Cleveland’s Major League Baseball team confirmed Monday that it will drop its problematic “Indians” tag after ire from fans and Native American groups alike who decried the moniker as racist. The organisation affirmed the change in a statement on Twitter, but has yet to decide on a replacement name for the long-held “Indians” tag adopted […]
Twitter said Wednesday it was expanding its definition of hateful content to ban language which “dehumanizes” people on the basis of race, ethnicity or national origin. The move announced by the messaging platform is the latest to refine its definition of abusive and harmful content which has led to a backlash against social networks. Twitter […]
In a slanderous document laced with conspiracies and falsehoods, a prominent law enforcement training group has urged local officials to view Black Lives Matter activism as a terrorist plot towards a grander violent revolution. The International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association [ILEETA] have spread inflammatory rhetoric that could misinform the reader and consequently incite […]
Ever since their 1988 “Just Do It” ad, sports brand Nike has become known for producing commercials that spark a conversation and leave a lasting impression on viewers. Last year saw the brand tackling the negative undertones in queries launched at tennis star Naomi Osaka — in spotlight this year as well for donning several masks […]
Ridiculed once again in a film featuring fictional Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev, the ex-Soviet state of Kazakhstan has embraced the joke this time round and adopted Borat’s catch phrase to try to attract tourists. “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” a follow-up to […]
Climate plan an ‘economic disaster, drafted under AOC plus three’, loss of jobs resulting in a move to defunct fracking, ‘big man’ allegation over Hunter Biden corruption scandal, 1994’s ‘racist’ Crime Bill, and dissent over ‘poor job’ in office over course of Former President Obama’s two terms — some of the incumbent Republican Donald Trump’s […]
A path to COVID recovery, Trump’s ‘corrupted’ foreign dalliance, a critique on POTUS’s non-existent healthcare, and rampant racism — some of Democratic camp Joe Biden’s key addressals at final round of US Presidential Debate 2020, ahead of Nov. 3 Election Day.
Last week, at the campaign’s closing debates, President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden took up their final stances, shelving the chaos that presided over their previous face-off in favour of a more substantive exchange that highlighted vastly different approaches to the major domestic and foreign challenges facing the nation. They fought over several […]
Former President Barack Obama blasted President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus, his culpability in national discord and his overall fitness for the job on Wednesday as he made his first in-person campaign pitch for his former vice president, Joe Biden. With less than two weeks before Election Day, Obama used a drive-in campaign rally […]
Disney+ has plussed out with the wording of its updated disclaimer, owning up to past errors that racialized its era-bygone characters — and now, subtly adding a new layer to its warnings to all its ‘negative’ content. The streaming platform has rephrased its initial “outdated cultural depictions” warning — in use since November 2019 with a 12-second, cannot-be-skipped […]
