Results tagged “racism”

Allegations of racism in the Houston Fire Department continue to smolder as the nation casts an eye on the Gates/Crowley arrest situation. In May, African-American firefighters sued alleging "'systemic discrimination' [on promotion exams]." A few weeks ago, racist and sexist graffiti in the women's dorm was the latest in a string of incidents at Station 54. Now the embattled department is dealing with a noose at Station 41. Per Chron.com, "an NAACP vice president, said he talked to virtually everyone at Station 41 in east Houston and concluded that the noose was an unconscious mistake, albeit hurtful to the black firefighter who reported it..." However, some citizens are not satisfied with that assessment or the captain's apology. They will be demonstrating at noon today outside city hall at the "Rally Against Hate." Let us know what you think Houston. Is the training knot incident being blown out of proportion or is this just another indicator that HFD has a serious issue? Sound off in the comments or show up at city hall.

While SFist cringed at the fatal dose of crime littering the Bay Area, it found solace in Hillary Clinton's San Francisco campaign headquarters opening, which featured loads of exposed mammary glands. In other news, SF Taxi Commission ruled that Satan's cab must keep its (in)famous medallion number, 666; and in an un-fashion-forward frenzy, San Francisco Fashion Week (chortle) bars bloggers from covering and getting smashed at their shows and parties, respectively. Also, they found a...

This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it's important to remember that there were more serious things going on in the world, too - two of them in -Ist cities. Sampaist was shocked when a passenger jet crashed into the center of Sao Paulo, killing at least 200 people. The airplane, an Airbus A320, skidded off the runway at the...

Spring appears to have, er, sprung, at least temporarily, in most of the Ist-A-Verse, so naturally, we're all feeling pretty good. (Yes, we know that spring doesn't officially start till later this month. Just let us enjoy our weather!) And that makes us that much more eager to share all of the nifty things we're up to... Over at Sampaist, spring has more than sprung: it's sweltering! But, as everyone knows, museums are an ideal...

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by heavy winds, making it a bad time to be a twelve-meter (nearly forty-foot) tall snowman. Still, not everyone decided to keep warmly covered. Meanwhile, back indoors, the Big Brother racism is now causing all kinds of headaches for international diplomats, and Londonist got into...

Houstonist has gotten all manner of Christmas cards this year: cards with cartoon characters, cards with poinsettias, cards with manger scenes and kittens and robots and sledding Victorians and lots of gold foil. But so far, we haven't received a card depicting Santa as a Nazi. But maybe we should just sit tight and see what happens: According to KTRK, someone's sending out such cards and pretending that they're coming from local universities. The cards...

Let's look back at a week in which no site in the -ist network adopted anyone from Africa... -Austinist reveled in the dumb antics of some U.T. law students and posted some great audio from former New Orleans natives who've decided to stay in Austin. But the best news for Austinist? They were voted Best Local Entertainment Web Site by the local Austin alt-weekly. Congrats, Austinist. -DCist gloried in being told their musical tastes made...