The Nation: There’s been a river of ink already spilled over Louisville guard Kevin Ware’s horrific leg injury during the Cardinals’ Elite Eight victory over the Duke Blue Devils. Most, with some notable exceptions, have tested the bounds of hokey sentimentality: the classic story of an injured player inspiring his shaken team to [...]

When ESPN released videos of former Rutgers men’s basketball coach Mike Rice abusing players during practices — kicking members of his team, firing basketballs from point blank range at them, screaming in their faces, and hurling verbal abuse at them, including misogynistic and homophobic slurs – it did not take long for Sean Hannity and [...]

From UltraViolet:  Did you hear the new single from Rick Ross? In it, the Reebok spokesman and rapper talks about drugging and raping a woman, saying “put molly all in her champagne, she ain’t even know it / I took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain’t even know it.”1

“Molly” is [...]

From Michael R at Racism Review: “United States history has taught us it is not new or unusual that blacks are viewed as second class citizens compared to whites; our contemporary realities has informed us that women are not on equal footing as men; and our society has still not come to grips [...]

By Susan Harjo via Change.org I live in Washington, DC, and while I’d love to root for my home football team, I just can’t do it. I’m Cheyenne and Muscogee and I think the name of the Washington NFL franchise is a racist slur. R*d*k*ns is the worst thing in the English language Native [...]