Read: RIP summer camp I’ve always said that a day at camp is like two weeks in real life. Every emotion, friendship, and romantic feeling is amplified. On those campgrounds, an extraordinary, emotional magic takes place. Some of my most vivid and fondest memories are of my days at camp. …
Read More »‘Costco Karen’ Throws Tantrum When Asked To Follow Rule
It seems like a day doesn’t go by without another Karen losing her cool over something minute. This time, it was at a Costco, and once again, the tantrum was over wearing a face mask. Video of the incident shows the woman throwing hissy fit before petulantly dropping to the …
Read More »Sorry, White America, But All Holidays Matter
Photo: Shutterstock (Shutterstock) Today is July 4th, a.k.a Independence Day, a.k.a ID4, according to the seminal 1996 film. A day commemorating when some white dudes won their valiant fight to stop paying taxes to some other group of white dudes. For over 240 years, America has taken to grand fireworks …
Read More »Baltimore Restaurant Denies Accusations Of Racism
After the Atlas Restaurant Group in Baltimore was accused of discriminating against Marcia Grant, a Black mother, and her 9-year-old son, Dallas, on June 21, is now pushing back against claims that the incident was racist. Cell phone video captured by Grant shows her attempting to get a table with …
Read More »Descendants of Frederick Douglass Mark July 4th by Reciting His Famous Speech That Is as True as Ever
Screenshot: NPR (Youtube While Frederick Douglass would probably be disappointed (but not surprised) that the so-called land of the free hasn’t lived up to its promises of liberty all even centuries after he delivered his rousing speech, “What to the Slave Is The Fourth of July,” I imagine that he …
Read More »Pop Smoke’s Posthumous Album Released
Nearly five months after Pop Smoke’s untimely death, the Brooklyn rapper’s new album Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon was unveiled in the early hours of July 3. The 19-track project features special appearances from Quavo, 50 Cent, DaBaby, Future, Lil Baby, Swae Lee, Tyga, Karol G, Lil …
Read More »Trump Predictably Fuels Racial Tensions at Mount Rushmore Rally, Says 'Growing Danger' Threatens Statues and America
Photo: Saul Loeb (Getty Images) “I am pleased to report that yesterday, federal agents arrested the suspected ringleader of the attack on the statue of the great Andrew Jackson in Washington, D.C.” This is how the President started his rally at Mount Rushmore on Friday, in what was a clear …
Read More »Another Black Man Found Hanging In A Tree
Another Black male was discovered hanging from a tree in a park in Morristown, NJ, and his death has been ruled a suicide, raising questions in the community. Hangings—long a symbol of racial terror against Blacks by whites—have been rising in cities across the nation amid protests over police-related killings …
Read More »Aurora Police Officers Fired For Selfies Mocking Elijah McClain's Death
Screenshot: @CBSNews (Twitter Four Aurora Police Department officers are now out of a job following an investigation into photos they took of themselves at the site where 23-year-old Elijah McClain was put in a chokehold by police before dying last summer. The photos show Kyle Dittrich, Jared Jones, and Erica …
Read More »Woman Yells ‘I Hate Black People’ At Fort Bragg Soldier
A North Carolina woman has been evicted from her Fayetteville apartment after she was caught on video yelling racial slurs at a Fort Bragg soldier. Diamonte Ugbesia was visiting a friend at Kings Cross Apartments on June 26, when he heard a woman yelling racial slurs from a neighboring building …
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