The Metropolitan Police Service and the Lambeth London Borough Council must pay the Nation of Islam $130,000 in damages, England’s High Court of Justice ruled on Monday. Justice Neil Stephen Garnham ruled that the two agencies conspired to prevent Minister Louis Farrakhan from giving a speech about slavery reparations in 2017. In doing so, the…
Donald Glover doesn’t tweet often, but when he does the internet notices. The Emmy Award-winning actor hopped onto the platform in the wee hours of the morning to offer his opinion about the cause of the influx of “boring” content available for entertainment viewers and ended up sparking a different debate entirely. The “This Is…
A Black North Carolina man said he was threatened and forced to quit after reporting a coworker for discrimination. Kevin Ellis, who worked for McDermott International Inc. in Arden outside of Asheville, had reported a coworker for allegedly making racist remarks, according to a May 5 civil lawsuit filed in federal court. While the employee…
“I know that some may say, “DeWine, you’re crazy! This million-dollar drawing idea of yours is a waste of money,” DeWine said on Twitter. “But truly, the real waste at this point in the pandemic — when the vaccine is readily available to anyone who wants it — is a life lost to COVID-19.” Ohio…
Indiana’s Carlette Duffy was shocked to see her home value double after she had a white pal replace her for an appraisal. An Indiana woman was shocked to see her home appraisal value double after she stripped her home of Blackness and had a white friend replace her during an appraisal. Carlette Duffy said she…
Veterans of the campaign that Martin Luther King Jr. helped lead to eradicate racial segregation in Birmingham nearly 60 years ago remain firmly in the corner of racial justice now Charles Avery had barely started marching when police arrested him, forced him into a police vehicle and took him to jail for participating in landmark…
McDonald’s, Sheetz and Chipotle are just some of the latest companies to follow Amazon, Walmart and Costco in boosting wages, in some cases to $15 an hour or higher U.S. restaurants and stores are rapidly raising pay in an urgent effort to attract more applicants and keep up with a flood of customers as the…
As a wildly successful comedian and Hollywood actress, Tiffany Haddish appears to have very little to cry about. However, that was exactly what she was challenged to do on the set of her new film. “Here Today” is Haddish’s new film that also stars Billy Crystal, who served as the director as well. The movie…
Nicole Pyles was playing softball in April when two umpires told her to take the beads out of her hair or leave the game. A Black female softball player in Durham, North Carolina was told to cut her hair or leave a game by two umpires. Nicole Pyles, 16, told a local news outlet she…
The amendment’s effects, if approved by voters, are uncertain, but civil rights groups say it potentially could lead to policy changes in housing, policing and education Protests over George Floyd’s killing at the hands of Minneapolis police were raging across the country last June when a Democratic lawmaker took to the floor of the Pennsylvania…
