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Fred Perry has pulled one of its most iconic polo shirts from production in the US and Canada after it was adopted as uniform by a far-right group. The British-born brand will no longer be selling its Black/Yellow/Yellow twin-tipped shirt after the garment was adopted by the Proud Boys, a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group founded in 2016. Fred […]
It has been 194 days since police fatally shot Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, while she slept in her bed. On March 13, around 1 a.m., plainclothes Louisville Metro Police Department Officers Myles Cosgrove and Brett Hankison, along with Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, used a battering ram to force open Taylor’s apartment door while executing […]
Wells Fargo‘s Chief Executive Charles Scharf tried to explain why the company is having trouble reaching its diversity goals. In the process, he ended up showing his true colors. Two participants in a summer Zoom meeting with Scharf told Reuters on Tuesday the company is unable to meet its diversity goals because there is a limited pool of qualified Black […]
Racial tensions have heightened in America. Instead of extending empathy to a fellow citizen, a Walmart customer decided to inflame a situation using racial slurs. On Saturday, TMZ obtained footage of a confrontation between two shoppers at a Stone Mountain, Georgia Walmart. In the video, a Black woman can be heard yelling at a white […]
It is the elephant in the room, the question that will hover over the Raptors’ off-season until there’s something definitive: Will Masai Ujiri remain in Toronto beyond the 2019-20 season? Over the course of his tenure with the franchise, he has helped raise the Raptors from drudges of their existence as perpetual cellar dwellers to […]
A Utah officer has been charged with felony assault after he ordered his police dog to attack a Black man who was complying with officers’ orders. According to The Salt Lake Tribune, the incident took place on April 24, when authorities responded to a domestic disturbance report at a Salt Lake City residence. Bodycam footage shows […]
A woman wearing egregiously patterned boots has been dubbed a “Karen” on Reddit and beyond after the sharing of footage in which she’s seen claiming to be calling police on a Black U.S. Census Bureau worker. The footage in question, per the Daily Dot’s report on Monday, first started taking off via the FuckYouKaren subreddit over […]
Dear White People star Jeremy Tardy has just announced that he will not be taking part in the fourth and final season of the Netflix show because of racial discrimination he said he faced with Lionsgate in regards to contract negotiations. “Unfortunately I will not be joining NETFLIX’s Dear White People for its fourth and final season due to my experience with […]
A knife and blade store in Clifton, New Jersey is facing backlash after the owner placed a sign in the front window that reads “Speak English or Pay $10 Extra.” USA Today reports that the store, Cutters Edge, has been hit with negative reviews across the internet for the sign, which many have rightfully labeled as racist. […]
The University of Michigan-Dearborn is expressing remorse after being called out for segregating students into separate groups based on their background to discuss race and current events. On Tuesday, the school’s Center for Social Justice & Inclusion hosted a Zoom session where Black, Indigenous, and people of color where assigned one group, while the other was […]
