Samaria Rice has issued a statement responding to the Cuyahoga County grand jury’s failure to indict either of the two police officers involved in the fatal November 2014 shooting of her son, Tamir Rice. Twelve-year-old Rice was shot to death by Tim Loehmann on the playground after Loehmann and fellow officer Frank…
2015 is almost over, right? Jezebel alum Lindy West brings to our attention an interview with an apparently idiotic 41-year-old by the name of Dustin Hill, who leads a band of five white men calling themselves “Black Pussy.” The band claims they’re named after Rolling Stones’ original title for the song “Brown Sugar,”…
Observations like Tinashe’s most recent in an xoNecole profile are so categorically obvious that it’s frustrating that they must be said time and again: the entertainment industry as a whole has a racial bias against black women, which adversely affects all the black women within it.
On Monday, December 21 a new court date was announced for William Porter, the first of the six police officers to be tried for their involvement in the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray. Porter’s trial ended last week with a hung jury; it will recommence on June 13, 2016.
Today’s lesson in how not to invoke racist and sexist stereotypes that belittles the work of women of color involves the Seattle Times, who described longtime Macklemore collaborator (and one-time Jezebel contributor) Hollis Wong-Wear as his “sidekick” in the headline of a piece about her band, The Flavr Blue.
Sam’s Club, a discount warehouse store owned by Wal-Mart, could be criticized for any number of things, including huge job cuts, poor employee conditions, or its willingness to sell you a barrel of Jack Daniels. The thing people are choosing to criticize the company for is much, much more stupid.
In Missouri, a local Republican is pitching a law that would strip athletes of their scholarships if they participate in protests. The legislation is a response to the University of Missouri football team refusing to play during recent student civil disobedience at their Columbia campus, and a very bad response at…
Recently Supreme Court Justice and noted delightful human Antonin Scalia claimed that affirmative action prevents African Americans from becoming scientists. As it happens, actual science-practicing scientists disagree, and have composed an open letter to SCOTUS saying as much.
New research on Airbnb use may not surprise you: users with “black-sounding” names have a harder time booking rooms than users with “white-sounding” names. Great.
Today we were reminded yet again that an out-and-out racist is allowed to sit on the highest court in the land. The oral arguments for the Supreme Court’s affirmative action case were heard today and included the devil incarnate Justice Antonin Scalia suggesting that black students are better off going to easier…
On September 16, 2015, 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school because, according to his school principal, the device looked like a bomb. As of Friday, December 4, the Department of Justice has begun investigating whether the teenager’s civil rights were violated.
Alabama State Rep. Alan Harper, age 58 and “very, very white” according to the Daily Beast, looks like the villain in every Disney movie starring an animal. On Monday, this leader of the American South shared a message with his 2,551 Facebook friends: embrace the holiday spirit and boycott stores owned by immigrants.
Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke, imprisoned for fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, left jail on Monday night. Although charged with first degree murder for McDonald’s death, Van Dyke was released after less than a week of incarceration because, according to his lawyer, he “[doesn’t] pose a flight…
On Monday, after publicizing a press conference promising the endorsement of 100 black pastors who then said they never actually endorsed him, The Donald said they were pressured into saying that. Or maybe they simply realized they were being played?
Ahmed Mohamed—the teen who brought a homemade clock to school and was arrested because a teacher thought it was a bomb—is, along with his family, suing the city of Irving and its school district for $15 million and a gaggle of apologies. Ahmed’s not fucking around.
What if I told you that you could lose 15 lbs. in five months with no calorie-counting, treadmills, or embarrassing weigh-ins? You can even eat snacks. All you have to do is work yourself into blindly racist huff one-to-three times per day, and you will see results. Just ask Donald Trump!
During the week of Halloween, Yale University’s Intercultural Affairs Council sent a campus-wide memo, appealing for students to be sensitive about their costumes. Days later, a faculty member opposed the minority conglomerate’s memo in a letter, invoking free speech. On Halloween Eve, a frat brother allegedly denied…
A good rule of thumb for processing this unexpected, long-time-coming season of college students protesting the white bias built into the mainstream American university system: anyone who takes anti-racism protestors as more troubling than the racism they’re protesting probably has quite a bit of personal investment…
After Tim Wolfe stepped down earlier this week, the University of Missouri has appointed an interim president. Michael Middleton was chosen by the school’s governing board on Thursday.
On Wednesday, Dale Brigham, a professor at University of Missouri, offered his resignation after shrugging off student safety fears in an email that went viral online.
