Ayesha Curry isn’t too upset that Donald Trump has disinvited the Golden State Warriors to the White House over comments made by her husband Stephen Curry.
The 28-year-old chef and cookbook author responded to the president with an eyeroll emoji on Twitter after he tweeted Saturday morning that Stephen and the 2017 NBA finals champs are not welcome for a visit.
“Donate to earthquake relief here,” Ayesha wrote, focusing her priorities instead on raising money for Unicef in response to the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that ripped through Mexico City earlier this week and the 6.1 magnitude earthquake that hit southern Mexico Saturday.
The 28-year-old chef and cookbook author responded to the president with an eyeroll emoji on Twitter after he tweeted Saturday morning that Stephen and the 2017 NBA finals champs are not welcome for a visit.
“Donate to earthquake relief here,” Ayesha wrote, focusing her priorities instead on raising money for Unicef in response to the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that ripped through Mexico City earlier this week and the 6.1 magnitude earthquake that hit southern Mexico Saturday.
- 9/23/2017
- by Dave Quinn
- PEOPLE.com
The immediate backlash President Trump faced on Tuesday only intensified overnight after he doubled down on his assertion that “both sides” were to blame for deadly violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“There are two sides to a story,” Trump insisted on Tuesday, echoing the widely denounced comments he made Saturday, as the violence was unfolding in Virginia.
There were “a lot of bad people in the other group too,” he added in reference to the anti-racist protesters demonstrating against the rally, one of whom, 32-year-old Heather Heyer, was killed when a driver rammed his car into a group of the counter-protesters.
“There are two sides to a story,” Trump insisted on Tuesday, echoing the widely denounced comments he made Saturday, as the violence was unfolding in Virginia.
There were “a lot of bad people in the other group too,” he added in reference to the anti-racist protesters demonstrating against the rally, one of whom, 32-year-old Heather Heyer, was killed when a driver rammed his car into a group of the counter-protesters.
- 8/16/2017
- by Tierney McAfee
- PEOPLE.com
President Donald Trump‘s administration is preparing to redirect federal resources toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action programs, a new report says.
The New York Times on Tuesday reported that the administration is planning to look into affirmative action policies aimed at bringing more minority students to university campuses, claiming that the policies discriminate against white college applicants.
The administration is planning to redirect resources from the Justice Department’s civil rights division for the effort and is seeking lawyers interested in taking legal action against “intentional race-based discrimination in college and university admissions,” the Times reports, citing...
The New York Times on Tuesday reported that the administration is planning to look into affirmative action policies aimed at bringing more minority students to university campuses, claiming that the policies discriminate against white college applicants.
The administration is planning to redirect resources from the Justice Department’s civil rights division for the effort and is seeking lawyers interested in taking legal action against “intentional race-based discrimination in college and university admissions,” the Times reports, citing...
- 8/2/2017
- by Char Adams
- PEOPLE.com
After Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs accused Republican candidate Greg Gianforte of physically assaulting him, media professionals and fellow reporters quickly voiced their outrage over the incident on social media. Jacobs shared his account of the event on Twitter — and received plenty of support. He had been pressing the candidate for details on the costs of Republicans’ plan to repeal and replace Obamacare. New York Daily News justice writer Shaun King wrote that Gianforte “should be arrested tonight. Period. He assaulted a reporter. This must never be acceptable.” Also Read: Reporter Accuses Montana Gop Candidate of Body Slamming Him and Breaking His Glasses MSNBC producer.
- 5/25/2017
- by Debbie Emery
- The Wrap
An Arkansas woman was recorded racially harassing a Latina woman named Eva Hicks and telling her to “go back to Mexico” as she shopped for medicine at a Walmart store.
In the video, a woman with a shopping cart aggressively tells Hicks, who is also a mother of three, to “go back to wherever you’re from.” The woman continues to yell racist comments at Hicks, like “You’re in America” and “This is not your country.” Another customer tries to intervene and tells the woman to not be “ignorant,” the woman responds, “A n****r is calling me ignorant?...
In the video, a woman with a shopping cart aggressively tells Hicks, who is also a mother of three, to “go back to wherever you’re from.” The woman continues to yell racist comments at Hicks, like “You’re in America” and “This is not your country.” Another customer tries to intervene and tells the woman to not be “ignorant,” the woman responds, “A n****r is calling me ignorant?...
- 5/25/2017
- by Thatiana Diaz
- PEOPLE.com
Torch-wielding protesters, including a prominent white nationalist, rallied around a statue of Confederacy leader Robert E. Lee slated for removal and chanted racist slogans in Charlottesville, Virginia, Saturday night.
Richard Spencer, a white nationalist who popularized the term “alt-right,” led two events in the town he once attended school at the University of Virginia to defend the statue. The first rally took place as a march through Charlottesville, and after dark protesters gathered in Lee Park carrying what appear to be tiki torches. Spencer tweeted a photo of himself holding such a torch.
“You will not replace us. You will not destroy us,...
Richard Spencer, a white nationalist who popularized the term “alt-right,” led two events in the town he once attended school at the University of Virginia to defend the statue. The first rally took place as a march through Charlottesville, and after dark protesters gathered in Lee Park carrying what appear to be tiki torches. Spencer tweeted a photo of himself holding such a torch.
“You will not replace us. You will not destroy us,...
- 5/15/2017
- by Stephanie Petit
- PEOPLE.com
On Monday, President Trump took one of his tweets to the next level … of his Twitter profile.
The president was widely mocked on social media after he briefly changed his Twitter banner to display one of his own tweets.
The tweet itself came after former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing that he was not aware of any evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
“Director Clapper reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows – there is ‘no evidence’ of collusion w/ Russia and Trump,” read Trump’s tweet, which...
The president was widely mocked on social media after he briefly changed his Twitter banner to display one of his own tweets.
The tweet itself came after former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing that he was not aware of any evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
“Director Clapper reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows – there is ‘no evidence’ of collusion w/ Russia and Trump,” read Trump’s tweet, which...
- 5/9/2017
- by Tierney McAfee
- PEOPLE.com
Dylann Roof’s mass murder of nine black churchgoers in 2015 left behind many loved ones, some of whom have begun speaking out following a jury’s decision Tuesday that Roof should die for his racially-motivated crimes.
Roof’s sentencing “sends a strong message” about the intolerance for hate crimes, Malcolm Graham told the Associated Press. Graham’s sister, Cynthia Hurd, was killed in the 2015 attack.
There is “no room in a civilized society for hatred, racism and discrimination,” Graham told the AP.
A second of Hurd’s brothers, Melvin Graham (pictured above), agreed: “Today we had justice for my sister,...
Roof’s sentencing “sends a strong message” about the intolerance for hate crimes, Malcolm Graham told the Associated Press. Graham’s sister, Cynthia Hurd, was killed in the 2015 attack.
There is “no room in a civilized society for hatred, racism and discrimination,” Graham told the AP.
A second of Hurd’s brothers, Melvin Graham (pictured above), agreed: “Today we had justice for my sister,...
- 1/11/2017
- by Adam Carlson
- PEOPLE.com
Digital news outlet The Young Turks (Tyt) is trying to raise two million dollars to fund the creation of four new investigative journalism teams, and with three weeks left before that crowdfunding campaign’s Inauguration Day deadline, it has passed the $500,000 mark. To celebrate that milestone, The Young Turks has announced two new hires to its team: Nomiki Konst has joined the progressive-leaning network as an investigative reporter, while Shaun King has come on as a commentator.
Konst is a political activist who hosts her own show on SiriusXM radio. In an introductory chat with Young Turks co-founder Cenk Uygur, she praised the efforts of Tyt’s first journalist hire, Jordan Chariton, who has reported from newsworthy locations like Flint and Standing Rock. As the next addition to Tyt’s investigative team, Konst will add to Chariton’s work with some of her own.
King, for those who keep in...
Konst is a political activist who hosts her own show on SiriusXM radio. In an introductory chat with Young Turks co-founder Cenk Uygur, she praised the efforts of Tyt’s first journalist hire, Jordan Chariton, who has reported from newsworthy locations like Flint and Standing Rock. As the next addition to Tyt’s investigative team, Konst will add to Chariton’s work with some of her own.
King, for those who keep in...
- 12/29/2016
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has apologized for spreading fake news after being called out by New York Daily News columnist Shaun King. Huckabee, who has more than two million Facebook fans, posted a Conservative Tribune article about vandalism at Northwestern University and blamed “liberal, Jewish Northwestern students who were trying to smear Trump and his supporters.” King pointed out that “actual incident happened eight months ago” and Huckabee took notice. Also Read: President Obama's Passionate Plea to Ignore Fake News: 'There's So Much Active Misinformation' “They accused me of spreading false information and hatred,...
- 11/18/2016
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
[Youtube "WKevvAyWuLI"] Korryn Gaines, a 23-year-old mother of two, is dead and her 5-year-old son is in hospital after an hours-long standoff with police that ensued when Gaines refused to surrender to officers who presented an arrest warrant. The incident occurred in Baltimore on Monday and has since garnered national attention and garnered thousands of conflicting opinions on social media. However according to a press release from Baltimore County Police Chief Jim Johnson and the county police spokeswoman Elise Armacost, Gaines is said to have verbally threatened and waved a 12 gauge shotgun at officers throughout the 7 hour standoff. Police had at least...
- 8/3/2016
- by Naja Rayne, @najarayne
- PEOPLE.com
Image Source: Getty / Kevin Winter The Teen Choice Awards may be a fun award show for young people to celebrate their favorite pop culture figures, but that doesn't mean it can't be a platform for change. The show took a surprisingly poignant turn this year when Jessica Alba took the stage with 10 teenage family members of gun violence victims. Jessica, along with singer Ne-Yo and the victims' families, brought the Teen Choice audience to tears by begging viewers to "stop the violence." this is such a beautiful tribute and it holds such a powerful message #TeenChoice #StopTheViolence pic.twitter.com/8rDgP8v0cT - antonio del otero (@antoniodelotero) August 1, 2016 Particularly powerful was the presence of Alton Sterling's 15-year-old son, whose message to police brutality protesters about peace has inspired many during these dark, confusing times. The moving speech, which culminated in a call to action for viewers to share photos...
- 8/1/2016
- by Brinton Parker
- Popsugar.com
Shaun King’s former New York Daily News editor, Jotham Sederstrom, has told his side of the story for the first time since being fired after the paper blamed him for plagiarism accusations hurled against the columnist. “This was my fault and I accept 100% of the blame,” Sederstrom wrote in a Medium blog post. “Over the past 48 hours, as countless conspiracy theories have rippled across Twitter — many propagated by Shaun’s critics, whose hatred, I believe, boils down to either the color of his skin or the bluish-hue of his politics – it’s become clear that I need to share my.
- 4/21/2016
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
The New York Daily News is standing behind Shaun King amid the criminal justice columnist’s plagiarism scandal, placing the blame on King’s editor instead. “We have discovered today that over the course of the past few months one of our editors has made a series of egregious and inexplicable errors,” the paper’s editor-in-chief Jim Rich said in a statement released to CNN on Tuesday. “On at least three separate occasions, the editor deleted attribution that made it appear passages from Shaun King’s columns were not properly credited. These mistakes are unacceptable and the editor in question has been fired,...
- 4/19/2016
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Shaun King, a civil rights activist and NY Daily News correspondent, thought Chris Rock‘s Oscars monologue was a “hot mess.” “I kept waiting for him to say something, anything that made one bit of logical sense, but it quickly devolved into a garbled mess of illogical nonsense,” King wrote on Facebook. “It got worse. Way worse. Like I almost changed the channel on Chris Rock worse.” King took issue with Rock’s comment that the only reason black people didn’t protest the Oscars in 1962 or 1963 was because “we had real things to protest at the time.” Also Read: How Chris Rock Tackled #OscarsSoWhite.
- 2/29/2016
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
Shaun King and Fox Sports personality Jason Whitlock are in the midst of an epic Twitter beef. King, a civil rights activist and a New York Daily News reporter, had his race questioned last year at the height of his involvement in Black Lives Matter. Whitlock took to his J. School blog to and referred to “advocacy writers masquerading as journalists.” This was apparently a dig at King’s recent Daily News story in which King claimed Peyton Manning’s “squeaky-clean image was built on lies.” Also Read: Maria Bartiromo's Business Advice For Kanye West: 'That's Not the...
- 2/17/2016
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
Shaun King, a Black Lives Matter leader whose race came into question over the summer, is speaking out against “pervasive” racism on Twitter that is so common “it’s basically impossible to use the service as a person of color.” King, a senior justice writer for the New York Daily News, published a thought-provoking op-ed for the paper on Wednesday, and called for an end to the epidemic of hate speech on the social media platform. “Racists now post messages on every single hashtag of interest to black folk. Almost always without their real names or faces, racists will use racial slurs.
- 11/12/2015
- by Jordan Chariton
- The Wrap
Shaun King, a Black Lives Matter leader whose race came into question this week following media reports that suggested his father is white, fired back on Thursday at “lies” reported by conservative media. “The reports about my race, about my past and about the pain I’ve endured are all lies,” he wrote in a blog post for The Daily Kos. King, who identifies as biracial, explained that he was told his whole life “the white man on my birth certificate is not my biological father and that my actual biological father is a light-skinned black man,” adding how embarrassed he is to even be.
- 8/21/2015
- by Jordan Chariton
- The Wrap
Shaun King, a key figure in the Black Lives Matter movement, has been accused of lying about his biracial background. Shaun King Another Rachel Dolezal? Throughout his public life, King has maintained that he was born to a white mother and a black father. However, a birth certificate unearthed by Beitbart News says otherwise. On […]
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- 8/20/2015
- by Chelsea Regan
- Uinterview
Did a popular activist in the Black Lives Matter movement lie about being biracial? Shaun King, a 35-year-old man from Kentucky, recently came under attack from conservative bloggers, who allege that he lied about having parents of different races. Amid an online backlash, the case has drawn comparisons to Rachel Dolezal, a civil rights activist born to white parents who sparked criticism for self-identifying as a black woman. Shaun called the controversy, which drew the attention of scores of Twitter users, including Montel Williams, a "white supremacist conspiracy." "If you have known me from when I was in elementary school at Huntertown Elementary until now, you've known me as black...
- 8/20/2015
- E! Online
Shaun King isn't faking anything ... no fake hairstyles, no fake tanning -- in other words, he's not at all like Rachel Dolezal, according to the "Black Lives Matter" activist's wife. Rai King posted a lengthy and passionate defense of her husband in the wake of a conservative blog's allegation he's lied about his ethnicity. She said, "What's white about him is white, and what's Black about him is Black and always has been from the time he was a child.
- 8/20/2015
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
3:30 Pm Pt -- King is finally responding to the allegations ... with a Twitter rant, but he's playing it close to the vest. He says, "Out of Love for my family, I've never gone public with my racial story because it's hurtful, scandalous, and it's My Story." He also claims the whole story is a right-wing "hit piece." Rachel Dolezal is not alone, allegedly -- one of the leading Black Lives Matter activists might actually...
- 8/19/2015
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Warren Sapp isn't a deadbeat diner and tips his tail off for good service ... that's according to former teammate Shaun King who tells TMZ Sports Warren is getting a bad rap in the tip-gate fiasco.We spoke to King, who played with Sapp on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1999 to 2003 and he tells us Warren is an A+ gratuity giver -- as long as the service is up to par."Hell Yeah he's a good...
- 7/2/2014
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Michael Sam is doing himself a Huge disservice by getting into bed with Oprah ... so says former NFL Qb Shaun King who thinks Sam's reality show will seriously hurt his chances of making the Rams. As we previously reported, Sam is doing a docu-drama for the Own Network about his journey to the NFL -- and cameras have been rolling since before the NFL Draft. Now, King -- who played in the league from 1999 to...
- 5/15/2014
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
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