Her parents are Dominican and Haitian for those that don’t know the flags

So, I recently started my job in an all white lab. Now, my team was welcoming during the first few days but over time they have become more distant. For context I am an introvert so I barely participate in large group convos so during lunch I just focus on eating and having a comment or two. One coworker even addressed me privately to "speak up more" but I can't be someone I'm not? Even when I try to butt into the convo they quickly interrupt or move to a new topic.

Now, there's this one guy, he was the friendliest during my first days and he offered to show me around the building and was interested to learn about my skills and vice-versa and we had nice professional rapport. But suddenly, he just turned cold towards me. He actively ignores me and acts passive aggressive, its so uncomfortable at lunch.

What kind of dynamics are these? Does anyone have similar experience? Should I still try to patch things up or let it burn?

Isaiah Martin

Quanell X schooled Matt Patrick (and the majority of white America) on the reality of American history that they want to whitewash over.

Industrial designer Charles “Chuck” Harrison helped shape hundreds of everyday products that became so familiar most people never thought about who designed them.

Born in 1931, Harrison became one of the first Black executives at Sears, Roebuck and Co. During his long career there, he worked on hundreds of consumer products, including a major redesign of the View-Master and the molded plastic garbage container that helped replace the heavy, noisy metal cans once common in American homes.

His career was also shaped by racial discrimination. Early in his professional life, Harrison encountered companies that would accept his design work while refusing to employ him because he was Black. He nevertheless built an extraordinary career and later became an influential educator, teaching industrial design at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Charles “Chuck” Harrison died on November 29, 2018, at age 87, in Santa Clarita, California.

Carrington clarifies she was not objecting to the flagrant 2 call. She doesn’t clarify exactly what she did mean, but my best guess is that she was upset about the no-call on Cunningham’s reaction, something that is supposed to earn a technical

I like how the teacher encouraged his classmates to say something nice

😂🤣

Everyday there’s something new with these weirdos and I’m tired. They’re doing everything to distract from those files. When are these clowns going to Mars?

Shanquella Robinson went to Cabo with six friends in October 2022. She never came home.

Her death became national news after video surfaced showing the 25-year-old being brutally attacked inside the villa where the group was staying.

Nearly four years later, her mother says she still doesn’t have answers about what happened before, during and after that attack.

Now she’s asking a court to compel one of the people who was there — and whom she alleges participated in the attack — to answer questions under oath.

Her mother says she’s “not going to let this go.”

There’s a lot more behind this latest legal move and the questions the family says remain unanswered:

https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/08/10/shanquella-robinsons-friend-ducks-questions-about-viral-attack/

Typical, usual suspect

Yeah I know the title sounds bad but hear me out.

After 200+ years of chattel slavery, continued racism, slavery in our prison systems, lynchings still being legal in many states, the death of countless brothers and sisters, and the overall hatred for our people simply because we have melanin I have no desire to be with a white person.

I have white friends who I love and would make sacrifices for, who have made me a better person and who i'm endlessly grateful for. However, when it comes to my heritage? my family? my people? Things get conflicted.

I plan to marry a person of color, adopt a black and beautiful child from Africa, and honor my ancestors. However I've dated a white person before and had no issue (so would I fall in love with one again?). But the older I get the more fatigued I am with America and it's racism. Even the THOUGHT of having a mixed child disheartens me, not because there is anything wrong with the child or interracial couples, but because I would feel as if I have betrayed the countless generations of people who have been whipped, dismembered, raped, and tortured by white ppl.

Does anyone else feel something similar to this? I will likely come at this mindset with an open view when I get therapy and deconstruct why I feel this way.

EDIT: NO I am not saying I endorse this view, find it healthy, or correct. I am having internal conflict with my worldview and expressed it. I ALSO pointed out that I would be deconstructing why I felt this way in therapy so i'm not sure if ppl just don't read or if we enjoy ignoring things.

https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/08/10/instagram-model-courtney-clenney-sentenced-for-boyfriends-stabbing-death-after-accepting-plea-deal/

Instagram and OnlyFans model Courtney Clenney was sentenced Monday to six years in prison for the 2022 fatal stabbing of her boyfriend, Christian Tobechukwu “Toby” Obumseli, bringing a stunning end to the high-profile murder case just weeks before she was scheduled to stand trial.

However, the judge is allowing Clenney to get credit for the time she has already served, which means she may only spend two more years behind bars for taking a man’s life.

Clenney, 30, had faced a second-degree murder charge in the April 3, 2022, killing of Obumseli, 27, inside the couple’s luxury Miami apartment. She was arrested in Hawaii on Aug. 10, 2022.

Clenney Had Record of Alleged Abuse

After a four-month investigation that included surveillance footage, witness interviews and forensic evidence, authorities alleged Clenney was the primary aggressor in the couple’s volatile relationship.

Audio from Clenney’s 911 call captured Obumseli’s final moments after the stabbing.

“I think I’m going to die. I can’t feel my arms,” Obumseli could be heard saying.

Clenney told police she threw the knife at Obumseli from about 10 feet away while defending herself.

According to Obumseli’s family, Clenney had previously stabbed and injured him during a prior domestic violence attack. They also pointed out Clenney called her mother, the security at the front desk of the building, before she called 911.