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Zoe Saldana faced a slew of criticism when she decided to portray Nina Simone in Cynthia Mort’s 2016 biopic Nina. Before Saldana’s performance even hit the table for judgment, people let it be known that Simone’s place and life as a dark-skinned Black woman were being rewritten when Saldana took on the role. This moved Saldana to […]
This week a jump in reported COVID-19 related deaths, thanks to new data, revealed the severity of Texas’ crisis as one of the nation’s coronavirus hotspots. That data also illustrated the wide discrepancy in deaths by race, with Hispanic residents disproportionately representing 47 percent of the state’s fatalities. Hispanic Texans make up only 40 percent of the overall […]
Donald Trump made another desperate attempt to win back suburban voters. And the classist, racist undertones couldn’t be ignored. On Wednesday, the president returned to Twitter to celebrate the repeal of the Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing law—an Obama-era regulation that aimed to combat racial discrimination. Trump told suburbanites that his decision to rescind the rule meant […]
LeBron James returned to the court Thursday night when the Lakers took on the Dallas Mavericks in their first Orlando scrimmage. Following Los Angeles‘ 104-108 loss, James conducted a postgame press conference that primarily focused on his calls for social justice. “First of all, I want to continue to shed light on justice for Breonna Taylor and […]
A 12-year-old boy has been arrested after Crystal Palace player Wilfried Zaha exposed the racial abuse he experienced prior to Sunday’s Premier League match at Aston Villa, the New York Times reports. On Saturday, Zaha tweeted out several racists images and comments he received from an Aston Villa fan account, tweeting, “Woke up to this today.” The racist messages include […]
I am one-quarter black, and I grew up in King’s Lynn—a town not too far from Cambridge. My grandad is from Trinidad and Tobago and my great-grandmother was Venezuelan, but pretty much the rest of my family is white British, so I’m quite light in complexion. I have what would be considered “white” features, so especially when my hair […]
Michael V. Drake’s retirement was pretty short-lived. Just a week after he left his post as the president of Ohio State University, Drake was announced as the 21st president of the University of California system. The move marks the first time a Black person has ever held the position in the system’s 152-year history. “Dr. Drake personifies […]
Iowa State guard Rasir Bolton shared on Twitter Monday that his decision to transfer from Penn State last year was due to a comment from Nittany Lions head coach Patrick Chambers where he referenced that Bolton had a noose around his neck. Bolton said Chambers’ remark was made one day after the coach served a one-game suspension for shoving Penn State’s Myles Dread during a […]
Lionsgate has opted to keep the Season 3 episode of Mad Men titled “My Old Kentucky Home,” which features John Slattery’s character Roger Sterling in blackface. Deadline reports the racist imagery will be addressed prior to the episode with a disclaimer explaining that the scene “shows how commonplace racism was in America in 1963.” “This […]
Three of the world’s biggest corporations have been asked to terminate their partnerships with the Washington Redskins unless the team changes its controversial name. According to AdWeek, 87 investment firms and shareholders sent three separate letters to Nike, PepsiCo, and FedEx last week, pressuring each of the companies to cut ties with the NFL franchise. […]
