A sign at entrance to the U.S. Naval Academy campus in Annapolis, Md., Jan. 9,2014. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) The Pentagon issued a directive to pull and review all library books addressing diversity, anti-racism or gender issues by Wednesday. All but a few of the nearly 400 books that the U.S. Naval Academy removed from its…
FILE – A sculler rows down the Charles River near Harvard University, at rear, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File) In a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in Boston, Harvard said the government’s action violates the First Amendment and will have an “immediate and devastating effect for Harvard and…
Race has firmly inserted itself into the ongoing debate on whether, as Donald Trump claims, there’s a genocide of white farmers in South Africa. On CNN’s NewsNight, host Abby Phillip grew so exasperated with the rhetoric coming from the right, she flat out asked conservative commentator Scott Jennings, “Why are you only concerned with white…
A Home Depot logo sign hands on its facade, Friday, May 14, 2021, in North Miami, Fla. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File) The cost of home repairs and remodeling climbed by nearly 4% in the first quarter from a year earlier. U.S. homeowners are spending more on home renovation projects, bucking a broader pullback by consumers…
Source: Per-Anders Pettersson / Getty Afrikaners, the white ethnic group that ruled South Africa during apartheid until its end in 1994, have become a buzzing topic since President Trump granted a group of 59 Afrikaners refugee status in the US due to “unjust racial discrimination” in their country. Although Trump’s claims are questionable. Notably, white…
A North Carolina woman who was criminally charged after boarding a school bus and launching into an expletive-ridden outburst at several middle school students, which included calling one Black student the N-word, said her actions weren’t racially motivated. Samantha Spoor, 35, was arrested and charged with communicating threats, trespassing, and disorderly conduct. She was released…
Residents watch as law enforcement search for a fugitive that escaped a prison in New Orleans, Wednesday, May 21, 2025. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP) After 10 inmates at a jail in New Orleans escaped through a hole behind the toilet, five remain on the lam. As authorities scour New Orleans for escapees…
A Black Lives Matter mural painted by Thaxton Waters II is seen in an aerial view on Thursday, May 22, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Kevin Wurm) Five years on, activists and community groups are still maintaining many of the murals, while others are disappearing. In 2020, after a summer of protests rocked U.S. cities,…
Actor Jonah Hill’s dramatic weight loss has been years in the making, but it’s his most recent transformation that’s sparking fresh concern among fans. Resurfaced photos of Hill, 41, have spread across social media over the past several days on X. The viral images were taken from footage of “The Wolf of Wall Street” star…
Source: Stephen Maturen / Getty Five years ago, the world watched George Floyd die with a police officer’s knee on his neck. A 17-year-old girl, Darnella Frazier, held her phone steady and forced the world to see what Black communities have known for centuries: the police do not keep us safe. In the weeks that…
