Racism

April Ryan writes for Black Press USA: “This president is a master of distraction and is destroying what it took 250 years to build. Here’s another distraction in his quest for attention. Another failure of his first 100 days,” said North Carolina Rep. Alma Adams, responding to efforts to physically remove the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth’s lunch counter exhibit from …

The Mississippi Free Press reports: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi, keeping alive a 32-year-old tradition that began in 1993.  A member of the Rankin Greys, a Sons of Confederate Veterans camp based in Florence, Mississippi, announced the proclamation in a post in the organization’s Facebook group on April 18. The SCV …

“America is not a nation ‘built by immigrants.’ America was built by settlers. There’s a difference. Settlers ventured out into the wilderness to build a civilization from scratch. The modern immigrant comes to a place that is already built. Settlers planted the trees. The modern immigrant comes to eat the fruits. If you cannot see the difference, I don’t know …

NBC News reports: The military story of Jackie Robinson, who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball after serving as a 2nd lieutenant in the Army, no longer exists on the Department of Defense’s website as part of the Trump administration’s wiping out of diversity, equity and inclusion within the federal government. Robinson trained as an officer and was …

NPR reports: After a recent change by the Trump administration, the federal government no longer explicitly prohibits contractors from having segregated restaurants, waiting rooms and drinking fountains. The segregation clause is one of several identified in a public memo issued by the General Services Administration last month, affecting all civil federal agencies. The memo explains that it is making changes prompted …

Axios reports: Articles about the renowned Native American Code Talkers have disappeared from some military websites, with several broken URLs now labeled “DEI.” From 1942 to 1945, the Navajo Code Talkers were instrumental in every major Marine Corps operation in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Axios identified at least 10 articles mentioning the Code Talkers that had disappeared …

The Texas Tribune reports: The U.S. Justice Department withdrew from a lawsuit alleging that Texas’ legislative and congressional district maps drawn after the 2020 U.S. census discriminated against Latino and Black voters by denying them an equal opportunity to participate in the electoral process. The department made the decision last week, according to court filings. It’s the latest in a series …

“Rep. Houla-whatever. Houlahan, houla-ha, she has decided that she was getting far too many attacks from her base for voting against the censure of Rep. Al Green and decided to attack me for referencing his cane as a pimp cane. “And Grant, I stand by it. I have never seen Al Green actually use his cane as a support to …

The New Republic reports: Republicans have censured Representative Al Green and petitioned to strip him of his committee assignments for interrupting Donald Trump’s speech to Congress. But by Friday, Representative Lauren Boebert had decided to sling some mud on the situation for good measure. “For him to go and shake his pimp cane at President Trump was absolutely abhorrent,” Boebert, …

Mediaite reports: The official campaign account of House Republicans referred to Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) as “an illegal immigrant” on Wednesday, prompting fierce backlash. On Tuesday night, Espaillat delivered the Spanish-language response to President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress. The lawmaker, who represents parts of Manhattan and the Bronx as part of New York’s 13th congressional …

Washington DC’s ABC affiliate reports: A representative from Georgia is proposing that Congress stop giving D.C. some funding unless Mayor Muriel Bowser renames Black Lives Matter Plaza and removes the phrase from the street. Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) introduced House Resolution 1774 on Monday to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. According to the Congress bill tracker website, it …

NBC News reports: An Illinois man was found guilty Friday in the fatal stabbing of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy and the wounding of his mother, an attack that prosecutors said was motivated by anti-Muslim hate and a response to the Israel-Hamas War. Joseph Czuba was convicted of first-degree murder, attempted murder, aggravated battery and hate crimes in the Oct. …

The Daily Beast reports: Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene—the evolution-denying, QAnon-promoting conspiracy theorist known for calling the 2018 Parkland, Florida, school shooting a false flag operation and for confusing the name of the secret Nazi police force with a cold soup—gave more oxygen this week to the long-debunked, racist conspiracy pushed by the likes of Donald Trump that former President …

Media Matters has the transcript: The game ended up being a clash between America’s fading woke culture and a return to normalcy that Americans have been begging for since the plague of wokeness arrived. But woke, of course, is a hard stain to remove. Last night, the NFL gave us unquestionably the worst halftime show we have ever seen. A …

The Huffington Post reports: Conservatives melted down over Kendrick Lamar’s performance at the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday. Some of President Donald Trump’s MAGA acolytes said they couldn’t understand what the Grammy Award-winning musician was rapping about during his set. Others suggested he was somehow in league with the devil. Actor Samuel L. Jackson’s appearance as Uncle Sam has …

“I cannot overstate how much I loathe this emotional blackmail pretending to be concern. My kids, god willing, will be risk takers. They won’t think constantly about whether a flippant comment or a wrong viewpoint will follow them around for the rest of their lives. “They will tell stupid jokes. They will develop views that they later think are wrong …

Forbes reports: One of the workers at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency most involved in the agency’s access to the Treasury Department’s payment system reportedly resigned Thursday after racist social media posts tied to him surfaced—the latest in the line of controversy and criticism surrounding DOGE. Marko Elez, one of the two primary DOGE emissaries embedded in the Treasury …

Reuters reports: Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he won’t attend a Group of 20 summit in Johannesburg later this month, citing among his reasons South Africa’s efforts to address inequality. “South Africa is doing very bad things. Expropriating private property. Using G20 to promote ‘solidarity, equality, & sustainability.’ In other words: DEI and climate change,” Rubio said in a …

Baltimore’s NBC affiliate reports: The city of Baltimore is suing the Trump administration, alleging the president’s executive orders ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs violate the First and Fifth amendments. The city is part of a broad coalition that includes higher education officers to file a lawsuit Monday in a Maryland federal court. The suit alleges the executive orders violate …

The Daily Beast reports: Elon Musk has appeared to endorse a message about race-based emigration from his native South Africa, after President Donald Trump threatened the country over new land expropriation laws. Trump railed against the new law, calling it a “human rights VIOLATION” and threatening to cut funding to the country in response. Musk quoted an X message by …