Tag: Race Matters

‘Whore’: Donald Trump Jr. Posts Misogynistic Meme Attacking Fani Willis

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Brandon Bell / Getty Can we all just take a second and marvel at the sheer degree to which white men in America lack self-awareness? Listen: Everyone is guilty of throwing stones while living in glass houses from time to time, but the way white men—conservative white men especially—are able to […]

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RFK Jr. Whitesplains How ‘Education’ Will Make Us Immune To Racism ‘Like The Avengers’

NewsOne Featured Video Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. hosts a fireside chat with rapper and producer Eric B. at The Gentleman’s Factory on February 18, 2024, in New York City. | Source: John Nacion / Getty A couple of videos have recently started floating around the interwebs that show Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaking to a […]

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Donald Trump Jr. Claims ‘African American Men’ Regularly Come Up To Him And Say He’s Their ‘Hero’

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Tasos Katopodis / Getty At some point, Black people are going to get good and tired of white conservatives making us their flavor of the week topic every election season. Many of us are already there. Many of us are already rolling our eyes into the back of our heads every […]

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Trump Co-Defendant Trevian Kutti Calls Black Women Who Don’t Like R. Kelly Anymore ‘A Detriment To Our Culture’

NewsOne Featured Video In this handout provided by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, publicist Trevian Kutti poses for her booking photo at the Fulton County Jail on August 25, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. | Source: Handout / Getty A Black woman who is accused of trying to conjure up fake votes for Donald Trump and […]

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Clarence Thomas Hires ‘Karen’ Accused Of Texting ‘I Hate Black People’ As His New Law Clerk

NewsOne Featured Video A mobile billboard calling for Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from all cases related to January 6 due to his alleged conflicts of interest and corruption is seen in Washington, D.C., on February 2, 2024. | Source: Leigh Vogel / Getty Leave it to Supreme Court justice and unintentional Uncle Ruckus […]

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Donald Trump Stereotypes African Americans At Black Conservative Event With Largely White Audience

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Anadolu / Getty Last week, I wrote about MAGA Republicans banking on racist Black stereotypes to attract Black voters for Donald Trump. It started with Fox News hosts and other assorted white conservative Black friend solicitors speculating that Trump’s mugshot from his RICO indictment in Georgia would attract Black support because […]

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Republicans Are Counting On Racist Stereotypes To Attract Black Voters For Trump

NewsOne Featured Video Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump carries a pair of his new signature shoes before taking the stage at Sneaker Con at the Philadelphia Convention Center on February 17, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Last year, after Donald Trump’s mugshot went viral following his arrest […]

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Unpacking Killer Mike’s Latest Plan To ‘Strengthen The Black Community’

NewsOne Featured Video Killer Mike performs at the House of Blues Las Vegas inside Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on February 9, 2024, in Las Vegas, Nevada. | Source: Ethan Miller / Getty Just a few weeks ago, Michael Render aka Killer Mike was trending on social media because his latest album Michael earned him […]

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How Food Is A Runway To Build Power And Agency In Black Communities

NewsOne Featured Video A mother and daughter wait for assistance at Universe City, a decentralized food hub in the Brownsville neighborhood that is working to build food sovereignty while also promoting community healing practices on July 22, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. | Source: Spencer Platt / Getty When many people […]

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High School Students Accused Of Creating Online ‘Slave Auction’ In ‘Black People Are Low Class’ Snapchat Group

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Newsday LLC / Getty Here’s the thing: Racist white kids need to follow the news more. If they did, they would know that year after year after year, their fellow Kiddie Klan Kadets get themselves into trouble over their racist videos, racist promposals (with the same stupid joke about “picking cotton” […]

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White Folks Are Mad At Black-Owned Business Fair In North Las Vegas For Black History Month

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Education Images / Getty The city of North Las Vegas, Nevada, is celebrating Black History Month by hosting its first Black-owned business fair, and, unsurprisingly, a lot of white people are mad about it. “We are the largest minority-majority city in the state, and every year we want to do something […]

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NC School Doors ‘Decorated’ With ‘Colored’ And ‘White’ Entrances For Black History Month

NewsOne Featured Video Source: screenshot A North Carolina high school has been reprimanded by its school district for having a pair of doors inside the building “decorated” as being “colored” and “white” entrances last week in a Black History Month commemoration gone wrong. A photo of the doors at Charlotte West High School shows a […]

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Rachel Dolezal Fired During Black History Month Over OnlyFans

NewsOne Featured Video Activist Rachel Dolezal leaves the “Today Show” taping at the NBC Rockefeller Center Studios on March 27, 2017, in New York City. | Source: Ray Tamarra / Getty Rachel Dolezal—the ex-NAACP leader who, in 2015, became the poster child for cultural appropriation taken to an absurd extreme—has just lost her job at […]

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Florida School Sends Home Permission Slip For First-Graders To Hear ‘Book Written By An African American’

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Newsday LLC / Getty It appears that a school in Florida—the state where Black studies go to die, or at the very least, be thoroughly whitewashed for Caucasian consumption—has sent out permission slips requiring parents to give content for their children to listen to a reading of a book written by […]

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White Author Caught ‘Review Bombing’ Books By People Of Color Claims She’s Not Racist, Blames Autism

NewsOne Featured Video Last December, we reported the story of Cait Corrain, a debut author who threw away her bag like no one before by creating several fake Goodreads accounts, which she used to “review bomb” other new authors while up-voting her own book, Crown of Starlight—until she got caught. Not only did internet sleuths […]

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Sympathetic Kansas Cops Quickly Rule Out Racism In Jackie Robinson Statue Theft After Arresting White Man

NewsOne Featured Video Ricky Alderete. | Source: Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office Last month, we reported that a statue of baseball icon Jackie Robinson was cut off at the ankles and stolen from a park in Wichita, Kansas, only to be found dismantled and burned in a trashcan the same day. Of, course, the assumption was that […]

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Angry White Conservatives Just Can’t Accept The Black National Anthem Being Sung At The Super Bowl

NewsOne Featured Video Andra Day performs Lift Every Voice and Sing prior to Super Bowl LVIII between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers at Allegiant Stadium on February 11, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. | Source: Perry Knotts / Getty At this point, it’s just kind of amusing to watch white conservatives […]

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‘Supporting White Culture’: Florida Bill To Protect Confederate Monuments Advances

NewsOne Featured Video A Confederate monument featuring a statue of a Confederate soldier is seen at the Ocala Veterans Park in Ocala, Florida. | Source: Joe Raedle / Getty Republican legislators in Florida are hard at work reminding us that while a full and accurate telling of Black American history simply isn’t a priority, the […]

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Why Isn’t Anyone Calling Travis Kelce A ‘Thug’? Black People See Racial Double Standard To Raging At Coach

NewsOne Featured Video Travis Kelce #87 of the Kansas City Chiefs reacts at Head coach Andy Reid in the first half against the San Francisco 49ers during Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium on February 11, 2024, in Las Vegas, Nevada. | Source: Jamie Squire / Getty Just like every year, there were a number […]

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Donald Trump Jr. Makes ‘Joke’ Comparing Michelle Obama To NFL Linebacker During Super Bowl

NewsOne Featured Video Donald Trump Jr. sits in the courtroom with attorney Christopher Kise (L) for his civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Court on November 13, 2023, in New York City.  | Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty During the Super Bowl, Donald Trump Jr. took to social media to remind us […]

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‘NFL Africa’ Super Bowl Commercial Prompts Mixed Responses To League With No Black Majority Owners

NewsOne Featured Video A video board displays a logo for Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium on February 1, 2024, in Las Vegas, Nevada. | Source: Ethan Miller / Getty Famous in part for its commercials, the Super Bowl’s annual telecast didn’t fail to produce any number of conversation-generating ads that ran throughout the NFL’s […]

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GOP Elections Commissioner Says He’s ‘Done More For The Black Community’ Than Any Other White Republican

NewsOne Featured Video The State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin. | Source: KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI / Getty Here’s a question: Why is it that whenever white Republicans are accused of doing harm to Black people, they suddenly turn into Miss Millie from The Color Purple and start trotting out their largely fictional resumes regarding how they’ve “always […]

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Mediocre White Man Charlie Kirk Suggests He Loves Segregation, Dislikes MLK In Jason Whitlock Interview

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Handout / Getty Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk appears to have dedicated his entire platform to making blatant racism sound smart. It’s an easy job as long as the only people he has to convince are fellow racists who have the critical thinking capacity of a toddler’s wet diaper. For […]

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Ted Cruz Whines About Network’s ‘Diversity Development Fund’ To Help POC Filmmakers

NewsOne Featured Video Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) checks in for a flight at Cancun International Airport after a backlash over his Mexican family vacation as his home state of Texas endured a Winter storm on February 18, 2021, in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico. | Source: MEGA / Getty Conservative America will never admit that the […]

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Tyrese Says He Wishes He Was ‘Born Latino’ In Rant About Black Families

NewsOne Featured Video Actor and singer Tyrese attends the Recording Academy Honors presented by the Black Music Collective in Los Angeles on February 1, 2024. | Source: ROBYN BECK / Getty Singer and actor Tyrese Gibson has apparently decided to kick off Black History Month by being anti-Black under the guise of wanting Black people […]

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GOP Pollster’s Viral AI Fake Photos Of Republican ‘Black Voters’ Spotlight Election Misinformation Fears

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Fair use photos As Republicans’ desperate quest for Black friends continues, a GOP pollster is putting the message out that a “Republican victory in 2024” is dependent on the party’s to bring Black voters to MAGA Land. The pollster demonstrated that sentiment with photos that show Black men in what look […]

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Biden’s Response To Slain Soldiers In Jordan Contrasts With Trump’s Disrespect To Black, Brown Gold Star Families

NewsOne Featured Video From left: Sgt. William Jerome Rivers, Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders and Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett. | Source: Fair use photo President Joe Biden is scheduled to be in attendance Friday when the remains of the three American soldiers killed in a recent drone attack in Jordan will return to the U.S. Participating […]

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Republicans Want To Censure And ‘Deport’ Rep. Ilhan Omar For Saying Something She Never Said

NewsOne Featured Video Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) speaks during a news conference calling for a ceasefire in Gaza outside the U.S. Capitol building on November 13, 2023, in Washington, D.C. | Source: Anna Moneymaker / Getty Here’s the thing the GOP and white conservative America refuse to understand: They don’t know what they’re talking about […]

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‘Get Screened’: Lloyd Austin Addresses Prostate Cancer Risks For Black Men, Apologizes For ‘Secret’ Diagnosis

NewsOne Featured Video U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on February 1, 2024 in Arlington, Virginia. | Source: Alex Wong / Getty The U.S. Secretary of Defense urged Americans and particularly Black people to take steps to ensure their health while making his first public comments following […]

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Nikki Haley Tells ‘The Breakfast Club’ Obama Caused Racial Division And Dylan Roof Murders Weren’t Racist

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Dia Dipasupil / Getty Listen: Every prominent Republican in the country is invested in the demonstrable lie that America isn’t a racist country. They’re all pushing the self-serving narratives that we live in a post-racial America, that America’s greatness outweighs its racist past, and that Black people aren’t hindered by racism. […]

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Jason Whitlock Removes Interview Of ‘Antisemite’ Who Said ‘Jews Created A Plantation For Black People’

NewsOne Featured Video Source: Facebook.com/jasonwhitlock In today’s episode of Jason Whitlock Remarkably Finds New Ways To Be Embarrassing, America’s favorite Black “MAGA guy” recently invited a loud and apparently proud antisemite on his show, cosigned much of his anti-“Jew” diatribe and then he later deleted the episode and pretended he had no idea who that […]

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