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  • Oldest US Park Ranger Beaten and Robbed in Her Home; Presidential Coin Stolen

    The nation’s oldest full-time park ranger was brutally attacked in her San Francisco Bay Area home after a robber broke in and stole a coin she received from President Barack Obama. According to Fox News, 94-year-old Betty Reid Soskin, who works as an interpretive ranger at the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front…

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  • Pentagon Lifts Ban on Transgender Service Members in the Military

    The Pentagon has ended the ban on transgender people in the military, Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter announced at a press conference Thursday, the Washington Post reports. According to the Post, the decision to lift the ban comes after a yearlong struggle with senior officials on how exactly the change would be made. The Post…

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  • Stacey Dash Calls Jesse Williams a ‘Hollywood Plantation Slave’

    In what I’m sure will turn into a pretty-people food fight, Stacey “Republican” Dash has come for Jesse Williams. On her blog (which no one has heard of or reads), Stacey “Clueless” Dash decided to attack the next president of black America in response to the moving speech on race and police brutality he gave…

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  • Poll: Donald Trump Has 1 Percent of Black-Voter Support

    Surprise! Donald Trump isn’t faring well with African-American voters. A new Quinnipiac University poll shows that Hillary Clinton is doing extraordinarily well with African-American voters and has a commanding 91 percent-to-1 percent lead over the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. But despite Clinton’s enormous lead with African-American voters, the poll also shows that the race to the…

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  • Watch: Woman Hurls Racist Rant at Reporter: 'Get the F–k Out of Here, You Stupid F–king N–ger'

    On Tuesday, reporter Emmy Victor of news station KCCI was reporting on an officer-involved shooting in Boone, Iowa, when a woman began hurling hateful racial epithets at her during her broadcast. In video footage, Victor—who is black—can be seen backing up as a white woman shouts, “Get the [f—k] out of here, you stupid [f—king…

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  • Lee Wesley Gibson, the Oldest Pullman Porter, Dies at 106

    Lee Wesley Gibson, believed to have been the oldest living Pullman porter, died Saturday at his home, surrounded by family. He was 106 years old. “He had just celebrated his birthday five weeks earlier and he thanked everyone,” family friend Rosalind Stevenson told the Los Angeles Times. Gibson started working as a coach attendant with…

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  • Report: Race Relations in US Are Still Bad

    Almost eight years after the election of the nation’s first black president, a new study finds that the racial divide between whites and blacks in America is still at Grand Canyon levels—which proves that a racially harmonious country remains an elusive dream that even the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would have had trouble envisioning.…

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  • Broken Bezels and Squashed Beef: The 10 Best and Worst BET Awards Moments

    BET: So easy to make fun of, and yet black people still watch it. Thankfully, between the showings of Baby Boy and reruns of Eve, the network also gifts us with award shows. Beautiful, terrible, car-crash-quality-with-moments-of-spectacular-brilliance award shows. This Sunday, all of Twitter will be watching to see if BET delivers on its promise to…

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  • In Defense of #TeamLightSkin

    It’s 1986, and I’m 10 years old on the blacktop at my elementary school. Several other classmates and I are using the monkey bars as a hoop and a tennis ball to shoot with. Before we begin our low-budget version of basketball, a familiar refrain goes around. “Who are you?” “I’m Michael Jordan,” one kid…

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  • Racist Seeking Racist: How the Internet Helped Create Dylann Roof

    Before accused South Carolina church shooter Dylann Roof one year ago walked into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, where parishioners welcomed him into their Bible study, he was “locked in his room looking up bad stuff on his computer,” Paige Mann, Roof’s former stepmother, told Time. “Something on the computer drew him in—this internet evil.” Roof…

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