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MAYOR CONDEMNS ALABAMA PASTOR'S ANTI-GENTRIFICATION SIGN 'BLACK FOLKS STAY OUT OF WHITE CHURCHES' Church leaders and the mayor denounced the racial “division” caused by a Birmingham, Alabama, pastor who put up a provocative sign reading “Black folks need to stay out of white churches" to fight gentrification. New Era Baptist Church  Pastor  Michael R. Jordan told WBRC-TV  he posted the sign in protest of Church of the Highlands—Alabama’s largest non-denominational, multicultural church—opening up a new branch for its more than 40,000 weekly worshippers nearby in Birmingham. On the reverse side of the sign outside the overwhelmingly African-American Cotton Avenue church, Jordan’s sign reads “White folks refused to be our neighbors.”

White supremacist Senate candidate praises anti-Semitic robocalls targeting Diane Feinstein Patrick Little may be considered a long-shot candidate to replace California Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D). But that’s not stopping supporters from purchasing radio ads full of anti-Semitic slurs aimed at Feinstein — and calling on listeners to support Little, a neo-Nazi and avowed anti-Semite. The 90-second robocalls,  first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle , peppered California airwaves this week. The robocall encouraged listeners to back Little, who the  robocall says  has “vowed to end Jewish control over America.” On Gab, the account for The Road to Power — which sponsored the robocalls —  said over 350,000 of the robocalls had gone out to Californians.

Mother of Tamir Rice to Open Afrocentric Student Center in Honor of Son In November of 2014, Samaria Rice endured a parent's worst nightmare when her 12-year-old son was shot and killed by Cleveland police officers outside Cudell Recreation Center. The police had been called about an "armed person," which turned out to be a child playing with a toy gun. The murder of  Tamir Rice  sparked community  and  national  outrage, but the two offers involved in the shooting were never criminally charged. However, Tamir's mother, Samaria Rice is honoring the memory of her son by starting a new Afrocentric center in his name as part of the  Tamir Rice Foundation .  Rice has purchased the old Slavic News building off St. Clair in the hopes of turning it into an after-school center for children. The center's goal, according to the fundraising page , is to have a "world in which all children feel safe, nurtured and valued — especially in their darkest ti...

Why Robert Kraft's Deposition Could Play a Key Role in Colin Kaepernick's Collusion Case Robert Kraft's relationships with President Donald Trump and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell are two big reasons why the Patriots owner's deposition could end up playing a big role in Colin Kaepernick's collusion lawsuit.

Meghan Markle Isn't the Only Stylish Royal of Black Descent On Saturday, Meghan will officially join a league of extraordinary black beauties who also hold royal titles. She won't officially be crowned princess, but this might be the one time in a relationship when a specific title isn't super important. To get ready for the big day, it's only proper that we highlight the other black women who are actual royalty. Prepare for these queens, princesses, and the like in 3...2...1...

Remembering Lansing's Malcolm X on his 93rd birthday Before he was Malcolm X, he was a Lansing kid named Malcolm Little. He later grew to be one of the most influential civil rights leaders in American history. 

Black Culture Is a Central Part of Royal Wedding Royal watchers wondered how the wedding of the Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, to Harry, the Duke of Sussex, would nod to black identity, and the resounding answer came in the ceremony on Saturday. The duchess is the daughter of an African-American mother and a white father, and her marriage ceremony threaded black culture throughout. Central to the day  was a stirring address by The Most Rev. Michael Bruce Curry , the presiding bishop of the American Episcopal Church and its first African-American leader. He quoted the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and touched on themes of universal love. It was delivered in a cadence that is steeped in an African-American religious oratorical tradition that broader America first heard in Dr. King speechesKing’s speeches.

Michelle Obama says women need to stop babying their sons! Obama appeared on ABC News for a talk with poet Elizabeth Alexander during the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago. Their discussion about the power of our choice of words lead to a discussion about the role of men in this world. What Obama has to say is sobering – we can point at bad behaviors of men all we want, but, how did they get that way? Click on through to learn more about what the former First Lady had to say.

Why Did Police Run This Cyclist Off His Bike? In the video, the cyclist gets thrown from his bike, sails through the air, and hits the ground hard. Heins Rodriguez, a 26-year-old from Queens, New York, was riding his bike in the Corona neighborhood on August 13, 2015. Based on surveillance footage from the area, we know how the ride ended: A pair of police officers following Rodriguez in an unmarked car veered toward him, running him off the road and possibly striking him. Rodriguez crashed on the sidewalk, landing on his side.

White Man Guilty Of Fatally Shooting Black 16-Year-Old Boy Over A Lunch Box As He Ran For His Life An Alabama jury found a white man guilty of fatally shooting an unarmed Black teen who was away for his life. Jonathan Scott, 52, was convicted of manslaughter for the June 21, 2016 murder of 16-year-old Mustafa Bearfield. Scott said he began shooting at Bearfield after the teen allegedly stole a lunch box from his bread delivery truck outside a convenience store, reported  AL.com. In court, Scott told the jury he pulled out his gun and tried to scare Bearfield into dropping the lunch box by firing warning shots over his head. However, the last shot fired hit the back of Bearfield's head, killing him at the scene.  The jury was able to find Scott guilty after less than two hours of deliberations. Scott will be held in the Madison County Jail pending sentencing. He faces up to 20 years in prison. According to the jury, Scott acted "recklessly" by firin...

Self-proclaimed white supremacists arrested after driving black mom and son off the road in baseball bat attack A New York couple have been taken into custody for allegedly driving a black mother and her son off the road, calling them “n*ggers” and then attacking their car with baseball bats, reports the  Times-Union . Phillip O. Quandt Jr., 50, and Kristen P. Wright, 51, were each charged with criminal mischief, reckless endangerment and menacing over the incident that occurred on May 10. According to  WNYT , Natia Shim claims she and her 17-year-old son were on their way to fill out job applications when she claims a green truck with lights on top of it rammed her car up onto the the shoulder of the road. “All he [her son] kept saying was, ‘Mommy, they’re going to kill us, they’re going to kill us,’ and I’m just sitting there like, ‘Just go,’ and I’m ducking down in the seat,” Shim said, adding that the truck later cut them off before an off-ramp. According...

Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman draws a ham-fisted line from white supremacy’s past to its present Midway through Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman , mostly set in the 1970s, a white cop explains to the Colorado Springs Police Department’s only black cop that the way to push racist ideologies to the average American who doesn’t consider himself racist is to slip it in beneath other issues, like immigration and crime and affirmative action and tax reform.

Racist lawyer kicked out of his office space Racist lawyer Aaron Schlossberg will have to find new office space — and an attorney of his own. The 44-year-old was kicked out of his Madison Avenue work space Thursday after he was was captured in a hate-filled rant at Spanish-speaking restaurant workers  — and then a Congressman filed a formal complaint to the state court system’s disciplinary committee. Schlossberg had been using a business center in 275 Madison Ave. as an office address for his private law firm — but has been given the boot over the shocking video that went viral Wednesday. “We have terminated his services agreement with us,” Hayim Grant, the president of Corporate Suites, which operates the business center, told The Post Thursday, adding that he was “completely shocked” by the nearly minute-long clip.

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A white woman called the cops on a black real estate investor. Police defended him. Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen a wave of high-profile racial profiling incidents  — white people calling the police because black people or people of color look “suspicious.” But some officers aren’t happy to be called in these instances, as a new video shows. Michael Hayes, a black real estate investor in Memphis, was inspecting a house in need of repairs on May 5. A white woman who lived in the neighborhood demanded to know why he was outside. In a video  posted to YouTube , Hayes explained that he was an investor looking at the property and that the person who owned the home knew he would be there. He also showed the woman an investment contract signed by the owner, as well as a letter showing that he had written permission to enter the house. The woman, still suspicious of Hayes, called the police. When they arrived, Hayes began recording his interaction with the o...

Have Lost Untold Acres of Land Over the Last Century Matthew Allen, now in his 70s, grew up visiting this family land where his father and grandfather grew up. “When [my father] was coming up,” he recalls, “they used to…go down to the water to fish. They used to hunt. [They] used to farm the land, used to grow okra, corn, sweet potatoes. They took full advantage of the land.”

Dad walking child in DC park stopped by police after call This Spring has been surreal when it comes to Black people trying to live a normal life and racists trying to stop it by calling police. It cannot be denied that some White people in this country are using the police as a weapon to inflict racist emotional harm on innocent Blacks. The stories keep coming from all over the country about White people calling the police on Black people for no reason.  Black people can’t BBQ  in peace, wait at a Starbucks, drive the streets of America,  shop  and now apparently can’t walk their baby in a park in our nation’s capitol without the police being called. The latest incident occurred with Donald Sherman and his baby Caleb, who he was pushing in a stroller. He posted the following on Facebook:

Federal Lawsuit Filed Over Obama Center Planned Park Use As the Obama Presidential Center looks for new city approval this week a federal lawsuit is filed opposing the use of Jackson Park. The group filing the suit, Protect Our Parks, says the Obama Foundation is serving its needs and not the needs of the public. The Obama center plans to build a 12 story building and other structures between 59th 62nd streets along Stony Island Avenue. Streets like Marquette Drive will close. That will impact neighbors and the wildlife as major changes will take place at Jackson Park. Protect our Parks filed a federal lawsuit saying the Obama Foundation has committed "an institutional bait and switch." Friends of the Park, a separate group that fought and prevented building the Lucas Museum near Soldier Field is not a party to this lawsuit. Renderings Offer 1st Look at Obama Presidential Center Set in the heart of historic Jackson Park, on Chicago’s South Side, the Obama Pres...

At emotional hearing, LAPD officer gets 36 months in jail in assault caught on video Wearing dark sunglasses inside a downtown L.A. courtroom, Sandra Thomas approached the witness stand Thursday and spoke about the Los Angeles police officer she holds responsible for her daughter's death. "I have to ask God to help me learn how to forgive her," she said to a judge before the sentencing of LAPD Officer Mary O'Callaghan. Thomas' 35-year-old daughter was handcuffed and assaulted by O'Callaghan during an arrest in 2012. She died shortly after being placed in the back of a squad car, complaining she couldn't breathe. The encounter, which was captured on a dashboard camera, showed O'Callaghan striking Alesia Thomas — a mother of two — with an open hand and kicking her in the crotch. The officer then can be seen smoking a cigarette on the street, as Alesia Thomas fell unconscious. Sandra Thomas, who works as a medical assistant, asked why ...

Black sorority members angry after being questioned by trooper during highway cleanup Several black members of a local alumni sorority are upset after they said a state police trooper stopped them and asked for identification while they were cleaning up trash along Interstate 83 last week. The incident took place the morning of May 12, along Interstate 83 in Harrisburg, between the 13  th  and 19  th  street exits, but that's about all the two sides agree occurred.

MICHAEL B. JORDAN TO WHITE INTERVIEWER WHO DID WAKANDA SALUTE: ‘I AIN’T FROM WAKANDA’ So basically what Michael B. Jordan is sayin’ to this interviewer is: “I ain’t one of your lil’ friends”. Killmonger has spoken… No Ma’am, not here for this here “Wakanda salute”. Carry on.

Popular African-American hair products may contain toxic chemicals, research says Research indicates there  may be a link  between chemicals found in popular  hair products used by black women and girls  and hormone and asthma-related illnesses. A study,  conducted by researchers  at Silent Springs Institute in Newton, Massachusetts, and Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, Ohio, suggests the main ingredients  in things as common as shampoo and conditioner  may contain harmful chemicals linked to cancer and preterm birth. The study was  made available online in April  by the Environmental Research journal.

Director hiro murai this is america creative process HM:  “We worked on music videos together before  Atlanta , and the way we work on Atlanta  came from how we worked on music videos, so it was sort of a fluid, intuitive process… Donald took the creative charge on the initial conceit [of the video] because he knew what the song was going to be, and I came on when he was mixing down the final pieces of the song. But the creative process for the video was like we were playing hot potato with ideas — even while we were shooting it.”

Police: Woman found hanging from a tree near Walmart; No foul play suspected No foul play is suspected after a woman was found hanging from a tree near Walmart in College Park, Ga., southwest of Atlanta.

Death of Keeven Robinson in custody is ruled homicide by asphyxiation A young black man who died in the custody of four white Louisiana deputies had "significant traumatic injuries" to his neck consistent with asphyxiation, according to the coroner, who classified the case as a homicide. The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office put the four narcotics agents involved in the confrontation on desk duty and asked Louisiana State Police and the FBI civil rights task force to join his investigation of how drug suspect Keeven Robinson, 22, was killed Thursday.

Tomi Lahren's family tree reveals undocumented immigrants, Twitter rejoices   VIDEO Tomi Lahren often complains about illegal immigrants, but a researcher uncovered her family tree that revealed ironic results.