Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

Possible key to black boys' academic success: Hire black men as elementary school teachers Near the end of his freshman year at the  University of Illinois at Chicago , Ja’Waun Williams heard that a dean there had been a member of the fraternity Williams was pledging. After bonding over their shared affection for Alpha Phi Alpha, Dean Alfred Tatum persuaded Williams to shift his academic focus. Instead of preparing to teach high school math, Tatum suggested, why not major in urban elementary education?

African-American man kicked out of Bay Area store after trying on hats with his family   Anthony O'Neill took the cell video at Quest Casuals in Sausalito on Sunday. The video is 8 minutes long and has more than 90,000 views on Facebook. At the beginning of the video, the store owner, Hooshang Seda, can be seen and heard saying, "I am not after trouble Sir. I am asking you to leave because I refuse to do business with you."

Florida cops beat up and arrest black man just for telling them to do their jobs: lawsuit : A Florida man is suing the Miami-Dade Police Department after its officers allegedly beat him up and arrested him for yelling “do your f*cking job.” The Miami New-Times reported that Jose Farquaharson was standing on a street corner when a car sped past him.  Two police officers were standing across the road, and the angered 42-year-old yelled “do your f*cking job and stop the cars from speeding!” Luis Arcia, one of the officers Farquaharson yelled at, reportedly …

WATCH: Massive brawl breaks out between Trump supporters and protesters at defaced Walk of Fame star : A massive brawl broke out Thursday night between supporters and opponents of President Donald Trump who had gathered around the Trump Hollywood Walk of Fame star that had been defaced by a vandal earlier in the week. A video of the brawl, which was obtained by TMZ, shows Trump fans and anti-Trump protesters squaring off around the defaced star, with the protesters chanting “F*ck Donald Trump!” Eventually, chaos breaks out and both Trump supporters and …

Handgun-waving white man threatens to lynch blacks in Pennsylvania road-rage incident : Police have charged a white Pennsylvania man with a felony hate crime after he allegedly used a racial slur while waving a handgun out the window of his car — while threatening a lynching — during a road rage incident. Adam Kraus, 32, of Fayetteville, PA was charged with felony ethnic intimidation and misdemeanor simple assault and misdemeanor terroristic threats for the incident, The Sentinel reports. The victims reported the incident to police, including the …

‘My heart, it’s never been fuller’: All black team wins D.C. Little League title “It’s honestly overwhelming,” said Keith Barnes, the president of the Mamie Johnson Little League. “My heart,” said Charlie Sperduto, who directs the baseball and softball programs at the Nationals Youth Baseball Academy, “it’s never been fuller than it was last night.” The transactional information isn’t mind-blowing: Mamie Johnson beat Capitol Hill to win the District’s Little League championship. The tournament has been held annually for 31 years. Someone has to win it. Next stop for the 12 boys from Mamie Johnson: Bristol, Conn., for regionals, with the Little League World Series in sight beyond that.

Roseanne Barr makes TV apology for controversial tweet Speaking to Fox News on Thursday, she said her tweet comparing ex-Obama aide Valerie Jarrett - an African-American - to an ape had "cost her everything". Barr told host Sean Hannity her tweet was meant to address US-Iran nuclear policy and not Jarrett's ethnicity. Addressing Jarrett directly, the comic said she "never meant" to cause hurt. "I'm sorry you feel harmed," she added. Barr's tweet sparked outrage on social media in May and led ABC to cancel the reboot of her self-titled show about a working-class American family.