A fan taunted one of the National Hockey Leagues few Black players by throwing a banana peel at the player during a shootout attempt in a preseason game last week. The player, Philadelphia Flyers Wayne Simmonds, said he wasn’t shocked by the banana peel that came from the top level and landed right in front […]
At least four Arizona State fans attended Saturday’s college football game against the University of Missouri in Blackface. The broadcast, which aired on ESPN, showed four young white women with their faces, necks and arms painted all Black. Arizona State would win 37-30, thus validating the practice of white (and other) folks painting their faces […]
I’m criticized incessantly at my Factotum-type day gig—well, actually not at the gig, because I’m the HNIC there, but every month we have this thing, a Manager’s call, where bosses from sites around the country phone in and discuss topics. I dread these things like the Black Death. Without fail, there’s some nit to pick […]
Vogue Italia’s recent “slave earrings” fashion feature has made heads turn. The same magazine that debuted it’s all-black model issue three years ago has just taken several steps way back. Oh, tell me fashion bible, what exactly is a slave earring? Are there ships and sickles involved? No? Then how can, as you’ve written, a […]
Skin care brand Nivea is currently pushing its line of men’s grooming products with ads telling men to step their appearance game up. That’s great but, um, unfortunately they’ve decided to take a shot at our afroed brothers: Post-Racial America, ladies and gents! Unsurprisingly, the internet uproar got back to the folks at the company […]
Nivea has apologized for an advertisement they placed in Esquire that featured a clean cut African American male throwing a mask of a face with an Afro and beard with the title “Look Like You Give a Damn. Re-civilize Yourself.” People quickly turned to social networking and Twitter to voice displeasure over the ad. “The […]
Black women are complaining that the Transportation Security Administration is engaging in a new, humiliating brand of racial profiling: pat-downs of long, natural hair-dos. According to an article by Joe Sharkey in the New York Times, these body searches are happening even when total-body scans aren’t setting off alarms: On June 30, a young African-American […]
A new report from the Applied Research Center found that a majority of young people understand that race continues to play a significant role in education, the criminal justice system, immigration, employment and other sectors of society. TheGrio.com writer David A. Love analyzes the “millennial attitude,” positing that the youth don’t really understand how racism […]
I wrote this article in January of 2009, but felt it was relevant again due to the riots in London and other cities in the U.K. As we can see in the article, the riots in the U.K. should be of no surprise, as history shows us that poverty, discrimination, unemployment and police brutality often […]
MINNEAPOLIS — A Black student at a predominantly white high school outside of Minneapolis has filed a federal class action lawsuit against her school for supporting an annual “wigger day” celebration. Quera Pruitt, who attends Red Wing High School, claims that the school was indifferent to the harm this day did to their Black student […]
Intruders ramsacked the home of an 83-year-old Chicago woman on Friday, defacing her home with the n-word to deter her welcoming her nurse’s aide, who happens to be Black, into her home. After suffering health issues last year, Lucia DeFrancesco needed the help of a nurse’s aide. Her aide is Black, which the racist intruders […]
A Houston man is alleging that once he moved into his upscale Houston neighborhood, the racism followed. David Williams, a 24-year-old African American website owner originally from Boston, moved to the Houston neighborhood where homes are valued from $400,000 to $3 million earlier this year. When he arrived, he said he noticed that people looked […]
