On Monday, 22 days ahead of the midterm elections, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren released a heartfelt, five-minute video about her family heritage. In it, she visited her hometown of Norman, Oklahoma, where she and her brothers condemned Donald Trump’s racist nickname for her, Pocahontas. Then Warren leaned into…
Mollie Tibbetts was 20 years old when she disappeared on July 18, 2018. Tibbetts was taking an evening jog when Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a Mexican national working on a nearby farm, approached her and made advances, which she rejected. Instead of letting it go, he allegedly attacked her, stabbed her to death, and…
During a rare White House press briefing on Wednesday two black reporters questioned White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders about Donald Trump’s racist application of “law and order” and treatment of the Central Park Five.
Anyone else feel like today was a zillion hours long? Or is that just the news cycle?
At the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Sunday night, Barry Jenkins shared a personal story about an experience he had with a racist driver just as he was cresting a wave of newfound fame and recognition, before Moonlight won Best Picture.
Viola Davis is ready for folks to focus on the pay gap between white women and women of color in the entertainment industry.
As racists across the country melt down over Nike’s new Colin Kaepernick ad celebrating his activism, one Republican county official has resigned over Facebook posts that called black football players who protest police brutality “baboons” and “ignorant blacks.”
In a surprise upset for the establishment set, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum won the Democratic primary in Florida’s gubernatorial race on Tuesday night. Gillum beat out more moderate candidates like Gwen Graham and Phillip Levine who far outspent him. If elected he’ll be the first black governor of Florida.
While we celebrate that a record number of women are running for office, it’s worth considering the shit they put up with just to be heard. A group of current and former candidates talked to the New York Times about the harassment they’ve dealt with while campaigning. Their stories are depressing and sometimes…
The death of 20-year-old Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts has become a grotesque bit of political theater for Donald Trump and the racist right, but members of Tibbetts’s family have spoken out against those seeking to exploit the tragedy. Â
A few weekends ago, I got into a series of arguments with a white man I didn’t know at a housewarming party for someone else I didn’t really know. Somewhere between our civil shouting matches about #BlackLivesMatter, American policing, and “not seeing color” (an idea I find absurd and counterproductive), he took the…
CBS This Morning now has audio from Omarosa Manigault Newman of what she says is a conversation between Trump campaign officials about the existence of and potential spin on an Apprentice tape in which Donald Trump uses the N-word. A development that will shock precisely no one and change absolutely nothing.
Imagine that you’ve been hacked. What do you do? Maybe you spend two hours poking around the Internet for an answer, only to fuck up your computer so bad you need your neighbor’s kid to fix it. Maybe you call Geek Squad. Or, if you’re white, I guess you might freak out and call 9-1-1. But if you are Central New York…
Asking for plastic cutlery, sitting too long, and taking too long in the bathroom have all been alleged reasons for arresting black people at restaurants in 2018; questioning the restaurant’s credit card policy is also grounds for throwing a person out of the building, it seems. The Kansas City Star reports that the…
Congratulations to Georgia state Rep. Jason Spencer, who has succeeded where so, so many racists before him have failed: embarrassing the Republican Party to the point of being forced out.
Nearly one year after cities and states across the country began taking down Confederate monuments in response to a deadly gathering of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, a black man in Louisiana is arguing that a courthouse with a statue of a Confederate soldier at its entrance cannot fairly or…
Did Trump decide we’re just not gonna do this NATO shit anymore yet or what?
The deputy district attorney for the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office is extremely racist, turns out.
Apparently even willing to die for this country isn’t good enough for the Trump administration. The U.S. Army has been quietly kicking out immigrant recruits and reservists enlisted under a program that would grant them a pathway to citizenship. The Associated Press reports that at least 40 people have been discharged…
