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An Alabama GOP group faced scrutiny this week after sharing KKK imagery on its Facebook. According to WHNT, the Lawrence County Republican Party shared the post Sunday night when announcing its new county chairman, Shanon Terry. At first glance, the illustration looked like the typical GOP elephant with an American flag motif; but upon closer examination, […]
A Black couple is taking legal action after their home appraisal increased nearly $300,000 because of race. According to the New York Times, Nathan Connolly and Shani Mott filed the housing discrimination lawsuit in Maryland District Court on Monday—about a year after they applied to refinance their mortgage with loanDepot. Connolly, a professor at John Hopkins University, says he and his […]
A Black mother filed a lawsuit on behalf of her daughter after she discovered her elementary school created a cotton field to get students to “identify with the real-life experience of African American slaves,” per the Los Angeles Times. In her suit, Rashunda Pitts alleges she dropped off her now-14-year-old daughter, referred to in court documents as […]
Though it’s been 26 years since 2Pac’s death, many of his words still ring true. On Ari Melber’s MSNBC interview series Mavericks, Snoop Dogg reacted to powerful footage of the late rapper discussing the Black Panthers, how the organization helped Black Americans, and how Shakur used that same model to support people through music. Melber played a brief montage […]
A video of a Georgia police officer saying the N-word has been making the rounds online, and now that cop and four others have been placed on administrative leave. The Ledger-Enquirer reports that the West Point, Georgia officers arrived at a suspect’s mother’s house to serve a warrant. However, no one was home. Instead, one of the […]
An incident at a Lee Summit, Missouri water park went viral this week, with a video showing a Black family not being granted entrance to the park. The footage shows the family speaking with a white woman, who appears to work at the park, and either a security officer or cop standing next to her. While much of […]
Council members in a small Alabama city have moved to terminate two officials with its local police department, as well as to disband the department itself, after an officer shared a racist text message. Per the Associated Press, Vincent Mayor James Latimore said last week that Vincent Police Department Chief James Srygley and Assistant Chief […]
A Texas man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for brutally attacking an Asian family he had blamed for the COVID pandemic. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 21-year-old Jose Gomez III confronted the Burmese family at a Sam’s Club on March 14, 2020, just a day after then-President Donald Trump declared the coronavirus […]
Twitter users are applauding a Disney World employee for making sure Black children weren’t snubbed during a recent parade. According to TMZ, the now-viral moment was captured by a father who recently accompanied his children to the Orlando theme park. The clip shows a parade in which a worker dressed as Toy Story’s Woody notices two Black kids cheering from the […]
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 […]
