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Researchers from the Alabama Historical Commission will be commencing a 10-day evaluation of the sunken remains of the last-known slave ship in the U.S., per CBS News. The Clotilda, which researchers have described as the most complete slave ship discovered, illegally dropped off 110 West Africans on the Alabama coast in 1860 via the Mobile River. Salvage company Resolve Marine will now […]
After his death on Dec. 12, Pennsylvania’s Venango County District Attorney Shawn White announced at a press conference on Tuesday that Peter Spencer’s death was a result of self-defense under the state’s stand your ground law. Spencer’s family says they are “not surprised” by the announcement—describing his death as a ‘modern-day lynching.’ When Spencer’s […]
A group of Missouri students who were disciplined over a racist petition have taken legal action against their school. According to the Associated Press, four freshman at Park Hill South High School were punished earlier this year after one of them created a Change.org petition that called for the return of slavery. The incident reportedly began […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets Colin Kaepernick’s 6-episode limited series, Colin in Black and White debuted on Netflix this weekend, where the former quarterback […]
On Sunday, Kanye West took a stage in Charleston, South Carolina to hold his first-ever campaign rally, complete with a bullet-proof vest and the year ‘2020’ cut into his hair. During that rally he made the first of (enter your best guess here) suspect comments that will generate headlines until this social experiment comes to an end. […]
It looks like Bill Cosby‘s publicist watched Eddie Murphy‘s return to Saturday Night Live. During his monologue, Murphy took aim at Cosby. “If you told me 30 years ago that I’d be this boring stay-at-home house dad and Bill Cosby would be in jail, even I wouldn’t have took that bet,” he said. Murphy continued by asking, “Who is America’s […]
Kanye West is back to spewing right-wing rhetoric in an attempt to defend his support for President Donald Trump. On Saturday, the 42-year-old rapper appeared in Salt Lake City for another installment of his Sunday Service. Shortly after taking stage, ‘Ye dived into a political rant about the backlash over his pro-Trump comments, and reminded the audience it was […]
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 […]
Fashion insiders keep screwing up. Vogue Brazil‘s style director was forced to resign this week after photos from her 50th birthday party were criticized for being racist and romanticizing colonialism. Earlier this month, pictures of Donata Meirelles’ dinner party began circulating on the internet. The images showed the director and her guests sitting on an ornate chair […]
On Friday night’s episode of HBO‘s The Shop, LeBron James had a conversation with Maverick Carter, Todd Gurley, and Ice Cube. During said conversation, James blasted the NFL and the people who own teams in the league. “In the NFL they got a bunch of old white men owning teams and they got that slave mentality,” James said, per […]
