If I were to ask you what shows young, intelligent, socially aware black people watch, what would your answers be? The Daily Show and the Colbert Report, of course. Maybe Rachel Maddow. Negroes love some Anderson Cooper too. Hell, I even think Ellen Degeneres might be getting some token black viewers during these summer months. [...]
Tumblr touts itself as a place where people are free to express themselves however they see fit. Whether you’re reblogging your favorite cat videos or gawking over the latest pasty faced British actor all over BBC, it is often said that Facebook is for what’s on your mind, but Tumblr is for what’s in your [...]
Imagine a world without white privilege. The system that deems Caucasian features and white skin as a status symbol has lead to some of the greatest atrocities in human history: genocide, slavery, imperialism, and the mass incarceration and systematic murder of people of color all over the world. Anti-racist activists have long held that white [...]
John Lennon used to say that music could save the world. He also said Brian Epstein was a “fag Jew” and that “woman is the nigger of the world,” so we probably shouldn’t take everything he says too seriously. Still, I agree that music has a transformative effect on our society. If music can truly [...]
A few weeks ago, I found myself at Charlotte’s Regal Theater watching Marc Webb’s relaunch of the Spiderman series. There are good movies, there are bad movies, and then there are movies so miserably misguided that they cause you to question major facets of the universe. “If there was a God, why would She let [...]
The Emmy Nominations were recently announced. As expected, the nominees are looking mighty pale. Among the shows nominated for outstanding comedy (30 Rock, Veep, Girls, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and The Big Bang Theory), we only see four token people of color combined in their casts, and Don Cheadle and Sophia Vergara are the only non-passing [...]
Earlier today, Mother Jones posted a really informative infograph on Mitt Romney’s time in Bain Capital Ventures. Among other things, it outlined how even though Romney claims that he wasn’t running the company when Bain was going through its typical teenage “outsource thousands of American jobs” phase, he was still listed as the company’s managing [...]
The Free License Movement Call-In Campaign
By Dion Beary on August 22, 2012
Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee: these are the states perpetuating the greatest civil rights violation of our time, and no, I’m not talking about Chick-Fil-A. In those states, with possibly South Carolina and Texas joining them, voters this November will be turned away from the polls if they’re unable to produce a valid [...]
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