Bring That Week Back: TJ Maxx Pulls Offensive T-Shirt

Plus, pregnant woman attacked by man for not thanking him.

TJ Maxx Pulls Offensive T-Shirt - Plus, pregnant woman attacked by man for not thanking him after he held a door open for her. — Natelege Whaley  TJ Maxx pulled an offensive T-shirt from its stores that read the words “Hang Loose” and had an image of a noose printed on it. A Twitter user by the name of @PsychoGF_ in Kissimmee, FL, posted an image of the shirt online, and this was followed with tweets bashing the store for carrying the offensive clothing line. "We are deeply sorry to anyone who may have been offended. The shirt is being pulled from stores immediately," TJ Maxx tweeted Tuesday.  (Photo: Tavik)

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TJ Maxx Pulls Offensive T-Shirt - Plus, pregnant woman attacked by man for not thanking him after he held a door open for her. — Natelege Whaley  TJ Maxx pulled an offensive T-shirt from its stores that read the words “Hang Loose” and had an image of a noose printed on it. A Twitter user by the name of @PsychoGF_ in Kissimmee, FL, posted an image of the shirt online, and this was followed with tweets bashing the store for carrying the offensive clothing line. "We are deeply sorry to anyone who may have been offended. The shirt is being pulled from stores immediately," TJ Maxx tweeted Tuesday.  (Photo: Tavik)

Nancy Giles Mistakes Jay Smooth as a White Person - What an awkward moment. Jay Smooth, a writer and video blogger, was featured on MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes to discuss Starbucks' new #RaceTogether campaign on Tuesday. CBS Sunday Morning's Nancy Giles told Smooth that people would think it's interesting that he "co-opted" a Black man's mannerism in some of his video blogs. "It's also interesting because I'm actually Black, but you assumed otherwise," said Smooth to Giles. (Photo: MSNBC)

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Nancy Giles Mistakes Jay Smooth as a White Person - What an awkward moment. Jay Smooth, a writer and video blogger, was featured on MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes to discuss Starbucks' new #RaceTogether campaign on Tuesday. CBS Sunday Morning's Nancy Giles told Smooth that people would think it's interesting that he "co-opted" a Black man's mannerism in some of his video blogs. "It's also interesting because I'm actually Black, but you assumed otherwise," said Smooth to Giles. (Photo: MSNBC)

Marc Lamont Hill and Trinidad James Break Down N-Word - If white people can’t say the n-word, why can Black people use it among themselves?  During a segment with CNN’s Don Lemon, commentator Ben Ferguson, Marc Lamont Hill and rapper Trinidad James, the four discussed this topic amid the recent video released showing an SAE frat chant the word. “We use the word because that’s how we came up,” James said. Hill later added, “We share a collective condition known as ‘nigga.’  “White people don’t.” (Photos from left: Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images, Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images)

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Marc Lamont Hill and Trinidad James Break Down N-Word - If white people can’t say the n-word, why can Black people use it among themselves?  During a segment with CNN’s Don Lemon, commentator Ben Ferguson, Marc Lamont Hill and rapper Trinidad James, the four discussed this topic amid the recent video released showing an SAE frat chant the word. “We use the word because that’s how we came up,” James said. Hill later added, “We share a collective condition known as ‘nigga.’  “White people don’t.” (Photos from left: Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images, Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images)

Black Girl Says Friend Wasn't Allowed to Come to Sleepover Because of Race - A Memphis parent did not allow their daughter to attend a birthday sleepover for her friend Harmony Jones because of her race. “Maybe I will not be able to go to your birthday sleepover because my dad will not let me go because you are Black,” Harmony’s friend wrote in a letter, according to WREG . Harmony’s father, Christopher Jones, hopes a learning experience will follow from this situation. “I guess we as parents need to be more aware and conscious about what we teach our children,” he said. (Photo: Tim Macpherson / Getty Images)

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Black Girl Says Friend Wasn't Allowed to Come to Sleepover Because of Race - A Memphis parent did not allow their daughter to attend a birthday sleepover for her friend Harmony Jones because of her race. “Maybe I will not be able to go to your birthday sleepover because my dad will not let me go because you are Black,” Harmony’s friend wrote in a letter, according to WREG . Harmony’s father, Christopher Jones, hopes a learning experience will follow from this situation. “I guess we as parents need to be more aware and conscious about what we teach our children,” he said. (Photo: Tim Macpherson / Getty Images)

Pregnant Woman Attacked for Not Saying Thank You - Darryl Guillyard deserves whatever punishment is coming his way after attacking a pregnant woman for not saying thank you after he held the door open for her. Lakeeya Walker, 22, who is seven weeks pregnant, said Guillyard first called Walker an ungrateful b**** and then threw his cup of coffee on her. He then choked her and began hitting her, the victim told CBS News.  He then slammed her body down and began kicking her. (Photo: New York City Police Department)

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Pregnant Woman Attacked for Not Saying Thank You - Darryl Guillyard deserves whatever punishment is coming his way after attacking a pregnant woman for not saying thank you after he held the door open for her. Lakeeya Walker, 22, who is seven weeks pregnant, said Guillyard first called Walker an ungrateful b**** and then threw his cup of coffee on her. He then choked her and began hitting her, the victim told CBS News.  He then slammed her body down and began kicking her. (Photo: New York City Police Department)

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Mom Arrested by Police After Asking Them to Talk to Kids About Stealing - Tyeesha Mobley, 29, of the Bronx, New York, wanted to give one of her sons a lesson about why it’s not good to steal, so she called 911 to get an officer to speak to him. Instead, she says an officer arrested her and had her children taken out of her custody for four months. She was charged with child endangerment, but the charges were later dropped. Mobley is suing the NYPD and the Administration for Children’s Service for the incident. “You Black b****es don’t know how to take care of your kids.… You need to call the kids’ father, not us.… We can’t raise your kids,” the officer said to Mobley, according to the lawsuit.  (Photo: Tyeesha Mobley via Facebook)

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Mom Arrested by Police After Asking Them to Talk to Kids About Stealing - Tyeesha Mobley, 29, of the Bronx, New York, wanted to give one of her sons a lesson about why it’s not good to steal, so she called 911 to get an officer to speak to him. Instead, she says an officer arrested her and had her children taken out of her custody for four months. She was charged with child endangerment, but the charges were later dropped. Mobley is suing the NYPD and the Administration for Children’s Service for the incident. “You Black b****es don’t know how to take care of your kids.… You need to call the kids’ father, not us.… We can’t raise your kids,” the officer said to Mobley, according to the lawsuit.  (Photo: Tyeesha Mobley via Facebook)

Bad Cops Being Investigated for Exchanging Racist, Homophobic Texts - Four San Francisco officers are being investigated for exchanging hateful text messages that were mostly racist and homophobic in nature, CBS San Francisco reports. One officer, Ian Furminger, was already convicted last December for robbing drug dealers as a sergeant. “We got 2 blacks at my boys school and they are brother and sister! There cause dad works for the school district and I am watching them like hawks,” he wrote in a message, recovered from his phone.  (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

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Bad Cops Being Investigated for Exchanging Racist, Homophobic Texts - Four San Francisco officers are being investigated for exchanging hateful text messages that were mostly racist and homophobic in nature, CBS San Francisco reports. One officer, Ian Furminger, was already convicted last December for robbing drug dealers as a sergeant. “We got 2 blacks at my boys school and they are brother and sister! There cause dad works for the school district and I am watching them like hawks,” he wrote in a message, recovered from his phone.  (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Boyfriend Funds Spring Break Trip to Follow Girlfriend - Azel Prather Jr. successfully raised more than $300 on GoFundMe to travel to Miami so he could be a “chaperone” for his girlfriend’s trip with her friends. The possessive boyfriend said he couldn’t stand to lose her to the fun and the sand and sun of Miami. “I will be staying wherever she lays her head, eating whatever she eats, and overseeing all parties and fun activity for the duration of the trip,” he said on his fund-raising page. (Photo: Azel Prather Jr. via Gofundme.com)

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Boyfriend Funds Spring Break Trip to Follow Girlfriend - Azel Prather Jr. successfully raised more than $300 on GoFundMe to travel to Miami so he could be a “chaperone” for his girlfriend’s trip with her friends. The possessive boyfriend said he couldn’t stand to lose her to the fun and the sand and sun of Miami. “I will be staying wherever she lays her head, eating whatever she eats, and overseeing all parties and fun activity for the duration of the trip,” he said on his fund-raising page. (Photo: Azel Prather Jr. via Gofundme.com)

Family of Mentally Ill Black Man Killed by Police Releases Graphic Video - Jason Harrison, 38, was killed in Dallas on June 14, 2014, by police officers who were responding to his mother’s call for help in taking him to the hospital. Harrison was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and was having a mental episode, Reuters reports. The cops were wearing body cameras and the family released the video Tuesday showing the man holding a screwdriver when they arrived. Cops demanded that Harrison drop the tool, and when he didn’t, they opened fire on him.  (Photo: Dallas Police Department)

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Family of Mentally Ill Black Man Killed by Police Releases Graphic Video - Jason Harrison, 38, was killed in Dallas on June 14, 2014, by police officers who were responding to his mother’s call for help in taking him to the hospital. Harrison was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and was having a mental episode, Reuters reports. The cops were wearing body cameras and the family released the video Tuesday showing the man holding a screwdriver when they arrived. Cops demanded that Harrison drop the tool, and when he didn’t, they opened fire on him.  (Photo: Dallas Police Department)

Coast Guard Training Facility in D.C. Named After Black Woman  - The Coast Guard Headquarters will name a training center in Washington, D.C., after the first African-American woman to join the service, Fox News reports. Olivia Hooker, from Tulsa, Okla., turned 100 in February. She entered the U.S Coast Guard in 1945. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Coast Guard Training Facility in D.C. Named After Black Woman  - The Coast Guard Headquarters will name a training center in Washington, D.C., after the first African-American woman to join the service, Fox News reports. Olivia Hooker, from Tulsa, Okla., turned 100 in February. She entered the U.S Coast Guard in 1945. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Museum to Be Built Where Slaves Were First Brought to America - History will continue to live on at the Charleston waterfront where enslaved Africans were brought to America for the first time in 1783. Organizers began laying down the plans for what is to become the International African American Museum. The new institution will hold the stories of these people and tell how they went about surviving in their new environments, the Reading Eagle reports. It is expected to open in 2018. (Photo: AP Photo/Bruce Smith)

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Museum to Be Built Where Slaves Were First Brought to America - History will continue to live on at the Charleston waterfront where enslaved Africans were brought to America for the first time in 1783. Organizers began laying down the plans for what is to become the International African American Museum. The new institution will hold the stories of these people and tell how they went about surviving in their new environments, the Reading Eagle reports. It is expected to open in 2018. (Photo: AP Photo/Bruce Smith)

Ebony Delays New Issue to Ensure Increase in Their Ad Rates - Ebony Magazine delayed the next issue of their magazine in order to confirm higher ad rates for the publication that will now be “the same market rates as any other magazine,” CEO Desiree Rogers told Richard Prince’s Journal-isms. The March issue will be combined with the April issue in order to get advertisers to agree on the new company rates. This will be the first issue produced since the recent departure of Mitzi Miller, who held the position as editor-in-chief up until Feb. 20.  (Photo: Ebony Magazine, February 2015)

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Ebony Delays New Issue to Ensure Increase in Their Ad Rates - Ebony Magazine delayed the next issue of their magazine in order to confirm higher ad rates for the publication that will now be “the same market rates as any other magazine,” CEO Desiree Rogers told Richard Prince’s Journal-isms. The March issue will be combined with the April issue in order to get advertisers to agree on the new company rates. This will be the first issue produced since the recent departure of Mitzi Miller, who held the position as editor-in-chief up until Feb. 20.  (Photo: Ebony Magazine, February 2015)