Actor LeVar Burton just came face-to-face with the inconvenient truth when he found out he's actually descended from a white dude. And not just any white dude - a Confederate soldier, no less. And his reaction was priceless - and also extremely stupid.
But while this Black man is grappling with his own sense of self-identity simply because he's got a melanin-deprived great-great-great-grandpa, the King Arthur Baking Company is hosting a competition for people of color, #NoWhitesAllowed. Because 60 years after Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech, segregation is all the rage, and it's fueled by the same racism that once held Blacks in chains.
Speaking of which, the CEO of United Airlines says at least half of all the company's new pilots will be women and people of color. Because when you're thousands of feet in the air over a desert and you hit some turbulence, all that matters is...the pigment of your pilot's skin?
We're breaking down all that and more on the latest episode of The Brittany Hughes Show, available here or wherever you get your podcasts!