Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

More than 50 people shot in Chicago in 7 days An alarming surge of gun violence in Chicago has left more than 50 people shot in the past seven days. At least five people have died. CBS News correspondent Nikki Battiste reports.

Black Hockey Player Needs Police Escort Because NHL Fans Are So Racist : Givani Smith was suspended for giving the finger.

VIDEO: White woman calls police on Black women checking out of Airbnb because they didn’t wave at her A Black woman who vacationed with friends and stayed at a California Airbnb said they were swarmed by police and detained after a neighbor reported a group of Black people were taking luggage out of a house.

I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye Kanye West wants freedom—white freedom. I  could only have  seen it there, on the waxed hardwood floor of my elementary-school auditorium, because I was young then, barely 7 years old, and cable had not yet come to the city, and if it had, my father would not have believed in it. Yes, it had to have happened like this, like folk wisdom, because when I think of that era, I do not think of MTV, but of the futile attempt to stay awake and navigate the yawning whiteness of  Friday Night Videos , and I remember that there were no VCRs among us then, and so it would have had to have been there that I saw it, in the auditorium that adjoined the cafeteria, where after the daily serving of tater tots and chocolate milk, a curtain divider was pulled back and all the kids stormed the stage. And I would have been there among them, awkwardly uprocking, or worming in place, or stiffly snaking, or back-spinning like a broken rotor, and I would have looked up and se

Michelle Obama jokes that Barack Obama becoming president 'didn’t end racism' First lady Michelle Obama joked on Saturday that her husband becoming president “didn’t end racism.” She made the comment during the 2018  United State of Women Summit  where she dismissed calls for her to run for office.