Why The 'Race Card' Is Played

African migrants in disbelief as Israeli law cuts their salaries TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — African migrants in Israel have been detained, threatened with deportation and faced hostility from lawmakers and residents. Since last year, they face another burden: a de facto 20 percent salary cut that has driven them further into poverty. Israel’s roughly 35,000 African migrants and the groups that support them say the recent law — in which Israel withholds the money from their paychecks every month and returns it only if they leave the country — is yet another attempt by an anti-migrant government to force them out. “I feel that they started the ‘deposit law’ to make our life miserable,” said Salamwit Willedo, a migrant from Eritrea who came to Israel in 2010. “We suffer for eight years here. If I had a country, why am I living here?”

New blackface video roils Sacramento high school where racist science project was featured A Sacramento high school that was recently embroiled in a controversy over a racist Science Fair project is reeling again after several students filmed themselves using the N-word while in blackface. According to CBS13 Sacramento, students believed to be attending McClatchy High School posted a video of themselves on social media wearing cosmetic mud masks and using t he highly-charged racial slur . In the first clip a teenage boy in blackface approachesa a bird cage, saying, “I don’t think this bird likes n***ers.” A second clip shows a teenage girl and the same boy flirting with the teen girl, giggling, “Hi, n***er.” While school officials are reasonably sure the videos were not shot on campus, they are concerned about the video coming on the heels of a student’s controversial science project in February that  questioned the IQ’s of African-American students .

Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, has died Aretha Franklin, whose gospel-rooted singing and bluesy yet expansive delivery earned her the title "the Queen of Soul," has died, a family statement said Thursday. She was 76. Franklin died at 9:50 a.m. at her home in Detroit, surrounded by family and friends, according to a statement on behalf of Franklin's family from her longtime publicist Gwendolyn Quinn. The "official cause of death was due to advanced pancreatic cancer of the neuroendocrine type, which was confirmed by Franklin's oncologist, Dr. Philip Phillips of Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit," the family statement said.

New study confirms Black boys feel less safe in white neighborhoods Researchers from the Department of Sociology at Ohio State University  conducted the study  by giving 506 Black boys between the ages of 11 to 17 smartphones to track their locations every 30 seconds for a week, according to  The New York Times . Participants were asked where they were, who they were with and how safe they felt around Columbus, Ohio, on a scale of 1 to 5. The mini survey took place from 2014 to 2016 with researchers receiving almost 7,400 surveys, the report says.

'Wake up!' Ana Navarro nukes Trump defender for saying attacks on black people's intelligence aren't racist : Republican strategist Ana Navarro on Wednesday unloaded on a Trump-defending Republican for trying to claim that the president’s attacks on black people’s intelligence aren’t racist. After Scott Jennings, the former special assistant to former President George W. Bush, argued that Trump was an “equal opportunity” offender of people, regardless of their skin color, Navarro jumped on him and said you can’t take the president’s regular attacks on black people’s intelligence as isolated events. “I frankly …

Sarah Sanders Apologizes For Her False Claim About African American Job Growth Under President Trump White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders  apologized  Tuesday for overstating African American employment numbers during a press conference. In response to a question about President Donald Trump’s alleged use of a racial slur, Sanders  told reporters  that employment among African Americans had grown three times as much in the first 18 months of the president’s term as it it had during President Barack Obama’s eight years in office, citing the White House Council of Economic Advisors (CEA). African American job growth during the Obama and Trump presidential terms differed little, former Treasury economist Ernie Tedeschi  told  The Washington Post :  “The real bottom line is that the pace of jobs growth hasn’t changed dramatically between the two presidents.” Employment did fall early in Obama’s first term, during the tail end of the Great Recession, but was growi

Prosecutor overrules sheriff, charges Florida man in 'stand your ground' case Michael Drejka, who fatally shot Markeis McGlockton after  McGlockton shoved him  in a Clearwater, Florida, convenience store parking lot, has been charged with manslaughter, officials said Monday. "Consistent with the decision-making process established under Florida law in this case, the State Attorney conducted his review and decided to charge Drejka with manslaughter," Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said in a news release. Previously, Gualtieri said the state's "stand your ground" laws prevented him from arresting Drejka last month. Pinellas and Pasco County State Attorney Bernie McCabe said he came to his decision to charge Drejka after a nine-day review that began August 1.