The teens claim the act was intended to be a joke for one of the girls' boyfriends, who is Black.
A group of military students at the Citadel who dressed up as Ku Klux Klan members in a viral photo in December were punished for the act this week.
Six high school seniors from Desert Vista High School were seen in a photo spelling out "nigger." The photo was taken on the popular social media app Snapchat and posted to Twitter, where it went viral on Friday.
Trayon Christian was awarded $45,000 from the company this week. The incident happened in April 2013, when the then 19-year-old went to the Manhattan location to purchase a $348 Ferragamo belt. Barneys employees allegedly believed he bought the belt with a fraudulent credit card.
They are planning to make changes in an effort to diversify their board and nominations in the future.
Whiteness History Month is actually a thing, at least at a college in Portland, Ore.
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) deemed President Obama the most "racially divisive president since slavery."
Actress and producer Jada Pinkett Smith took to social media to express her disappointment
PBS host Tavis Smiley told Megyn Kelly that the president has essentially failed Black Americans, seizing the moment to tout his new book, “The Covenant With Black America: Ten Years Later.”
Lindsay Lohan is back to her old ways.
