There’s been no denouncing of Kristen Clarke by the likes of MSNBC, woke actor Robert DeNiro or leading anti-racism professor Ibram Kendi. Nor have Democrat politicians or leftists rushed to the defense of Clarke, whom President-elect Biden has announced will head the civil rights division of the Department of Justice. …
Read More »Shooting of Capitol rioter saved black lawmakers from LYNCHING, claims Congressman who feared overpopulation may capsize Guam
“I have no doubt that some of us who look like me would have been hanging from the railings of the third floor onto the House floor, swinging like fruit, strange fruit,” Johnson (D-Georgia), who is black, told the Rev. Al Sharpton on Saturday in an MSNBC interview. US Air …
Read More »A creeping black vs. black schism is dividing America as some descendants of slaves demand a special status over immigrants
‘Judas and the Black Messiah’, the biopic of assassinated Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton, is the type of movie you’d expect to spark controversy. But most wouldn’t expect it to be in the form of criticism that a black man was cast in the lead role. The issue for some …
Read More »Forget the racial politics, Pixar’s first black-led movie, ‘Soul’, isn’t about being black – it’s about being human
‘Soul’, the new film from esteemed animation studio Pixar that premiered on the streaming service Disney+ on Christmas Day, has attracted a lot of attention for featuring the first black protagonist in the company’s history. The film tells the story of Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx), a good-hearted jazz musician (who …
Read More »Oscar-worthy Chadwick Boseman saves his best for last in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’, but it’s a muddled misfire of a movie
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, which stars Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman, and is based upon the August Wilson stage play of the same name, premiered this past Friday on Netflix with much fanfare. The buzz surrounding the film, which tells the story of legendary blues singer Ma Rainey and her …
Read More »Not black enough? British actress Naomi Ackie scores Whitney Houston role, sparking woke American meltdown over her nationality
Ackie, who starred in Hollywood blockbuster ‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’, will play iconic singer Whitney Houston in an upcoming biopic, ‘I Wanna Dance with Somebody’. Director Stella Meghie said she spent months in an “exhaustive search” to find an actress who could “embody” the legendary performer. Meghie expressed …
Read More »‘Was Beethoven black?’ In any normal society, the answer would be no, but we no longer live in a normal society.
Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday passed on Thursday, and the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels celebrated the iconic composer’s in truly modern fashion: by exhibiting artist Terry Adkins’ 2004 work ‘Synapse’ – a video depicting Beethoven’s frumpy visage morphing into that of a young black man with dreadlocks. The …
Read More »‘He didn’t show that black lives mattered to him’: San Francisco may remove Lincoln’s name from school over his minority policies
“Lincoln, like the presidents before him and most after, did not show through policy or rhetoric that black lives ever mattered to them outside of human capital and as casualties of wealth building,” Jeremiah Jeffries, the first-grade teacher who chairs the school board’s renaming committee, told the San Francisco Chronicle. …
Read More »Nashville nurse killer identified as 21-yo black man, who once tried to shoot his own family when granny woke him for school
Kaufman, a 26-year-old ICU nurse, was gunned down on December 3 as she was driving to St. Thomas West Hospital to work an evening shift. On Friday, Nashville police reported that they had taken into custody a suspect in the murder, 21-year-old Devaunte L. Hill. He had “implicated himself” during …
Read More »‘Multiple’ people injured after vehicle ‘plows’ into Black Lives Matter protesters in New York
A NYPD spokesman confirmed that a vehicle “plowed” into the protesters at the corner of 39th Street and Third Avenue in Midtown Manhattan on Friday afternoon, shortly after 4 pm local time. The injuries did not appear to be life-threatening, police added. Dozens of officers cordoned off the area after …
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