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A federal judge determined Tesla was liable to a former employee who successfully sued the company in 2021 for racial discrimination and harassment; however, the judge slashed the plaintiff’s damages award from $137 million to $15 million. Owen Diaz went public with the allegations in 2018, about two years after he quit his job at the auto-maker’s production facility in Fremont, California. […]
Florida-based artist Y&R Mookey received a 10-year sentence this week after previously being convicted on a possession of a firearm charge. Both the sentence and the trial that preceded it have received nationwide attention, due in large part to the fact that music videos were utilized during the court proceedings. Per a regional report from Jacksonville’s […]
Miya Ponsetto, the woman who attacked a 14-year-old Black teen who she falsely accused of stealing her iPhone, has reached a plea deal in the incident and will not serve jail time. Dubbed “SoHo Karen,” Ponsetto will be required to “live a law-abiding life” for 2 years, continuing therapy and following her probation terms, per TMZ. After […]
President Joe Biden has signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act, which now makes lynching a federal hate crime for the first time in U.S. history. Now, a crime could “be prosecuted as a lynching when death or serious bodily injury results from a conspiracy to commit a hate crime,” per the Huffington Post, with those convicted facing upwards of […]
A former employee at Google sued the tech giant on Friday, claiming it engages in systemic bias against Black workers. Reuters reports the lawsuit, filed on Friday in a San Jose, California federal court, accuses Google of maintaining a “racially biased corporate culture” by placing Black employees in lower-level jobs, paying them less and denying them opportunities to advance because of […]
The Los Angeles Police Department has been slapped with another lawsuit alleging excessive force and racial profiling. According to legal documents obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, the department is being sued by Ernest Simon Jr., a Black production employee of the Walt Disney Company’s General Entertainment Division. The plaintiff says the incident took place in March 2021 during a […]
A Dunkin employee has been sentenced on a reduced count after previously being charged with manslaughter in connection with the fatal punch of a customer who used a racist slur against him. An Associated Press report this week revealed that 27-year-old Corey Pujols of Florida has pleaded guilty to felony battery and been sentenced to two years […]
Joe Rogan was in serious hot water ago after a compilation video went viral of the podcast host saying the N-word across a slew of episodes. Freddie Gibbs recently visited the Joe Rogan Experience alongside Brian Moses, and while the rapper condemned Rogan for using the racial slur, Gibbs also said he doesn’t think the comedian is racist. “You can’t say that shit, Joe,” Freddie […]
Benzino is still going at Eminem nearly 20 years after their beef first kicked off, and he doesn’t seem to care who he has to diss in the process. After saying that “nobody in my hood” listened to Eminem, per XXL, Benzino has seen plenty of backlash from Em fans, and has gone at them himself […]
Estée Lauder senior executive John Demsey has been forced out of the company after he shared a meme on Instagram that featured a racist slur. NBC News reports that Demsey was given notice on Monday, less than a week after he shared the offensive meme. “M n***a Snuffy done got the ’rona at a Chingy concert,” […]
