It’s the third time in about a month that France’s justice minister, Christiane Taubira, has been publicly ridiculed with racist gibes, causing backlash for the lack of respect afforded the foremost black politician. The far-right weekly magazine Minute published a cover declaring, “Crafty as a monkey, Taubira gets her banana back,” the Agence France-Presse reports. …

If the Congressional Black Caucus does indeed have a policy that prevents nonblacks from becoming voting members of the organization, it is acting in a racist fashion, according to Dr. Ben Carson. The former neurosurgeon made his comments in an interview uploaded to YouTube, also adding, “If members of the Congressional Black Caucus would object…

Reginald Wells was chatting in the hallway of his Texas middle school last Friday, when he made a wisecrack about a teacher’s favorite football team. That’s when all hell broke loose. According to 12 News, the 12-year-old 7th grader was blindsided by the teacher, to the point where he lost consciousness. “All of a sudden…

And once again someone has botched Kerry Washington’s appearance on a magazine cover by lightening her skin a wee bit too much (or a lot). In the December/January issue of Lucky magazine we see an overedited, nearly unrecognizable Washington, with lighter, frosty-looking skin and narrower, thinner features.  Twitter didn’t take long to jump on the…

As it turns out, not everyone is excited about Octavia Spencer’s new gig as Jessica Fletcher in NBC’s remake of Murder, She Wrote.  Revered actress Angela Lansbury, who was the original Jessica Fletcher, thinks “it’s a mistake” to refer to the new series by the old name. “I think it’s a mistake to call it…

Dave Wilson, the white candidate who implied he was black and won a seat on the Houston Community College Board of Trustees, denied accusations that he deceived voters.  “Since this was a heavily African-American district and my opponent is African-American, I wanted to keep race out of it,” Wilson told ABC News. Wilson won the…

The University of California, Los Angeles, has a diversity problem, and some students aren’t going to let it rest without speaking up. Sy Stokes, a third-year student at UCLA, posted a video to YouTube last week highlighting the lack of diversity on campus. Stokes and a few other black men at the campus showed signs…

In 1944 a 95-pound 14-year-old boy was strapped to an electric chair in South Carolina for murdering two little girls, ages 7 and 11. He is the youngest person ever to be executed in the United States in the last 100 years, The Telegraph reports. George Stinney, an African American, was accused of killing two…

Black Americans are twice as likely to develop heart disease as white Americans, and a gene may yield a clue as to why, a new study has found. According to the New Scientist, the fragments in the blood, or platelets, form blood clots—components of heart disease and heart attack—more easily in African Americans. “Unexpectedly, we…