Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was pulled into the Donald Sterling fiasco after he wrote an op-ed piece in TIME magazine questioning all the fuss around the Los Angeles Clippers owner’s racist comments. As one of the NBA‘s living legends, Abdul-Jabbar once more addressed the matter by saying racism of Sterling’s sort is alive and well in white America.
The father of professional tennis icons Venus and Serena Williams has always been a tough cookie in his own right, but that doesn’t mean he was cool in subjecting himself to the Donald Sterling’s of his sport.
The NBA has meted out swift justice. Today (April 29), NBA Commissioner Adam Silver announced that Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has been banned for life.
Believe it or not, there is a bright side to the ugly remarks made by LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling. A number of NBA players, including LeBron James and Kobe Bryant, have come forward to admonish the racist comments head on.
The entire world is none too pleased with Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling after a leaked conversation with his girlfriend exposed his disdain for her surrounding herself with Black people at their games.
The Internets reacted with swift social commentary about Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s racist remarks. For those in the dark about the matter, TMZ obtained an audio clip of Sterling giving his bi-racial girlfriend, V. Stiviano, an ultimatum about openly dealing with Black people on Instagram and overall.
Republicans have just been dealt another mile to climb in their uphill battle to prove that their party doesn’t directly identify with racism, after a Nevada man famous for battling the government in his area was videotaped saying some pretty dispablce remarks about African-Americans and Mexicans.
House Budget Chairman and former Vice President candidate Paul Ryan, R-Wi, has some explaining to do to African-Americans–and he will, following comments he made that basically implied Black people in the ghetto don’t work hard.
Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, the boxer wrongfully convicted of murder in 1966 and the titular character Denzel Washington portrayed in the 1999 motion picture The Hurricane, has died at the age of 76.
MLB Hall of Famer Hank Aaron is a living legend and that fact was certified a week ago when he and the Atlanta Braves celebrated the 40th anniversary of him breaking Babe Ruth’s home run record.
Accused child molester Woody Allen may have to add another unfortunate stigma to his name of “alleged racist” after a report is claiming he dismissed the notion of having any “Black gangsters” for his new play adaptation of one his previous films.
With all the clamor revolving around the Washington Washington Football Team to change their name due to the insensitivity towards Native Americans, the Cleveland Indians have ostensibly flown under the radar of national criticism.
