racial profiling

Footage from the shooting death of a Black Chicago teen at the hands of a murderous police officer has now been released to the public and it’s as horrifying as expected. According to multiple news reports, Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was pursuing 17-year-old LaQuan McDonald on October 20, 2014 in response to a call […]

Milwaukee Bucks player John Henson says he was discriminated against after he was denied service at a high-end jewelry store.

Footage of James Blake being aggressively thrown to the ground by a New York police officer has surfaced on the web. The video was released by…

A McKinney, Texas police officer has been suspended from his regular duties after footage of him handcuffing and pulling out a weapon on a group…

Being a celebrity’s son does not shield you from social injustices – just ask Taraji P. Henson‘s son. In an interview with Uptown Magazine, the actress shared how her son was recently racially profiled while at enrolled at the University of Southern California. Because of it, she decided to enroll her 20-year-old son, Marcel, at […]

Only 1.5 percent of Stop-and-Frisk arrests, the discriminatory policy that racially profiles Black and Brown men on the streets of New York City, has resulted…

Actor Rob Brown is seeking justice for allegedly being racially profiled in Macy’s. He recently filed a lawsuit against the department store giant. Although the “Treme” star is just filing the lawsuit, the incident that caused the lawsuit happened in June.   According to Brown, he went shopping in Macy’s flagship store in New York […]

  As far as rap music is concerned, Jay Z is arguably one of the top five artists to ever do it. I would not have been able to predict this back when I heard him for the first time — on his mentor Jaz-O’s single “Hawaiian Sophie” — with his moderately mediocre rapid-fire staccato […]

  As many are aware, there have been allegations thrown at Barney’s the high end department store in New York City regarding Trayon Christian, 19, who filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court claiming he was racially targeted by workers at the Barneys’ flagship store on Madison Avenue. Huffington Post reports that according to the lawsuit, police […]

  According to the New York Daily News, Robert Brown, star of the HBO show “Treme,” says he was shopping at Macy’s historic flagship store on June 18, 2013 when undercover detectives/police officers suddenly swarmed him. Brown claims he was then “paraded” through the Herald Square Macy’s in handcuffs and detained for an hour because an […]

Rapper Jim Jones is known for governing his life by his own set of rules. Last week, Jones was reminded of the laws and their inflexibility when he was removed from his car and searched at Newark Liberty International Airport. Jim Jones recently claimed he was stopped at the airport for driving while black. Mr. […]