Source: Richard Wolf / USA Today WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court may be on the verge of declaring victory in the fight against racial discrimination. Two cases nearing decisions by the court within weeks threaten to uproot affirmative action programs at the nation’s public colleges and universities and weaken a federal statute that guards against discriminatory [...]
Source: AP / The Huffington Post NEW YORK — PepsiCo pulled an online ad for Mountain Dew that was criticized for portraying racial stereotypes and making light of violence toward women. In the 60-second spot developed by African-American rapper Tyler, The Creator, a battered white woman on crutches is urged by an officer to identify [...]
Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Source: Alexa Valiente / ABC News A Texas schoolteacher, accused of inappropriately touching her student, allegedly told Texas police she’s too prejudiced to touch a black student. Irene Esther Stokes, 61, from Montgomery, reportedly told investigators that she did not touch the first grade student, and she “doesn’t like to touch the [...]
Roland Martin talks with Yolanda Spivey about her struggles to get a job and what she did to prove that her resume wasn’t the problem. Spivey explains how pretending to be a white woman named Bianca White landed her countless interviews while she struggled to get a call back with the same resume as a black woman.
Source: Clutch Magazine There was and still is a need for black women to be represented on the newsstands, both in magazines that target us and in mainstream magazines that embrace diversity. ThoughEssence Magazine caters to an audience of African-American women, many still champion the need for major magazines like Vogue, Vanity Fair and Cosmopolitan Magazine to feature ladies of all [...]
Source: Eric Deggans / Daily Download.com It‘s easy to sound like a broken record when you’re talking about the lack of diversity among major cable TV news anchors. Critic and columnist Rachel Sklar wrote about it back in 2010, with a trenchant piece for the Daily Beast called “The Unbearable Whiteness of Cable” around the [...]
Brooke talks with a roundtable panel about a controversial article titled ‘Being White in Philly”. WATCH:
Source: Mike Dougherty / CBS Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA – A controversial article published in Philadelphia Magazine this month has the attention of the Nutter Administration. The article, titled “Being White in Philly,” features a series of interviews with anonymous white residents from different areas of the city who share stories about their interaction with black residents. Mayor Nutter calls the [...]
African Americans are facing racism within the LGBT community. Dr. Darlene Nipper, deputy executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force; Cleo Manago, CEO and founder of Black Men’s Xchange; and Earl Fowlkes, president and CEO of the Center for Black Equity joined Roland Martin on the set of Washington Watch to discuss [...]
Same-sex marriage. Any discrimination against gays in federal hiring. “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is no longer the law of the land. All of these issues are at the forefront today as the LGBT community lays out an aggressive equality agenda; but within the LGBT community there is a quiet, but steady, drumbeat that the same [...]
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