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White high school football players in Idaho charged with raping black, disabled teammate with a coat hanger – The Washington Post
Three white high school football players at Dietrich High School in Idaho have been charged in the October 2015 rape of their black disabled teammate. The alleged victim’s family filed a $10 million lawsuit against the school. Here’s what you need to know. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post) When a teammate held out his arms after football practice…
Huffington Post Tweets A Picture of It’s Editorial Board, And Not One Of Them Is Black | The Marshall Report
300ad The Huffington Post’s own Executive Editor Liz Heron, a self described Brooklynite Mom, tweeted a photo of an Editors Meeting at the Huffington Post main headquarters. The photo was meant to be a positive publicity stunt for the media giant. Only she didn’t expect to get the firestorm over the photo that followed. In…
San Francisco Forces Out Police Chief After Officer Kills Black Woman – NYTimes.com
SAN FRANCISCO — Police Chief Gregory P. Suhr was forced out on Thursday after a fatal shooting of a black woman by a police officer, the third killing since December involving the police force, which is under federal investigation because of complaints of racial bias. Mayor Edwin M. Lee said he had asked for Chief…
It’s Gotten A Lot Harder To Act Like Whiteness Doesn’t Shape Our Politics : Code Switch : NPR
Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump shout at the media prior to a rally at the Charleston Civic Center on May 5 in Charleston, W.Va. Mark Lyons/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mark Lyons/Getty Images Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump shout at the media prior to a rally at the…
“Blue-Eyed Soul” Singer Daryl Hall To Critics of Cultural Appropriation: “STFU” – Hit & Run : Reason.com
LFDHDaryl Hall is the taller, more visible half of Hall & Oates, one of the best-selling musical duos of all time who, despite being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, never quite got the sort of critical love that many other inductees have generated. Hall and John Oates met while attending Temple…
America Created a Monster and His Name Is George Zimmerman | Complex
George Zimmerman shot and killed unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in 2012. One year later, he was acquitted of second-degree murder; four years later, he’s no closer to feeling the gravity of his actions. Zimmerman is auctioning the gun used to kill Martin on UnitedGunGroup.com on Thursday and describes it as “a piece of American history.”…
No Punishment for West Point Cadets in Raised-Fists Photo | NBC New York
Sixteen black West Point cadets who posed with raised fists for a pre-graduation picture that sparked debates on race and proper behavior in uniform won’t be punished for the gesture, the U.S. Military Academy said Tuesday. The decision, less than two weeks before the 16 female seniors are poised to graduate, found they didn’t violate…
Beyoncé Houston Concert Protested by Police | Pitchfork
On Saturday night, Beyoncé performed at NRG Stadium in her hometown of Houston, Texas. The concert was protested by a group of local police, who set up about a mile from NRG Stadium, Houston TV station KHOU reports. “Some of her performances we believe to be anti-police,” Pasadena, Texas Coalition for Police and Sheriffs president Tony…
New Twitter Account, Hashtag Re-Imagines Films #StarringJohnCho – NBC News
After a series of recent hashtag campaigns — #MyYellowfaceStory, #MyBrownfaceStory, #whitewashedOUT — in which Asian Americans and others spoke out against the lack of Asian and Asian-American representation in film, theater, and books, a new campaign launched Thursday which is propelling the conversation to the next level. #StarringJohnCho is a social movement and social media…