racism

Photos surfaced on Thursday of the racist slide shown at an internal Red Bull meeting that sparked the firing of three top executives earlier this week. The slide shows a distorted map from the viewpoint of an ignorant US consumer. “America!!! We’re #1!!!” is emblazoned across the United States, while an arrow pointing to the …

Nick Cannon will remain the host of Fox’s “The Masked Singer” after he came under fire for making anti-Semitic comments on his YouTube series, “Cannon’s Class.” “Nick has sincerely apologized, and quickly taken steps to educate himself and make amends,” Fox said in a statement Wednesday. “On that basis and given a belief that this …

British star Idris Elba advocated that racism in film and TV shows should be no different from sexism, with a rating system to warn viewers of racist viewpoints. “That’s why we have a rating system: We tell you that this particular content is rated U, PG, 15, 18,” said Elba to the Radio Times. “To …

British Vogue’s first black Editor-in-Chief Edward Enninful reported that he was racially profiled at his own office on Wednesday when he returned to work in London from the lockdown. “Today, I was racially profiled by a security guard whilst entering my workplace. As I entered, I was instructed to use the loading bay,” he posted …

Sean “Diddy” Combs offered Nick Cannon a job on his Revolt TV network — just hours after Cannon was fired by ViacomCBS Wednesday for making anti-Semitic remarks. “@NickCannon come home to @REVOLTTV truly BLACK OWNED!!!” the hip-hop mogul tweeted on Wednesday alongside a fist and heart emoji. “We got your back and love you and …

ViacomCBS has terminated its relationship with Nick Cannon following an episode of “Cannon’s Class” in which he made anti-Semitic remarks. “ViacomCBS condemns bigotry of any kind and we categorically denounce all forms of anti-Semitism. We have spoken with Nick Cannon about an episode of his podcast ‘Cannon’s Class’ on YouTube, which promoted hateful speech and …

No one outside conservative media can criticize Black Lives Matter without being fired or ostracized, so how can we expect the average American to chime in for a productive dialogue? “While we write and print millions of words about race in America, why is it still so hard to have a truly respectful, decent, and …

“We must address the root and byproduct of systemic racism in our country. The Black Lives Matter movement is an important civil rights cause that deserves all of our attention,” Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton said in a statement about the charges released Tuesday. “The mural completed last weekend was a peaceful and powerful way …

In the midst of today’s heightened racial unrest, the calls for black reparations have become more insistent. In their recent book, From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century, William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen write: “Racism and discrimination have perpetually crippled black economic opportunities.” The offenses cited are …

Every cultural revolution starts at year zero, whether explicitly or implicitly. The French Revolution recalibrated the calendar to begin anew, and the genocidal Pol Pot declared his own Cambodian revolutionary ascension as the beginning of time. Somewhere after May 25, 2020, the death of George Floyd, while in police custody, sparked demonstrations, protests, and riots. …