By Kimberley Johnson on
cocaine, drugs, Racial Issues
Racial Issues, Videos
Dr. Farrah Gray posted the video and status below on November 28. It is a news story from earlier this year about a black business owner in Schenectady County who was targeted and framed by police. An undercover informant entered the smoke shop owned by Donald Andrews, placed crack cocaine on the counter and then […]
By Samuel Warde on
Bill Cosby, Fox News, Racial Issues, Racism, Videos, Women's issues
Fox News, Racial Issues, Scandals, Videos, Women's Issues
Fox News has jumped into the controversy surrounding rape allegations made against Bill Cosby. Taking the position that “liberals are turning on Bill Cosby over rape allegations,” Fox News host Howard Kurtz claims Cosby’s treatment by the media is driven by distinctions between how conservatives view Cosby versus the opinions of liberals. Kurtz writes and […]
By Samuel Warde on
Berkeley, Bill Maher, Free Speech, Racial Issues, Racism, Videos
Free Speech, Racial Issues, Videos
As the Los Angeles Times reports, “there’s a special kind of irony emanating right now from the UC Berkeley campus. A group of offended students is trying to get the political satirist Bill Maher banned as the school’s winter graduation speaker, even as the campus is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement.” […]
By Samuel Warde on
civil rights, Diversity, Racial Issues, Racism, The Civil Rights Movement, Voting Rights
Activism, Civil Rights, Racial Issues, Social Justice
Next year marks the sesquicentennial anniversary of the nation’s Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude. That amendment, the first of three Reconstruction Amendments, was passed by the Senate on April 8, 1864, by the House on January 31, 1865, and adopted on December 6, 1865. The Fourteenth Amendment was adopted […]
By Samuel Warde on
Bill O'Reilly, Interviews, Jon Stewart, Racial Issues, Videos, White Privilege
Interviews, Racial Issues, Videos
Bill O’Reilly and Jon Stewart faced off about the existence of “white privilege’ on Wednesdays Daily Show. Things got heated as the two of them repeatedly talked over each other and made snide remarks for most of the 12-minute segment. At one point, Bill O’Reilly engaged the audience directly exclaiming: “You think I’m sitting here […]