Now I love Eve, the pitbull in a skirt-turned-“it” girl on the Hollywood scene, and her relationship with British entrepreneur and race car driver Maximillion Cooper is beautiful. But her thoughts about biracial babies and especially her childrearing philosophy has me cocking an eyebrow: Eve says she plans to raise her kids to be “colorblind.” [...]
Bloomberg Forcefully Defends Stop-and-Frisk, Accuses NY Times of Racism
May 1, 2013 | Posted by
In a vociferous defense of the controversial stop-and-frisk policy, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg accused critics of the practice, which is the subject of an ongoing lawsuit, of trying to make the city less safe. The mayor even lashed out at the New York Times for failing to cover the senseless murder of a 17-year-old black boy—the [...]
Africans Face Racism in Mumbai: ‘You Are Not Wanted’
April 11, 2013 | Posted by
Africans staying in and around India’s commercial capital, Mumbai (formerly Bombay), complain of indiscriminate racism and constant police harassment, reports the BBC’s Zubair Ahmed. Nigerian Sambo Davis is married to an Indian woman and lives in Mumbai. All his documents are valid, but he was arrested by the police recently on suspicion of being a [...]
Michelle Obama Says Jackie Robinson Biopic Delivers Important Message
April 3, 2013 | Posted by
During a private screening event for 42, a biopic detailing the life of Jackie Robinson, first lady Michelle Obama Tuesday told an audience of students that watching the depiction of racism in the tale of baseball’s integration was upsetting. The first lady and President Barack Obama viewed the movie over the weekend, and she said [...]
NAACP Official Criticizes Steubenville Rape Victim
March 28, 2013 | Posted by
More than a week after two Ohio high school football players were found guilty of sexual assault, a member of the state’s NAACP executive committee criticized the actions of the 16-year-old victim. Royal Mayo, formerly the president of the Steubenville, Ohio NAACP chapter, defended Steubenville High School students Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond during an [...]
KKK Plans Memphis Rally to Protest Park Name Change
March 20, 2013 | Posted by
Ku Klux Klan members are planning to gather in Memphis, Tenn., this month to protest the city’s decision to rename a park dedicated to a KKK member. Nathan Bedford Forrest Park is named after a Confederate general and early klansman, who is buried at the site. A branch of the KKK known as the Loyal [...]
Race In Brazil: A Mix of Openness and Exclusion
March 18, 2013 | Posted by
Many Brazilians cast their country as a racial democracy where people of different groups long have intermarried, resulting in a large mixed-race population. But you need only turn on the TV, open the newspaper or stroll down the street to see clear evidence of segregation. In Brazil, whites are at the top of the social [...]
Oberlin College Cancels Classes After Racist Incidents
March 5, 2013 | Posted by
A series of hateful messages have led to a “day of solidarity” at Ohio’s Oberlin College. Classes were canceled Monday as administrators sought to address the outbreak of racist, antigay and anti-Semitic messages scrawled across the liberal institution’s campus. College President Marvin Krislov apologized to students affected by the messages during an assembly at the [...]
Ga. NAACP Accuses Gov. Deal of Racism For Suspending DeKalb School Board Members
March 1, 2013 | Posted by
The issue of race has been simmering just beneath the surface of the DeKalb school board controversy. On Thursday, Georgia’s NAACP, other civil rights activists and some African-American state legislators made it official. They accused Republican Gov. Nathan Deal of being part of an alleged conspiracy to get rid of black officeholders and deprive black [...]
New York Assemblyman Hosts Party in Blackface
February 25, 2013 | Posted by
New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) has come under fire for wearing blackface at a Purim party hosted at his home over the weekend. Hikind hired a makeup artist to paint his face and was sporting an orange baseball jersey, shades and an Afro wig during the party. He posed for pictures that later appeared [...]
