A group of Ohio teens is facing scrutiny by their peers and the local chapter of the NAACP after they hung a racially insensitive banner at a high school football game against a rival school. The sign, which read “You Mad Bro,” played on the popular Internet meme “You mad?” Still, it sparked a controversy when Black attendees […]
In a candid interview in the Oval Office last week, President Obama touched the topic of race for the first time in a long time when he said that Black Americans have “suffered more” through this recession. The article, written by Edward Wyckoff Williams, focused on a radio interview conducted by two WVON Chicago radio […]
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its most recent unemployment data. We knew that Black folks (especially men) would be at the bottom, we just didn’t know how bad. Well, it turns out that the numbers exceed even the most pessimistic predictions. Black unemployment shot up like a rocket during the month of August, […]
According to researchers at Northwestern University, race and ancestry make Black children twice as likely than white children to be allergic to certain foods like eggs, peanuts and milk. The study, published in the journal Pediatrics, found that about 38 percent of Black children had food sensitivities compared to 22 percent of children. “When the researchers […]
Despite a slumping economy, states like North Dakota seem to be doing fairly well. With an unemployment rate slightly over 3 percent and the highest job growth in the nation, some say North Dakota and its neighboring states (Montana, South Dakota and Minnesota), are the best options for African-Americans looking to find work. But with unemployment as […]
NEW YORK — Police captured a man charged with robbing several banks by tracing posts and pictures on his Facebook page. Jesse Hippolite was charged by the NYPD with 3 stickups and is suspected of 16 others. Hippolite named himself after notorious bank robber, Willie S. Sutton on Facebook. The New York Daily News reports: […]
NEW YORK— Brooklyn City Councilman Jumaane Williams who was handcuffed and detained by police officers at the West Indian Labor Day parade, says racism played a factor is his detainment. Williams was handcuffed and later released after a policemen refused to let him enter a safe-zone near the Brooklyn Museum. The New York Post reports: […]
For some time now, white supremacists have been buying web domains relating to Martin Luther King. Now they have managed to get one of their site into the first page of Martin Luther King’s Google ranking. On site that disrespects King has even managed to outrank the official Martin Luther King Site on Google. The […]
The scandal happening over at University Miami wasn’t the only ugly thing in the spotlight when the Terps played the Hurricanes on Monday. While the University of Maryland defeated the shorthanded Hurricanes 32-24 in Maryland coach Randy Edsall’s debut game more attention was given to Maryland’s new uniforms, and not good attention either. It became […]
NEW YORK — A professor at Medgar Evars college in Brooklyn is claiming she was fired after an anonymous email referred to her as a whore. Dr. Zulema Blair says that an anonymous email was sent to administrators at Medgar Evars claiming that she was having sex with and became impregnated by a student. Zulema […]
