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A former University of Kentucky student who launched a drunken, racist tirade against a Black student has been denied early release after serving only a fraction of her sentence. In a now-viral video, Sophia Rosing was filmed using the N-word over 200 times while physically attacking Kylah Spring, a fellow student working at the dormitory’s […]
I found myself cheating on CNN, where I’m a political commentator, with MSNBC last weekend. I just had to watch my friend, Nikole Hannah-Jones, articulate a great point that many have missed: Donald Trump is pursuing a racial agenda, not an economic one. This isn’t historically novel. Most progress is met by this kind of […]
The ink had barely dried on the Treaty of Versailles, which formally ended World War I, when recently returned black veterans grabbed their guns and stationed themselves on rooftops in black neighborhoods in Washington D.C., prepared to act as snipers in the case of mob violence in July of 1919. Others set up blockades around […]
Jan 22, 2025 05:23 PM IST An African-American YouTuber reconnected with the “second most racist man in America” after their first meeting nearly two and half years ago. An African-American YouTuber’s video of meeting a racist man and striking up a friendship with him has social media’s hearts. In the video, he reconnects with the […]
Mahatma Gandhi has been variously described as an anti-colonial protester, a religious thinker, a pragmatist, a radical who used non-violence effectively to fight for causes, a canny politician and a whimsical Hindu patriarch. But was India’s greatest leader also a racist? The authors of a controversial new book on Gandhi’s life and work in South […]
Summary: This spotlight details the racist history of tipping, federal and state policy governing tipped work, and the experience of tipped workers in the economy—both nationwide and in the South. Across the country, tipped workers are more likely to be people of color, women, women of color, or single parents, and are disproportionately born outside […]
A new and alarming report on racism has been published in France. On Wednesday, February 15, the Representative Council of France’s Black Associations (CRAN) will present to the Assemblée Nationale its second evaluation of the perception and experience of discrimination against Black people in France. This survey by the global market research company Ipsos was […]
Americans who heard former President Donald Trump claim that Vice President Kamala Harris previously identified as “not Black” in a July 2024 interview may wonder why he continuously emphasized former President Barack Obama’s blackness during his first presidential campaign. As a scholar focused on race and gender issues, I recognize that these seemingly inconsistent definitions […]
The unarmed African-American’s death on 25 May was captured on video while a police officer knelt on his neck for over eight minutes in Minneapolis, sparking worldwide protest. During the debate on racism, alleged police brutality and violence against protesters that preceded the resolution’s adoption, no less than120 speakers took the floor. Many expressed sympathy […]
Lauren Boebert under fire for “racist” comment about Black lawmaker
Black Hot Fire Network
March 11, 2025
A Democratic congresswoman from Pennsylvania is pushing to censure Colorado U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, alleging Boebert made “racist and derogatory” comments about a Black colleague on television. Boebert appeared Friday night on Real America’s Voice News, a conservative cable outlet, to comment on Texas Rep. Al Green shaking his “pimp cane” at President Donald Trump […]