Tag: Racism

‘Frame by frame’: FBI reviewing photos and videos from Minneapolis protests in effort to arrest ‘violent instigators’

Zach Halaschak · June 11, 2020 7:29 pm

Beltway Confidential

Church loses leases after pastor ‘likes’ pro-Trump activist’s Instagram posts

Becket Adams · June 11, 2020 6:53 pm

Mark Levin: Disband the Democratic Party which ‘birthed the KKK’

Dominick Mastrangelo · June 11, 2020 2:26 pm

FILE - In this Dec. 19, 1939 file photo, a crowd walks past the Astor Theater during the Broadway premiere of "Gone With the Wind" in New York. (AP Photo, File)

Beltway Confidential

The making of Gone with the Wind is a testament to our messy, monumental racial progress

Tiana Lowe Doescher · June 11, 2020 2:04 am

President Donald Trump's top economist, Larry Kudlow, talks about the economy, trade, and U.S. efforts to work with China on containing the spread of the coronavirus infection, during a tv news interview at the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 7, 2020.

Larry Kudlow says he doesn’t believe there is systemic racism in US

Mica Soellner · June 10, 2020 10:23 pm

Beltway Confidential

The movement to reform police culture threatens to become a parody of itself

Becket Adams · June 10, 2020 9:47 pm

Pastor Joel Osteen gives an interview at his Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. Osteen and his congregation have set up their church as a shelter for evacuees from the flooding by Tropical Storm Harvey.

'This is not a political issue': Joel Osteen says Floyd death 'ignited something in me'

Zach Halaschak · June 10, 2020 9:24 pm

NASCAR said athletes have a right to "peacefully express one's opinions." The organization said, "Sports are a unifying influence in our society, bringing people of differing backgrounds and beliefs together. Our respect for the national anthem has always been a hallmark of our pre-race events." (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

NASCAR bans Confederate flag from all events

Anthony Leonardi · June 10, 2020 9:16 pm

Outgoing Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., right, talks with Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 20, 1986.

‘Where do you draw the line?’: Kayleigh McEnany asks if Biden should be canceled with Confederates for supporting segregationists

Anthony Leonardi · June 10, 2020 9:14 pm

Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo addresses the media where he discussed police reforms, Wednesday, June 10, 2020 in Minneapolis. The meeting follows the Memorial Day death of George Floyd in police custody after video shared online by a bystander showed former officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck during his arrest as he pleaded that he couldn't breathe.

‘I will not abandon this department’: Minneapolis police chief ends union negotiations and pushes reform

Zach Halaschak · June 10, 2020 8:17 pm

Gianna Floyd, the daughter of George Floyd, listens to a a news conference, Tuesday, June 2, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minn. The city has seen protests against police brutality sparked by the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on May 25.

‘Easing her journey’: University offers George Floyd’s 6-year-old daughter full scholarship

Zach Halaschak · June 10, 2020 6:29 pm

Immigrants take jobs citizens don’t want, majority of US adults and most Republicans say

Anna Giaritelli · June 10, 2020 4:39 pm