A Massachusetts restaurant has released an apology after a Black woman had an unpleasant experience in the establishment describing it as “blatant racism” in a TikTok video. TikTok user @tiktoksbyalexa says she and her friends went to the Cardboard Box, a restaurant in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts on Aug. 10 when the incident took place. Their […]
Michigan man has been charged with three charges including ethnic intimidation after he was alleged to have yelled racial slurs and attacked a Black father at a Staybridge Suites hotel earlier this month. Joel Venema of Kent County, Michigan allegedly attacked Jackie Beard Jr, while he was with his family on Aug 7. Beard told […]
An Indian teen was allegedly killed by family members in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh for wearing jeans instead of traditional clothing. 17-year-old Neha Paswan was allegedly beaten to death by members of her family in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh because they didn’t like her wearing jeans. pic.twitter.com/czrO0WQZab — Imran Ahmed (@janaan99) […]
A Black woman who was wrongly accused by a white woman of selling drugs in a Sacramento, California neighborhood says she doesn’t want the “Karen” to be canceled. Ronnie Marie Paiva said she doesn’t want the unidentified woman to lose her job and has instructed people to instead respond to the white woman with kindness, […]
A 29-year-old Mississippi man spent 8 months in jail despite surveillance video showing he wasn’t at the scene of the crime he was accused of. Arthur Jones, also known as AJ, was 23 years old in July 2015 when he was arrested in the murder case of Jabarri Goudy, 17, who was shot twice outside […]
A Michigan couple is considering legal action after their teen daughter was banned from a local skating rink. This comes after being misidentified by facial recognition software. Juliea and her husband Derrick Robinson are outraged calling the incident “basically racial profiling” after the Riverside Arena skating rink in the Detroit suburb of Livonia, Michigan banned […]
Cellphone video released this week shows an incident involving David Crowell, a 29-year-old Black man who was tased by New York police on a subway train after being accused of allowing a rider onto the station without paying. The video, recorded by a bystander, shows several officers trying to restrain Crowell before shooting him with a […]
Chef and cookbook author Darius “Cooks” Williams, better known as Darius Cooks, opened up about allegations of him stealing money, illegal credit repair practices, bullying Black women, ripping off business partners and more, Black Enterprise reports. Due to the number of accusations, particularly stemming from chef and food blogger Angela Davis, also known as “The […]
Update (July 7, 2021): Jazmyn Suszynski, a resident who says she was harassed by Edward Cagney Mathews for over a year, talked about feeling traumatized by her former neighbor after he made her year of living in Mount Laurel “horrible.” Suszynski noted that after she moved away from the complex, Mathews began harassing her after he […]
Two Namibian teen athletes were forced to withdraw from the 400m event for the Tokyo Olympics because their testosterone levels were too high. However, the president of Namibia’s National Olympic Committee, Abner Xoagub, said that information was supposed to remain confidential, All Africa reported. Xoagub said World Athletics made a deal to not release […]