WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A teacher has resigned from a North Carolina charter school after telling Black students in her class that if not for the Constitution, they would be her “field slaves,” a comment that one parent said brought attention to other racist incidents at the school. Winterville Charter Academy sent a memo which […]
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) — A sheriff’s deputy who was involved in the fatal shooting of an unarmed Black man in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, is resigning, the Pasquotank County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement on Friday. The statement from Sheriff Tommy S. Wooten II provides no reason for Aaron Lewellyn’s departure. The deputy is using […]
Laura Italiano, a reporter for the New York Post, has resigned after she wrote an erroneous story that stated that Vice President Kamala Harris was giving her book to children who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border. Italiano announced her resignation on Twitter, saying she was unsuccessful in trying to push back against the story. “The Kamala Harris story — an incorrect […]
The officer who shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright in a Minnesota suburb on Sunday has resigned. Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon who said in a press conference Monday that the shooting was accidental, also announced his resignation. On Tuesday, Kim Potter, a 26 year veteran of the Brooklyn Police department announced her resignation in […]
The president of a historically Black university in Florida abruptly left his position to become a leader at a Massachusetts university. According to HBCU Buzz, the former leader of Bethune-Cookman University, LaBrent Chrite, will become the president of one of the top business schools in the northeast, Bentley University. Chrite becomes the first Black person […]
Former Axios reporter Alexi McCammond has parted ways with Teen Vogue after employees of the magazine raised concerns about her past xenophobic tweets about the Asian community. In 2011, when McCammond was 17, she tweeted “googling how to not wake up with swollen, Asian eyes,” and in another tweet called a teacher’s assistant at her […]
Coming off of Monday’s tumultuous discussion about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle‘s interview, British news anchor Piers Morgan stormed off the set of his show Good Morning Britain after his co-host kindly put him in his place. During Tuesday’s taping of the show, co-host Alex Beresford expressed the need for compassion and understanding for the […]