WNBA player Sue Bird suggested people don’t tune in to watch women’s basketball games like they do for the national soccer team because most basketball players are “cute and white and straight.”
"It's 70%-80% black women, a lot of gay women. We're tall; we're big. And I think there's just...
(Headline USA) The #MeToo movement hinted that it was putting its pro-female-empowerment agenda on the back-burner as it hopped on the racial-justice bandwagon.
When the hashtag went viral three years ago on Oct. 15, 2017, it sparked a global conversation about sexual harassment and assault that, in its wake, brought...
(Associated Press) Roberta Wright McCain, the mother of the late Sen. John McCain who used her feisty spirit to help woo voters during his 2008 presidential campaign, has died. She was 108.
A spokesperson for daughter-in-law Cindy McCain says Roberta McCain died Monday. A cause of death was not immediately released.
“It...
Dozens of black employees at Planned Parenthood reported encountering racism in the workplace, according to a recent investigation.
The Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance conducted an internal audit of the national organization, which was based on interviews with 64 current and 12 former black employees.
Almost every one said they were...
Thursday's announcement of the Nobel Literature Prize (to American poet Louise Glück) found this former English teacher sentimentally reflecting on past works of high-minded literary expression.
Like so many other fields, literature has lately become a victim of the pernicious PCism and partisan cancel-culture that threaten any empirical, truth-seeking explorations...
Yelp announced this week that it will allow customers to report “overtly racist actions” in their reviews and attach a warning to a business’s page based on those reviews.
If a business “gains public attention for reports of racist conduct, such as using racist language or symbols,” Yelp will place...
(Headline USA) “Sesame Street" has always pressed for inclusion. Now in the wake of the national reckoning on race, it's going further---teaching children to stand up against racism, and to report any violators to the nearest authority figure.
Sesame Workshop — the nonprofit, educational organization behind “Sesame Street” — will...
Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis has given his state’s NFL team, the Miami Dolphins, the green light to have a full capacity of 65,000 fans at Hard Rock Stadium, according to a spokesperson for DeSantis.
Talk show host Andy Slater announced this week that the Dolphins had been given clearance...
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said the league will pull back from its in-your-face support for Black Lives Matter next season, in what seems like an attempt to recover from collapsing ratings, BroBible reported.
"I would say, in terms of the messages you see on the court, on the jerseys, this...
A group of professors, academics and historians wrote the Pulitzer Prize Board asking it to revoke the commentary award given for the New York Times’s controversial 1619 Project given its many errors and “patently false assertions.”
The 21 signatories argued in the letter that the 1619 Project’s principal claim---that the...
(Headline USA) Roger Montoya, a Democratic candidate in an open New Mexico House race for the state legislature, has acknowledged his participation in two gay-oriented pornographic films in the 1980s as a college student.
The revelation about Montoya, 60, emerged as the longtime educator "for children of all ages" runs...
(Headline USA) Facebook said it will ban groups that openly support QAnon, the mostly right-wing theory that paints President Donald Trump as a secret warrior against a supposed child-trafficking ring run by celebrities and deep-state government officials.
The company said Tuesday that it will remove Facebook pages, groups and Instagram...