A white woman has been banned from a Virginia restaurant after she harassed Spanish-speaking customers and their family visiting from Guatemala, telling them that they needed to speak English and demanding to see their passports. More
Airline Ryanair is facing backlash online for the way it handled a racist passenger lobbing insults at the Black woman sitting next to him. After the man called the elderly woman an “ugly Black bastard,” he was allowed to stay in his seat on the flight, and she was moved to another seat on the […] More
Much of the world has come around to the notion that women and men deserve to be treated equally. More
As you may know, Saudi Arabia has now copped to the killing of Washington Post journalist and frequent regime critic Jamal Khashoggi. Their official story (after trying to cover up the killing) is that Khashoggi was killed during a “fistfight,” which seems… not true. After all, why would Khashoggi try to bare-knuckle box armed Saudi […] More
Memes are saving the day. A high school teacher based in Franklin Park, Illinois, is using the quippy images to grade her student’s homework, and she is seeing real results. More
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his wife, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, were eating at a popular Cuban restaurant in Louisville, Ky. on Friday night when a protester confronted them, telling McConnell to “leave the entire country alone.” More
Long before the days of online free play that allow us to play video games against complete strangers around the world, before the days of social media, and before the days of cell phones and texting–we had to find things to keep us busy, occupied, and entertained. Lucky for some of us, we had “The […] More
Calling all Potter-heads, you’re going to go wild over the latest viral video to sweep social media. A video from the Walden Grove High School’s dance team has made the rounds on social media, featuring the complete Harry Potter storyline from start to finish. More
Though a pleasantly staggering number of (white) people have had their lives destroyed over racist behavior caught on tape, they just! can’t! stop! It’s almost as though their racist ideologies are so deeply ingrained, they don’t expect any consequences for their gross behaviors! The latest viral video sees D’Arreion Nuriyah Toles being quite literally blockaded by a […] More
A few weeks ago, online radio personality and Donald Trump’s unofficial Twitter mascot, Bill Mitchell, tweeted out perhaps one of the thirstiest tweets the platform has ever seen—quite a feat, as anyone even remotely familiar with Twitter knows. “Conservative women are the smartest, most beautiful and fascinating women on the planet,” he wrote, appealing to […] More
Most people assume that getting into an Uber ensures a safe ride home, no matter what the circumstances. However, the ride-hailing app is now coming under scrutiny for flimsy third-party background checks that make it easy for sexual predators to slip through the cracks, instead of the more stringent background checks that taxi drivers are subject to. One […] More
If you’re using cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), chances are, you’re in a pretty stressful situation—someone’s life is at risk due to a pulmonary or cardiac event. But being prepared by listening to this handy Spotify playlist could save someone’s life. If you were a camp counselor or a lifeguard, you probably know basic CPR: You place your hands on […] More
After Kanye West caused a scene at the White House and the Oval Office on Thursday, people were counting down the hours to see if Saturday Night Live would bring Alec Baldwin back to mock the entire scene. More
The sheriff in Union County, Arkansas, is denying that his office forced inmates to wear Nike T-shirts to taunt the brand and former NFL player Colin Kaepernick, CBS News reports. Shaun King, a civil rights activist and prominent Twitter personality, shared a post on Wednesday with 18 photos of inmates wearing “Nike Athletics” shirts. King said they were forced to […] More
Officials at a middle school in Virginia have been accused of keeping a transgender student separate and vulnerable during an active shooter drill. The incident allegedly took place at Stafford County Middle School, according to Equality Stafford, an LGBTQ rights group in the area. In a Facebook post last week, the group described the drill, […] More
