Allyson Friedman is an associate professor at Hunter College. She has faced significant backlash after a racist remark she made was caught on a live microphone during a Community Education Council (CEC3) meeting earlier this month. The comments were made on February 10. This was during a hybrid virtual meeting about Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plan […]
Conservative commentator Candace Owens has challenged Turning Point USA’s (TPUSA) claim that its All-American Halftime Show attracted over 20 million viewers. This disagreement has sparked a heated debate about the event’s actual audience numbers. TPUSA, a right-wing nonprofit organization, hosted its All-American Halftime Show at the same time as the NFL’s Apple Music Super Bowl […]
Maryland Governor Wes Moore, the nation’s only Black sitting governor and vice chair of the National Governors Association, criticized the Trump White House after finding out he was excluded from this year’s traditionally bipartisan National Governors Association dinner at the White House. The decision breaks a decades-long tradition that has promoted federal-state cooperation. The annual […]
President Donald Trump sparked outrage on February 6, 2026, after posting a video on his Truth Social account that briefly shows former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes. This imagery is a historically racist trope that dehumanizes Black people. The footage is part of a longer clip promoting false 2020 […]
Donald Trump has threatened to sue comedian Trevor Noah over a joke made during the 2026 Grammy Awards. This has sparked a new media controversy. During the awards show, Noah joked in his opening monologue that Trump “needs a new island to hang out on with Bill Clinton” since Jeffrey Epstein’s private island is no […]
