Starting us off this week are Portland’s own The Slants, who are giving fans an interesting incentive for pre-ordering their latest album, Slants! Slants! Revolution. The band is looking to rai...
No Disrespect: Black women and the burden of respectability (Bitch Magazine)For black women, particularly those in the public eye, the answer to this question is often a resounding “Yes.” They are re...
By Guest Contributors Paul and Renee, cross-posted from Fangs For The FantasyOne of the newest trends we’re seeing in speculative fiction is the revisiting of fairy tales, especially in a modern sett...
By Arturo R. GarcíaCourtesy: Harry Cutting PhotographyYou know how it goes: It’s just a television show, we’re told. Why can’t you just enjoy it?Now a new study in Communication Res...
By Guest Contributor Janani Balasubramanian, cross-posted from STATICThere have been quite a few articles floating around the net recently about hipster racism–that is, racist attitudes that ar...
By Arturo R. GarcíaCourtesy ThinkProgress.orgWhile the national media’s been hovering over Mitt Romney’s awkward bromance with Donald Trump and his campaign’s inability to spell, it...
The White House Office of Public Engagement (WH OPE) and the East Coast Asian American Student Union (ECAASU) cordially invites you to a Youth Summit on Friday, July 6, 2012, from 9:00AM–4:00PM at Th...
By Guest Contributor Danielle Fuentes MorganCourtesy: Politico.comIt’s a question President Obama has undoubtedly been asked before. It’s almost a universal African American experience, except this t...
By Guest Contributor Jaymee Goh, cross-posted from Silver GogglesCourtesy The Future FireEarlier this month, I posted about The Future Fire’s PeerBackers project, We See A Different Frontier, a...
I had hoped that without “gatekeepers,” self-publishing and indie presses would make up some of the ground in minority representation. Instead, out of the 200+ non-PW titles I surveyed, n...
As many of us here in the United States observe Memorial Day, here are some videos worth watching about veterans from many of our communities.We’ll begin with a video that was shown here in San...
By Andrea PlaidThe under seven-year-old set and I may not agree on some things, but we agree on Kevin Clash. Kevin Clash is, to me, that Black guy that you want to go up to and hug because you know h...
This weekend marks the only time of the year I let myself watch anything even close to a reality show: It’s Eurovision time!For the uninitiated, here’s the gist of it: on Saturday, finali...
by Guest Contributor Daily Chicana, originally published at The Daily ChicanaIn my post Latina/os in academia: A look at the numbers, I shared a several statistics concerning (both in the sense of “a...
It’s been way too long since we’ve had a video from our man Jay Smooth, but he really brings it on this analysis of the Cory Booker situation, and how politicians get caught between alleg...
by Guest Contributor Daily Chicana, originally published at The Daily ChicanaFrom the San Antonio Express NewsThis past weekend, I came across “Latinas blaze path to doctoral degrees” (12 May 2...
Arturo produced a great round up when the news of Makode Aj Linde’s cake hit the net. Now, Jess Solomon of The Saartjie Project (A theatre ensemble + creative tribe of women of the African Dias...
By Arturo R. GarcíaDanny Pudi and Donald Glover (l-r). Courtesy: Hollywood.com/NBCSince Community is likely going to be a different series whenever it returns, why not introduce a sorely-needed cours...
As ever, Andrea has been curating notes on all sorts of works at the Racialicious Tumblr, including Henry Ossawa Tanner’s The Banjo Lesson:In 1893, Tanner painted this work while in Philadelphi...
T.F. Charlton: With the NSR debacle I’ve been thinking about the over-scrutiny of Black Studies and black scholars (and black people in general). It seems to me that in public and scholarly dis...
By Guest Contributor T.F. CharltonCourtesy The Atlantic WireKeeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, La TaSha B. Levy, and Ruth Hays: they’re the doctoral students Naomi Schaefer Riley smeared–in unprece...
By Guest Contributor Narinda Heng, cross-posted from Girls Like GiantsAshima Shiraishi via author. Courtesy: Julien Jarry PhotographyI’ve been climbing fences, balconies, and trees for years, b...
Meena lives in Gereshk, a town of 50,000 people in Helmand, the largest of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces. Helmand has struggled with the double burden of being one of the world’s largest opium producers...
By Andrea PlaidNew York City Reproductive Justice Coalition, a outgrowth of SisterSong NYC, proudly hosts its first reproductive-justice media conference this weekend!Attendees–and those follow...
By Andrea PlaidCourtesy: The Guardian(NSFW–Lyrics. Don’t say we didn’t warn ya!)I crush out hard on Azealia Banks because her potty-mouth lyrics make me little-kid giggle. And her v...
Known as the “Godfather of Go-Go,” the performer, singer, guitarist and songwriter developed his commanding brand of funk in the mid-1970s to compete with the dominance of disco.Like a DJ blending re...
By Guest Contributor Caitlin M. BostonCourtesy: W. Kamau BellW. Kamau Bell stands out. Tall, broad, and Black, with a coife au naturale, his physicality doesn’t exactly lend itself to anonymity...
‘Why Don’t We Have Any White Kids?’ Are Scarily Similar (New York Times)In the broad resegregation of the nation’s schools that has transpired over recent decades, New York’s public-school system loo...
Courtesy: film_posterBy Guest Contributor Fabienne Flessel, cross-posted from Global VoicesJust weeks after the debate surrounding the election of Miss Black France 2012, another question is being di...
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