A nationally-known fraternity at the University of Mississippi has suspended three of its members who are suspected of defiling a statue of the school’s first Black student. A trio of Sigma Phi Epsilon members allegedly hung a noose around the statue of civil rights pioneer James Meredith and are currently facing expulsion.
A group of high school wrestlers are being investigated for taking a photo of what appears to be the white male students lynching a Black wrestling dummy in New Jersey. State officials are examining possible civil rights violations of the case, and the school superintendent says his office took steps to reprimand the boys as […]
The Internet is a place where anonymity gives a veil of protection for social media users to spew racist language at will. A recent study found that as many as 10,000 such comments per day are uttered on the fast moving network of Twitter.
Jewish, Muslim and political groups in France are pushing for the Premier League’s ban of Nicolas Anelka for his recent on-field antics, which are being accused of being offensive towards Jewish people.
12 Years A Slave was one of this year’s most critically acclaimed films, with its star Chiwetel Ejiofor delivering a stirring performance as main character Solomon Northup. Despite this, it appears that theaters in Italy have promotional posters of the film that display prominent white characters instead.
A Black fashion student was allegedly brutally assaulted by Hasidic Jewish men in Brooklyn. According to Taj Patterson, gay slurs were hurled his way during the beating that left him with a grotesquely black eye and other injuries including a detached retina.
The white nationalist organization Ku Klux Klan once boasted millions of members in the early 20th Century, but their numbers are much smaller these days. Daryl Davis, a Black musician who befriends KKK members, may share some responsibility in the group’s shrinking membership.
It’s something about Halloween that makes the racists go honey baked ham. A photo of a white guy in blackface, dressed as the late Trayvon Martin, along with another man in a “Neighborhood Watch” tee started making the rounds over the weekend. All three bozos in the pic have been identified.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found themselves “poppin’ ish and apologizing” with a failed joke attempt that would send Michael Richards into post-traumatic shock. The city of Powder Springs recently celebrated the luck of lottery winner who is now a $1 million richer but but whoever was running the AJC’s Twitter account took things a little too far.
A Queens college student who purchased an expensive belt at New York’s high-end department store, Barneys, was cornered by undercover NYPD cops accusing the teen of fraud last spring. Trayon Christian claims in a lawsuit that the cops didn’t believe he could afford the $350 belt, and essentially profiled him because he is black.
A complaint brought against the Hartford, Conn. school system alleges that instructors on a field trip asked Black students to reenact a moment of slavery last fall, complete with heavy usage of the n-word. A parent of a former female student at the Hartford Magnet Trinity College Academy filed the complaint back in March, but now the […]
The University Of Alabama landed on the national radar after news broke four predominately white sororities at the school failed to admit two qualified black women to its ranks. After a week of unwanted bad publicity, the school has announced it will change the recruitment process into the white Greek organizations which could allow the […]
