Asian Fraternity Makes Video In Blackface Causing Controversy
You’d think that folks would know by now that donning Blackface in YouTube videos will not go down well, but one fraternity in California clearly didn’t get the memo. NBC 4 Los Angeles reports that several members from Lambda Theta Delta, an Asian-American fraternity at University of California, Irvine, made a video in which they [...]
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 [...]
Mormon Church Changes Scriptures Regarding Ban on Blacks
The Mormon Church has revised scriptures that were previously used to justify a ban on black men serving within the church. A new edition of the scriptures was released on March 1 now mentions that Mormon prophet Joseph Smith ordained black ministers in his time, redacting years of anti-black and pro-slavery messages supported by the [...]
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 [...]
Sorority Sisters of Delta Sigma Theta March To Re-enact Women’s Suffrage Movement
By Staff Delta Sigma Theta Sorority was founded in 1913 by twenty-two black female collegians on the campus of Howard University. These young women wanted to promote academic excellence, sisterhood and relief for persons in need. The first public act performed by the sorority founders involved the participation in the Women’s Suffrage March in Washington, [...]
Christopher Dorner’s Intended Victims Sound Off
By Staff Emada and Phil Tingirides are married police officers with the LAPD, and they were on Dorner’s execution list. The couple and their six children were the intended targets of Dorner’s rage because Captain Phil Tingirides once recommended that Dorner be terminated from his boyhood dream position. “Never, ever did I think somebody would [...]
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 [...]
Emmett Till’s Family Wants Lil Wayne To Apologize For Disturbing Lyric
A cousin of the late Emmett Till wonders if Lil Wayne understands just how damaging it was when he rapped a vulgar reference to the black U.S. teen whose death in 1955 became a significant moment in the civil rights movement. Airickca Gordon-Taylor says Till’s family would like an apology from Lil Wayne for 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 [...]
ESPN’s Jemele Hill Shares Examples of Racist, Sexist Hate Mail She Receives
Jemele Hill tweeted a picture of a hate letter ESPN received about her, and unfortunately hate letters infested with racial slurs is nothing new for the African-American columnist. As much as we would like to believe that racism is a thing of the past, a hate letter sent to Hill is just proof that we [...]
World Bank Accused of Ridiculous Racism
A new report doesn’t sit well for the World Bank, which claims that it’s goal is to help alleviate poverty. For decades, there have been cries that the bank doesn’t do a very good job of serving black, brown and poor countries. A recent report shows the depth of the racism within the organization [...]
Country Music Singer Wears Confederate Flag Earpiece on National TV
Some of these folks make you shake your head in both awe and disgust. A country music singer by the name of Trace Adkins blew up the Twitter-verse by wearing a confederate flag as his earpiece on national television. The fashion statement was made during the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting, and has led to [...]
Minority Students Are Outcasts At Elite Schools In NYC
Although NYC’s most prestigious private schools have increased their efforts in diversifying their student bodies, the schools have failed to exert as much energy in the inclusion experience of the diversifying process. In a recent story published on The New York Times‘ website, a series of minority, financially struggling students illustrate their experience as outcasts at [...]
Black Workers File Charges Over Racial Discrimination At Siemens Plant
Welder Solomon Daniels had just grabbed his work clothes from his locker at the Siemens plant near Trenton when, he said, he saw the noose out of the corner of his eye, swinging from the shower curtain rod. “I was more or less terrified,” said Daniels, 48, an African American man who lives in Burlington. [...]