Tag: Race in America
Martin Luther King Day and Race in America
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Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929. By an act of Congress in 1983, this day is commemorated on the...
Health: Reflections on Chadwick Boseman’s Death
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Chadwick Boseman, an American actor best known for his portrayal of King T'Challa in the Marvel/Disney movie "Black Panther," died August 28, 2020. ...
Mayor Buttigieg, Role Models, and Race
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In recent days, words spoken by Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, 8 years ago have come back to haunt him as...
Don Lemon on Kanye’s Trump rant: Didn’t want to hear that B.S.
CNN's Don Lemon slams Kanye West's appearance on "Saturday Night Live," posing the question on whether West's political rant was a publicity stunt.
Report: GOP official resigns after calling kneeling NFL players ‘baboons’
According to the Beaver County Times, Carla Maloney, a Republican county official in Pennsylvania, has resigned after it was revealed that she'd written Facebook posts referring to kneeling NFL players as "baboons."
Panelist on WH diversity: No one wants to work for a racist
Commentator and former Congressional Black Caucus Executive Director Angela Rye blasted Gina Loudon, a member of President Trump's 2020 Advisory Council, over her "nonsense" talking points about black staffers at the White House.
Lemon: A Trump tape wouldn’t change anything
CNN's Don Lemon says he has many tapes where President Donald Trump was acting beneath the office of the President; a tape of Trump purportedly saying the n-word would change nothing.
New York Times writer’s anti-white tweets cause outrage
The New York Times is trying to defuse the uproar created by their new hire Sarah Jeong after anti-white tweets, some dating back five years, surfaced.
Michael Eric Dyson: Trump talks like a racist, thinks like a racist
Michael Eric Dyson, author of "What Truth Sounds Like," responds to a new Quinnipiac University poll that reports 49% of Americans said they believe President Donald Trump to be a racist while 47% believe he is not.
D.L. Hughley on getting advice from white people
Comedian D.L. Hughley spoke to CNN’s Michael Smerconish about how an interview about race became the background for his new book “How Not to Get Shot: And Other Advice From White People.”
