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Yale University has honored the work of Bobbi Wilson, a 9-year-old Black girl who was wrongly reported to the police while catching insects in her neighborhood. According to NBC News, the New Jersey fourth-grader became fascinated with spotted lantern flies after learning about the invasive species in school. Though the insects don’t directly harm humans […]
Shortly after Sunday service, Reverend Michael Jennings went to his neighbor’s home to water their outdoor flowers at their request. Minutes later, the Black pastor found himself handcuffed in the back of a police car. According to the New York Times, the arrest took place May 22 in Childersburg, Alabama, where Jennings had been spotted outside a […]
Walmart has been ordered to pay $4.4 million to Michael Mangum, who filed a lawsuit against the supermarket chain last year after an employee racially profiled him. Mangum, who is Black, sued Walmart after he alleged he was followed by a security worker in a Wood Village, Oregon store, per CBS News. In court documents, Mangum […]
A mother in New Jersey has accused a Chuck E. Cheese employee of racial discrimination. Natyana Muhammad took to her Twitter account @belllahijabi to call out a worker wearing a mascot suit for snubbing her excited 2-year-old daughter, who is Black. A video shows the girl being passed over by the mascot as he gives out several high fives to a group of […]
Los Angeles Clippers guard Norman Powell shared video of a white woman harassing him at a gym in Las Vegas on Tuesday. “This girl’s insane, bro,” Powell begins the video, before informing viewers that the woman was at the gym earlier and was bothering him before she left. The woman returned and said, according to Powell, that “we’re not […]
A white mother from California says she was accused of human trafficking while traveling with her biracial daughter on Southwest Airlines. Mary MacCarthy and her 10-year-old Moira were flying to Denver on Oct. 22 after Mary’s brother’s death, and during a transfer in San Jose, she claims flight attendants said they’d “each have to take a middle seat” […]
A New Jersey woman is facing charges after being caught on video yelling racial slurs at a hotel clerk. The woman, 46-year-old Elizabeth Trzeciak, was staying a hotel nearby the Super 8 hotel in Mount Laurel but still appeared at the front desk at 12:30 a.m. Monday, and called the clerk the N-word several times. She […]
Amanda Gorman took to Twitter on Friday night to describe an incident that many people of minority communities found all too familiar. The 22-year-old activist and poet said she was walking to her home in Los Angeles when she realized she was being “tailed” by a security guard. Gorman, who became the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history […]
Danny Green continues to set himself apart. Not many can say they’ve won both an NCAA title and at least three NBA titles—in fact, just 10 other people can. After winning a championship with San Antonio in 2014, Green just won back-to-back titles with both the Toronto Raptors and Los Angeles Lakers. At 33, Green […]
A Black father was interrogated by police this month because they believed he had “too many” credit cards. According to Daily Mail, the incident took place Aug. 12 at a gas station in the Fort Worth suburb of Burleson, Texas. The man, 39-year-old Brian Friar, told the outlet he was withdrawing money from an ATM when three […]
