Новости за 16.05.2016

A Florida candidate for U.S Senate is facing heavy criticism from his peers after video surfaced in which he referred to President Barack Obama as an "animal," the Tampa Bay Times reports. 

Attention, all the young, black and fabulous women in the New York City area: The Root is bringing it home with an event you won’t want to miss. Young, Fabulous and Female: New York City will be held Wednesday, May 25, and include a powerhouse panel featuring actress MaameYaa Boafo; Tricia Clarke-Stone, co-founder and CEO of Narrative; Lauren Maillian, an entrepreneur currently starring in Oxygen’s docuseries Quit Your Day Job; Caralene Robinson, senior vice president of VH1’s creative group and consumer marketing; and Jovian Zayne... Читать дальше...

Authorities have arrested the last of three suspects believed to be involved in the fatal shooting of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee in Chicago, the Chicago Tribune reports. 

Jordan Brown, the openly gay Texas pastor who sued Whole Foods, claiming that an employee had written a homophobic slur on a cake he bought in April, has apologized to the chain and withdrawn his lawsuit, KVUE reports. 

Michelle Obama has been plagued by racist depictions since before her husband won the White House and throughout his presidency. There was the infamous cover of the New Yorker picturing the first lady as an Afro-haired, machine gun-toting militant in combat boots giving her husband a fist bump, also known as a “terrorist fist jab.” Fuera de Serie, a Spanish magazine, superimposed an image of Michelle Obama onto a popular 1800 French painting of an enslaved woman with her right breast exposed.... Читать дальше...

A Pennsylvania man is accused of killing his girlfriend and setting a motel on fire by tossing gasoline on the victim, who was smoking, WPVI reports. 

If you’ve already seen Captain America: Civil War and have even a passing familiarity with King T’Challa of Wakanda, aka the Black Panther, you know that the director and writers didn’t s--t the bed with the character’s introduction to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

A Russian wildlife park has taken in a black goat that was named "Obama," dubbing its new addition a "rare, exotic animal," NBC News reports. 

A California family has been given a one-week extension by a judge to keep their son, 2-year-old Israel Stinson, on life support. Israel was declared brain-dead after an asthma attack left him without oxygen for 40 minutes April 1, CBS News reports.

The two pitbull mixes were supposed to be in the basement but somehow, they escaped and began attacking 3-year-old Janaya Everett.

Nayla Kidd, the 19-year-old Columbia University sophomore has been missing since leaving a May 5 dorm party is now believed to have taken her Facebook page down and changed her cellphone and bank account numbers before she disappeared, police sources told the New York Daily News.

The detective-mystery genre is dominated by male heroes—white male heroes, to be precise. There is Lee Child’s Jack Reacher. Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe. Ian Fleming’s James Bond. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. Elmore Leonard and Dashiell Hammett’s leading men. Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot. And many, many more. The few black faces we have in this realm are also male: Walter Mosley’s classic Easy Rawlins novels and, more recently, Attica Locke’s Jay Porter books are still in line with that classic male archetype. Читать дальше...

The moment Charles Hunt arrived in Rome, he planned to drop his luggage at his Airbnb and go on to explore the ancient city. Except, after a series of six email exchanges with the host to finalize accommodations and pay for his stay, the host suddenly said the room was no longer available. Out of time and almost out of cellphone-battery life, he quickly came across a small hotel and stayed there for the remainder of his trip.