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Stormzy was scheduled to perform at Austrian music festival Snowbombing on Thursday night, but he decided to cancel his appearance last minute due to what he described as an incident of racial profiling from the event’s security. Posting on Instagram, the English rapper explained the situation further for fans who were looking forward to seeing […]
Burger King has apologized after receiving backlash for an advertisement that was released by its franchise in New Zealand, CNN reports. The ad in question features people using chopsticks to eat Burger King’s “Vietnamese Sweet Chilli Tendercrisp Burger.” “Take your taste buds all the way to Ho Chi Minh City with our Vietnamese Sweet Chilli Tendercrisp,” they wrote in […]
Fires have burned three historically black churches over the last 10 days in a single south Louisiana Parish, prompting authorities to call into question whether “suspicious” activity is behind the damage, the New York Times reports. “There is clearly something happening in this community,” State Fire Marshal H. Browning said in a statement. “That is why it […]
A jury has acquitted police officer Michael Rosfeld, who shot and killed unarmed black 17-year-old Antwon Rose II outside Pittsburgh, the Associated Press reports. The decision was handed down on Friday, after the jury deliberated for less than four hours. The shooting and investigation triggered protests in the city, as crowds challenged the police department’s […]
A Connecticut woman has accused Harvard University of exploiting images of 19th-century slaves, who she claims are her ancestors. According to USA Today, Tamara Lanier is suing the Ivy League after they allegedly ignored her requests to hand over the photographs of South Carolina slaves who’ve been identified as Renty and his daughter Delia. Harvard biologist Louis Agassiz commissioned […]
A Canadian student has been accused of purposely disrupting a vigil for the victims of the New Zealand mosque attacks, as he attended the event wearing the pro-Trump “Make America Great Again” hat. A now-viral video shows the unidentified man being confronted by a crowd at Toronto’s York University, just days after the Christchurch terrorist attack that […]
Khloé Kardashian recently took to Instagram to share a photo of a T-shirt that encouraged readers to “love thy neighbor.” Upon first glance, the message was superficially sentimental, with each line dedicated to a different marginalized group: “Thy Homeless Neighbor, Thy Muslim Neighbor, Thy Black Neighbor, Thy Gay Neighbor, Thy White Neighbor, Thy Jewish Neighbor, Thy Christian […]
Olivia Anakwe took to Instagram this month to shed light on the negligence and disrespect she experienced prior to a runway show by haircare professionals who either caused her physical pain or blatantly refused to style her natural hair texture. In a thorough post, Anakwe explained the insulting treatment models and celebrities of color are often exposed to while […]
A woman in Connecticut is being roundly and rightly condemned for spitting at a black man and woman in a grocery store and repeatedly calling them the N-word. In this week’s episode of Racist Wypipo Gone Wild: Corinne Terrone, an employee with the Board of Ed in Hamden CT, spit & repeatedly called a […]
In a since-deleted series of videos, Instagram comedian Jess Hilarious said that she felt “threatened” after she saw four Sikh men wearing turbans board the same plane as her. She was immediately criticized for posting a video in which she audibly made it clear their presence on the plane made her uncomfortable. “Fuck y’all, I feel […]
