They are two men called David – but the contrast between them could hardly be more stark. A BBC ‘lifer’ of more than 30 years, David Jordan is the Corporation’s chief trouble-shooter tasked with upholding its editorial standards and investigating when Auntie gets it wrong. Meanwhile, Jamaican-born David Whitely – better known as Sideman – … Read more
BBC to crack down on use of ‘racially insulting language’ after N-word row with any planned mention now being referred to an executive BBC received more than 18,500 complaints after journalist used offensive term Editorial director Kamal Ahmed has written to staff about new plans Racist language on news and current affairs should be referred … Read more
Tyson Fury has sparked outrage by using the n-word while singing with his children on his 32nd birthday. The heavyweight champion and father-of-five shared a video of him celebrating with his family and wife Paris, 30, on Wednesday at their home in Morecambe, where he was captured on film saying the racial slur. The Gypsy … Read more
Black Irish woman records shocking video of a racist man repeatedly yelling the n-word at her and telling her to ‘go back to your own country’ The video shows a racist man shouting the extremely offensive term in Galway The woman filming says: ‘Don’t talk to me like that’ as he continues to yell at … Read more
BBC 1Xtra presenter Sideman has quit today after the broadcaster defended its decision to air footage of a white person using the N-word. The presenter said he ‘can’t look the other way’ after BBC social affairs correspondent Fiona Lamdin repeated the word in a report on a racially motivated hit-and-run attack. The presenter, whose real name is … Read more
More than 18,000 people complained to the BBC over a news report which contained a racist term, according to figures from the broadcaster. During a report last week on a suspected racially-motivated attack in Bristol, social affairs correspondent Fiona Lamdin repeated a racial slur which was allegedly used during the incident. The story ran on … Read more
Mary Trump, the niece of President Trump, has said she heard her uncle use the n-word and anti-Semitic slurs. Speaking to Rachel Maddow on MSNBC she said: ‘Of course I did. And I don’t think that should surprise anybody given how virulently racist he is today.’ Mary Trump had earlier said in a new interview about … Read more
Michigan woman calls her white neighbors the N-word for ‘screaming in the street in early hours’ in a vile tirade (but is thrilled to be called out as racist by Ice T) The woman, who has been identified as Jessica Evans, ranted on street in Adrian Appeared to be dressed in pyjamas and wore no shoes … Read more
White chef yells ‘black lives don’t matter’, says ‘blacks should be slaves’ and calls driver the N-word in shocking racist attack in upstate New York Video shows the man, who identifies himself as Barry Wardell, yelling at a driver: ‘Put me on Facebook, black lives don’t matter! N****r!’ Wardell claimed he works as a chef … Read more
A black driver who started selling T-shirts on the back of a viral video in which he accused a white woman of using the n-word in a traffic row has defended his right to profit from the incident. Karlos Dillard blasted his critics Wednesday saying white people ‘profit off of everything black people do in … Read more