rancesca Amewudah-Rivers should be celebrating the good news about landing the role of Juliet in a London West End production of Romeo & Juliet. Instead, she had to endure racist criticism, but thankfully, she has an industry of peers to stand in support of her.
In 2020, the world was already reeling from a pandemic when George Floyd lay dying on a Minneapolis street.
One baseball announcer had a slip up on-air of epic proportions. The Oakland Athletics are the laughingstock of Major League Baseball due to their deplorable stadium conditions, and now their play-by-announcer, Glen Kuiper has Black folks looking at him sideways. Glen Kuiper quickly said he was sorry after “accidentally” said the N-word, the one with […]
Jerry Jones Appears In Photo At 1950s Desegregation Rally, Twitter Reacts
"The President of the United States does not have meetings with Elon Musk... That's f***ing ret***ed. I know I'm not supposed to say that Biden, but that's f***ing ret***ed, Biden... Obviously, because I've been deemed with mental health [struggles], I have the right to use whatever words that I like to use." - Kanye West on "Piers Morgan Uncensored"
“I didn’t know people was this racist... I thought this shit was gone already, I thought that shit was gone! I thought Martin Luther King [Jr.] canceled that shit out!" -rapper DDG on a recent episode of the "Bootleg Kev" podcast
"I said it before and I'm gonna say it again, there is no place in this league for [misogyny, sexism, and racism...] We hold our league up as an example of our values and this aint [sic] it." -LeBron James
BYU Failed To Protect Black Duke Volleyball Athlete From Racist Fan, Then Failed Again IN Addressing The Incident
"I'ma cop a nice home to provide in/ A safe environment for seeds to reside in/ A fresh whip for my whole family to ride in/ And if I'm still Mr. Nigga, I won't find it surprising" - Mos Def, "Mr. Nigga"
You can add playing fictional characters in a fantasy Sci-Fi series to the long list of things Black people can't do without being harassed.
A rumble almost went down in the Bronx after Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson accused New York Yankees' slugger Josh Donaldson of making a "racist" remark to him.
"Develop a negative into a positive picture" -Lauryn Hill, "Everything Is Everything"
