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Rosalind Brewer, the CEO of Sam’s Club and the first woman and Black woman to head any of Walmart‘s companies, spoke with CNN recently for an interview. During the talk, Brewer spoke at length about promoting diversity at her company which was met by bigoted responses and comments calling her a racist.

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Antonin Scalia, the longest-serving justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, has made it a career mission to oppose hot-button topics such as abortion mixed with his conquest to preach that the death penalty is is constitutional.

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Most forward-thinking Americans are wary of displaying any sort of particle that might suggest white supremacy. One Missouri man insists that hanging the two pieces of historically racist symbols from his home – the noose and confederate flag – denotes pride and heritage. KSPR reported that someone at Jeffrey Tindle’s home removed the flag after […]

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NBC’s The Wiz Live! hasn’t even aired yet and it already has people of the closeted racist and All Lives Matter variations up in arms.

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In a whirlwind two days, three men are now in custody after the Monday night shooting that took place at a Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis. Of the three men being held, two of the suspects turned themselves in and the activists say they also uncovered a plot to disrupt the protest as well.

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Donald Trump has managed to keep himself a topic of discussion as he seeks the GOP nomination for the 2016 presidential race. But now, analysts might wonder if the business mogul damaged his chances after tweeting out a racist image that originated as neo-nazi propaganda.

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Diversity in Hollywood has become a hot-button topic as of late but The Hollywood Reporter didn’t help move the conversation forward when they rolled out its latest roundtable cover to commemorate its five-year anniversary.

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It isn’t a secret that race relations in the United States are especially tense, most apparently in how police interact with communities of color. For Fay Wells, her recent run-in with police in California underscores why activist groups have banded together in protest of the tactics cops employ.

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This news will be shocking to no one with common sense or the ability to make rational observations. The Department of Justice has found that Black Americans are more likely to experience force or the threat of force from police when compared to whites and Hispanics. 

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Katori Hall, the writer of the critically acclaimed The Mountaintop play, appalled (and rightfully so) at Kent State University’s decision to cast a white actor to portray Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in an adaptation of her art.

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Since the resignation of University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe, tensions on the campus have seemingly turned for the worse. Students are reporting that race-fueled death threats have been issued, igniting the #PrayForMizzou hashtag across social media.

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Six Black passengers on a Spirit Airlines flight were kicked off a Dallas-bound aircraft Monday night (Nov. 2) after the flight attendant allegedly accused the group of being disruptive. The three couples were escorted off the plane at Los Angeles International Airport and are claiming they were racially discriminated against by the attendant.