Sorority sisters in New Mexico are under fire for allegedly making racist remarks during a welcome event for new members, according to reports. The University of New Mexico chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma is under investigation following complaints that members mocked an African-American speaker Sept. 17 at a Greek life summit, news station KOAT reported. “This... Continue Reading →
University of Alabama student, Danielle McDuffie, is calling on volunteers for a study she is carrying out on the ability of faith to help those who are grieving from falling into depression. She is particularly interested in honing on the middle-aged/senior African-American population, because although there are a plethora of studies on the ability of... Continue Reading →
Sir Geoff Palmer, Scotland’s first black professor, has welcomed a groundbreaking report into how Glasgow University benefited from the proceeds of slavery. He said it posed “uncomfortable questions” for British society as a whole and called on institutions that had profited from the slave trade to make amends. The report, published last week by Glasgow... Continue Reading →
The preacher stood wearily on stage, wiping tears from his eyes. The mayor, working to bring healing to a city of 1.3 million, sought solace on a front pew. Allison Jean, mourning the fatal shooting of her son Botham Shem Jean by a police officer, wailed as the 250-member, predominantly black congregation sang hymns such... Continue Reading →
A Nashville pastor thinks black leaders working for justice can find encouragement in the Colin Kaepernick story, especially while President Donald Trump is in office. The Rev. James Turner II, who leads New Hope Baptist Church, drew comparisons between the fallout of the former NFL quarterback's protests and a Bible story in the Book of Daniel as he... Continue Reading →
In front of jurors in the trial of a white Chicago police officer charged with murder in the shooting of a black teenager, race is hardly mentioned at all. Just once, during opening statements, have prosecutors even brought up the fact that 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was black, drawing a sharp rebuke from a defense attorney... Continue Reading →
After holding his tongue for a week, President Donald Trump sarcastically assailed the woman claiming a decades-old sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, tweeting that if the episode was “as bad as she says,” she or “her loving parents” surely would have reported it to law enforcement. Trump’s searing reproach of Christine Blasey... Continue Reading →
During the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s (CBCF) 48th Annual Phoenix Award Dinner at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., Aretha Franklin was named the first recipient of the John R. Lewis Award of Courage by the CBCF and the organization’s chairperson, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas). The award was presented by Lewis, Jackson Lee, and... Continue Reading →
When Max Adler received a tiny drawing of a golf course in the mail, his interest was piqued. But it was the accompanying letter that sent the Golf Digest editorial director on a six-year journey to help free artist Valentino Dixon from a New York prison. In the letter, Dixon, who had been convicted of murder in... Continue Reading →
A former Southwest Airlines employee is alleging in a discrimination lawsuit filed in federal court Wednesday that airline workers once had a “whites-only” break room at Houston’s Hobby Airport. Southwest Airlines was aware of the “whites-only area,” which existed for years until a recent renovation, the lawsuit claims. Jamel Parker, who was fired from the... Continue Reading →
On Sept. 6, Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger entered what she says she thought was her apartment, saw Botham Jean, who she says she thought was an intruder, and shot and killed him. Guyger had instead entered Jean's apartment. News of the shooting has prompted protests against what many consider an instance of police violence... Continue Reading →
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — Four Tennessee teens are accused of burglarizing a predominantly black church and scrawling racist graffiti there. News outlets report a Rutherford County sheriff’s deputy responding to Walnut Grove Missionary Baptist Church found “KKK” written in a destroyed Bible and “We are white and we are watching you, white power” on the... Continue Reading →
Dr. Martin Luther King’s first visits to Southern California included Missionary Baptist Church and Caltech in Pasadena. Some 60 years later our nation appears to be just as divided and Dr. Vincent Lloyd argued in his book Black Natural Law “that from Frederick Douglass to Anna Julia Cooper to Dr. King, religious ideas about God’s... Continue Reading →
Activist and former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick and comedian Dave Chappelle will be among eight people honored with Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Medal, the university announced Thursday. “The medal honors those who have made significant contributions to African and African-American history and culture, and more broadly, individuals who advocate for intercultural understanding and human... Continue Reading →
A Delaware wife angry about her husband's alleged infidelity was arrested after she repeatedly tried to run his mistress over with a car, police said. Dover cops were called to the parking lot of the Country Club Apartments on Monday afternoon where a 41-year-old woman reported that Keyon Smith tried multiple times to hit her... Continue Reading →
