“Our league definitely got this wrong,” wrote LeBron James today just hours after NBA Commissioner Adam Silver went before the media to try and contain the fallout over what many consider too-mild sanctions on Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver for his reported sexist, racist and abusive behavior … Read entire story.
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Around the world, the legal profession has historically been the domain of white, privileged males. Some conservative nations, such as Saudi Arabia, didn’t even allow women to practice law until recently. And in 2015, the Washington Post declared law to be the least diverse profession in the U.S., as a … Read entire story.
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Source: Bennett Raglin / Getty It looks like Ari Lennox got a taste of racism from across the pond. The R&B songstress took to Twitter to reveal she was arrested in Amsterdam because she was racially profiled. I’m being arrested in Amsterdam for reacting to a woman racially profiling me … Read entire story.
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Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden has apologized for using a racist trope in an email about NFL players union chief DeMaurice Smith. The email was sent in 2011, when Gruden was working for ESPN. As players and owners were jockeying over a collective bargaining agreement, Gruden had an email … Read entire story.
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Source: Diane Macdonald / Getty We don’t know what is going on with 2018, but it seems that this is the year where Black people just living their lives seems to prompt folks to call the police called on us. Case in point: A Cleveland bank called the police on a … Read entire story.
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