is so deeply covered in allegations of racism that the company has become the target of a federal investigation. A lawsuit was filed by three African American employees who say that they were fired for reporting racial problems within the company. Ronberto Collins is saying that his bosses [...]
Please, No Negroes Touch My Baby!
Dr. Darron Smith African American participation as professionals in the health care field remains disappointingly low. The reasons for this shortage are multifactorial, but not well understood or well documented. One usual suspect is our centuries-old history of racial discrimination, which persistently impacts the decisions that young people make and the opportunities they are granted [...]
African American Nurse Banned From Handling White Newborn Baby
A Michigan nurse claims she was banned from caring for a newborn child because of her skin color. Tonya Battle is suing her employers at Hurley Medical Center, in Flint, after they ordered her not to look after the baby in the neonatal intensive care unit following a request from its father, WNEM reports. The [...]
Men Tattooing Lower Lip To Enhance African Beauty?
Nigerian men are engaging in a bizarre beauty ritual of tattooing their lower lip a pinkish bubble-gum color. The purpose is to enhance their appearance. Not knowing there are other ways to achieve this alternative look without the discomfort of tattooing, especially to a sensitive area of the body, many men feel this lightening technique [...]
U.S. Census Bureau May Stop Using ‘Negro’ Classification On The Questionnaire
The U.S. Census Bureau may drop the term Negro from its questionnaire by 2020. The Census Bureau may also change some other minor aspects of the form regarding racial classification, because advocacy groups pushed for more updated categories to reflect cultural trends. The term Negro is listed alongside black and African-American. As first reported by [...]
Suge Knight & Katt Williams Claim They Are Not To Blame For Club Fight…They Were Defending Obama
Anybody hanging with Suge Knight 20 years after Death Row Records is probably asking for trouble. Now, after getting into yet another altercation at a night club, Katt and Suge are playing the race card to explain what went down. The sad thing is that most sensible black people aren’t going to listen to [...]
Julianne Malveaux Tells Black People to Hook In and Hook Up in 2013
by Dr. Julianne Malveaux How will African American people improve our situation in 2013? Right now, we have higher unemployment than any other population in our nation, less wealth, higher school dropout rates, and more crime in our communities. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said that African American communities had twice the number of [...]
Meteorologist Sues After Being Fired Over Natural Hairstyle
Rhonda Lee, the former meteorologist at KXAN in Austin, Texas has filed a discrimination suit against her former station. Lee says she was fired last August after being “repeatedly subjected to crude and insensitive remarks about her race.” The station never made an official statement why she was kicked off the air but Lee posted [...]
Two Minutes and Some Change: Could a Race War Be Around the Corner?
In this video, Vigalantee The Hip-hopologist talks about the death of Jordan Davis and all the other stuff going on with young black males in America. Could a race war be around the corner? Vigalantee says that it could happen. Vigalantee, who hails out of the killing fields of Kansas City, talks about what [...]