Source: David Berding / Getty Kyrie Irving is no stranger to controversy and isn’t one to hold his tongue when it comes to issues he believes in. When Irving played in Boston and Brooklyn, he had some heavy criticisms from Celtics fans. Three years later, he’s returning to Boston as a member of the Dallas…
Massachusetts school officials are investigating a fifth-grade teacher who held a mock slave auction in class that involved students of color and said the N-word while reading a book that didn’t contain it. Gregory Martineau, the Superintendent of The Public Schools of Northborough and Southborough, sent parents a letter explaining two incidents involving an unidentified…
An American Airlines flight arrives at Los Angeles International Airport during Memorial Day weekend on May 24, 2024, in Los Angeles, California. | Source: AaronP/Bauer-Griffin / Getty The nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization is threatening to reinstate a travel advisory against American Airlines following “recent discriminatory actions” against Black passengers in what’s emerged…
Comedian Gary Owen is one of the few people that Katt Williams did not tear apart in his controversial interview on “Club Shay Shay” at the top of the year. In the interview with Shannon Sharpe which now has accrued over 70 million views, the “Woke Foke” comic spoke briefly about the “Think Like a…
A man who arrived at a comics convention event in Hangzhou, China, arrived in a costume that appeared to mock the 2020 helicopter crash that claimed the life of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna, and seven others. Fans of the NBA player are outraged after the unidentified individual wore what appeared to be a homemade…
Sean “Diddy” Combs speaks onstage during day 2 of REVOLT Summit x AT&T Summit on September 13, 2019, in Atlanta, Georgia. | Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Sean “Diddy” Combs has sold his majority stake in Revolt. He founded the media company back in 2013. Diddy’s once thought-to-be impregnable empire and reputation have been seemingly…
Authorities say a group of teenagers savagely beat a homeless man, streamed part of the assault on Instagram, and then left him next to a dumpster with grave injuries. Surveillance video captured the attack on May 26 in South Oklahoma City at a 7-Eleven gas station. According to KFOR, the victim, Tilman Shannon, was standing…
Serena and Venus Williams’ childhood Florida home where they mastered their tennis skills, soon could belong to the highest bidder at auction. The West Palm Gardens, Florida, residence was purchased in 1995 for a reported $355,000 by the sport phenoms’ parents, Richard Williams and Oracene Price. The family moved from Compton and into the home…
Wendell Pierce speaks onstage on May 11, 2024, in New York City. | Source: Bennett Raglin / Getty Apparently, money and notoriety aren’t even enough to shield Black people from housing discrimination, even when a famous Black person is trying to rent a place. Veteran actor Wendell Pierce, a Black man, revealed via X on…
A white, elderly property owner didn’t want to sell her Virginia condo to a Black buyer who offered nearly $750,000 for the property all because of her race, the potential homeowner says. Dr. Raven Baxter recounted her shock and disbelief to The New York Times after hearing why 84-year-old Jane Walker refused to sell her…
