‘We must pass laws to prevent election officials from jeopardizing the election process,’ said Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. Republican lawmakers in Texas have moved to introduce laws to tighten ID requirements, limit early voting and enhance consequences for errors. Read More: Oklahoma GOP lawmakers pass bill to protect drivers who hit protesters NBC News…
Ben Carson compared Black Republicans to runaway slaves and said they are victims of institutional racism during a recent interview on the “OUTLOUD with Gianno Caldwell” podcast. Another Black conservative, Caldwell said there was “a major attack on Black conservatives” — noting Carson has been called “a house N-word, a coon, any negative, disgusting name…
Source: SDI Productions / Getty It seems like at least once a year, a school or even an entire school district apologizes for a racist lesson gone wrong. This time around, Union County Public Schools in North Carolina is in the hot seat after a group of fourth-grade students was tasked with developing social media…
Hanover Square Press announced Tuesday that Merl Code’s ‘Black Market’ will be published in March 2022 A former point guard sentenced to prison in 2019 for his role in a college basketball bribery scheme has a book coming out next year. Hanover Square Press announced Tuesday that Merl Code’s “Black Market” will be published in…
OPINION: If we unpack the layers of systemic racism, we find that Black women and girls sit at the intersection in a way that can seem nearly impossible to fathom Last month, a 9-year-old Black girl in Rochester, NY was pepper sprayed by police — a headline we’ve seen far too often in this country…
Dozens of publicists said to skip Hollywood Foreign Press Association events until they had a plan for diversity. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has formally committed to having a 13-percent Black membership after a bombshell report last month from The Los Angeles Times revealed that there were none among its fold. The group, which annually…
The nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards were recently unveiled, and the list is more diverse than it’s ever been. However, one category appeared to have been overly represented and had many scratching their heads, including its nominee. Stars of the Shaka King directed drama-history film “Judas and the Black Messiah” LaKeith Stanfield and Daniel Kaluuya were nominated in…
The French Riviera festival on Tuesday announced that Lee will be president of the jury for the 74th Cannes Spike Lee, who was set to lead last year’s jury for the Cannes Film Festival that was ultimately canceled by the pandemic, will preside over this year’s jury instead. The French Riviera festival on Tuesday announced…
The ‘Pass the Love w/ Waffles + Mochi’ initiative is a collaborative campaign by the nonprofit Partnership for a Healthier America and its honorary chair Obama Michelle Obama is launching a nonprofit campaign that aims to provide more than 1 million meals to food-insecure families in connection with the debut Tuesday of her children’s food…
Nine jurors have been seated through Monday, including five who are white; one who is multiracial; two who are Black and one who is Hispanic The jurors seated so far in the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death are a diverse group, an element being closely scrutinized in a…
