“And no, I do not yield one second to you! Not one second!”

Heated exchange between Rep. Mike Kelly and Rep. Maxine Waters on the US House floor.

Always breaks my heart reading about things like this. We must remember her name

Watch: Iman just shared the frightening way the modeling industry has actually slid backwards for women of color

In the film, dark-skinned women share their plight. “I need a powder that doesn’t look gray. I also need a foundation that doesn’t [look] green on my skin. I don’t think they realize that we exist,” half-laughs one subject. But Iman has some advice for what dark-skinned women need to do next.

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9-Year-Old African-American Girl Kicked Out of Soccer Game Because of Her Hair

Very impressed by her sportsmanship!

This is yet another example of discrimination against difference, and lack of appreciation for another’s culture. How was this little girl’s hair going to interfere with the game? It’s very good that her mother raised her to be humble enough to take the bench and support her team, even when being treated unfairly. The same this is going on in places where they are demanding women not wear religious headdress in public because of prejudice. The people who make the rules do so without consideration for others.

After Being Rejected For a Booking Because of His Race, This Black Tech Entrepreneur Started Noirebnb.

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It’s now called Innclusive

“It’s just hair”

“Let (white) people do whatever they want!”

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court struck down several voting restrictions passed by North Carolina’s lawmakers in 2013, finding that the provisions were enacted with “racially discriminatory intent” in violation of the Voting Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.

Among the provisions at issue in the North Carolina law were limits on the type of photo ID required for voting; reductions to the amount of early voting in the state; and elimination of same-day registration, out-of-precinct provisional voting, and preregistration that allowed 16- and 17-year-olds to indicate an intent to register when they turned 18.

The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals held that “the new provisions target African Americans with almost surgical precision,” with the effect of taking away their “opportunity [to vote] because [they] were about to exercise it.”

In particular, the court looked to the fact that “the legislature requested and received racial data as to usage of the practices changed by the proposed law” before passing the law.

Looking at the facts underlying the enactment of the law, Judge Diana Motz wrote for the court, “[W]e can only conclude that the North Carolina General Assembly enacted the challenged provisions of the law with discriminatory intent.”

The ruling follows a decision from the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals last week in which that court — in a divided, en banc decision — held that Texas’ voter ID law had a discriminatory effect. The appeals court there sent the case back down to the district court to determine the appropriate remedy.

In Friday’s decision, the 4th Circuit went further, finding that the law was motivated by a discriminatory intent — not just that it had a discriminatory effect. Motz’s decision for the court took particular and repeated aim at the district court judge’s findings in the case.

“[T]he district court apparently considered [the law] simply an appropriate means for one party to counter recent success by another party,” the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals wrote of the Republican-led legislature. “We recognize that elections have consequences, but winning an election does not empower anyone in any party to engage in purposeful racial discrimination.”

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