Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

Dancing doctor who made rap videos during surgery faces nearly 100 complaints from women Nearly 100 women say they have suffered complications after a US dermatologist arranged to have herself filmed singing and dancing during their  surgery , according to an attorney. Dr Windell Boutte posted videos to YouTube of herself dancing and singing along to music mid-operation, occasionally with assistants joining in with the dancing. The videos sometimes showed the bare skin of unconscious patients lying on the operating table while Dr Boutte danced around them.

Citing racial disparities, Minneapolis police will stop low-level marijuana stings Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo, left, said Thursday that "we will discontinue specific, low-level marijuana enforcement" in the wake of sting operations that resulted in disproportionate arrests of black people.  Police in Minneapolis will no longer conduct stings for low-level marijuana offenses after a report showed that nearly everyone arrested during the enforcement actions this year was black. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey ordered police to stop the stings after the Hennepin County public defender's office reported in a court motion that of the 47 people arrested during them this year, 46 were black. "We will discontinue specific, low-level marijuana enforcement, and I agree with the mayor's decision," said Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo. Frey has also told the department to stop undercover operations aimed specifically at marijuana

Tech Companies Are Still Struggling to Hire Black Workers   “I’m not about diplomacy,’’ said Maxine Waters, threatening regulation. “I’m not urging, I’m not encouraging. I’m about to hit some people across the head with a hammer. I know how to do this and I know how to do it well.’’

What it feels like to be black in white spaces A lmost every black person in America has experienced the sting of disrespect on the basis of being black. A large but undetermined number of black people feel acutely disrespected in their everyday lives, discrimination they see as both subtle and explicit. Black folk know everyday racism – that becomes powerfully underscored by highly publicized racial incidents like the incident at Starbucks, the recent spate of police killings of black men, or the calling of police on a black female student while napping in a common area of a Yale dormitory. In the face of these realities, black people everywhere take note and manage themselves in a largely white-dominated society, learning and sharing the peculiar rules of a white-dominated society in which expressions of white racism are becoming increasingly explicit. While American society purports to be open and egalitarian, or “equal opportunity”, such everyday outcomes leave black peo

THE LONG, DEFIANT HISTORY OF ACTIVISM AMONG BLACK ATHLETES Paul Robeson listens to a speech during the Peace Partisans World Congress in Moscow on April 20th, 1949. Robeson lost his passport in 1950. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images) "It was spectacular," the Cleveland Cavaliers' LeBron James  said  to a reporter in 2014. "I loved it. I'm looking for one." What could the hoops legend and multimillionaire possibly have wanted that he didn't already own? Simple: a black T-shirt. Specifically, a black T-shirt with the phrase "I can't breathe" printed across the front. James had earlier seen Derrick Rose, then of the Chicago Bulls, wearing that shirt. In recent years, its message has become a rallying cry against police violence: In July of 2014, Eric Garner, an unarmed black man, died on Staten Island, New York, after police officers wrestled him into a deadly chokehold. According to a cell phone video, Garner's last words, which he

How A Black Detective Infiltrated The KKK In 1978, Ron Stallworth was working as a detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department when he came across a classified ad to find out more about the Ku Klux Klan — and answered it. Two weeks later, he got a call on the police department's undercover operations line. It was the local KKK organizer. He asked why Stallworth wanted to join the Klan. "I said I wanted to join because I was a pure, Aryan, white man who was tired of the abuse of the white race by blacks and other minorities," Stallworth recalls. But Stallworth — a highly decorated law enforcement veteran — is actually black. In his new memoir,  Black Klansman , he tells the story of how he hoodwinked the Ku Klux Klan into thinking he was one of them. (As you might imagine, this conversation includes some racist language.)

Rockies' first-round pick regrets 2012 tweet calling for Obama assassination University of Mississippi pitcher Ryan Rolison addressed the issue of his controversial tweet from 2012 when he was introduced to the media as the Colorado Rockies' first-round draft pick. Rockies' first-round pick regrets 2012 tweet calling for Obama assassination STEVE GARDNER  |  USA TODAY   |  16 hours ago Was it a character flaw or just high school immaturity? Either way, University of Mississippi pitcher Ryan Rolison addressed the issue of his controversial tweet from 2012 when he was introduced to the media as the Colorado Rockies' first-round draft pick. The night Barack Obama won re-election as president, Rolison sent out a 13-word message -- one that has since been deleted: "Well we have one hope left ...if someone shoots him during his speech" He was 15 at the time. "It was a stupid tweet," Rolison, now 20, said on Tuesday's conferenc