Skin care brand Nivea is currently pushing its line of men’s grooming products with ads telling men to step their appearance game up. That’s great but, um, unfortunately they’ve decided to take a shot at our afroed brothers: Post-Racial America, ladies and gents! Unsurprisingly, the internet uproar got back to the folks at the company […]
Black women are complaining that the Transportation Security Administration is engaging in a new, humiliating brand of racial profiling: pat-downs of long, natural hair-dos. According to an article by Joe Sharkey in the New York Times, these body searches are happening even when total-body scans aren’t setting off alarms: On June 30, a young African-American […]
Psychology Today magazine recently posted an article on their site titled: “Why Are Black Women Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women?” The mag claims that there are marked race differences in physical attractiveness among women, but not among men. Why? The article is based on a study conducted in which several people were interviewed and […]
In an interview with Matt Lauer on The Today Show, former President George W. Bush claimed that Kanye West’s statement that “George Bush doesn’t care about Black people” at the Concert For Hurricane Relief in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina, was the lowest point of his presidency. Bush: “Yeah. I still feel that way, As you […]
I am mystified by John Edgar Wideman’s account in The New York Times about how people on the Amtrak Acela train don’t take the seat next to him until it’s practically the only seat left. I am mystified not because I haven’t heard plenty of claims of this kind. I am mystified because nothing of […]
The debut episode of "The Giant Word," a new video series from Jay Smooth that analyzes the buzzwords that buzz around in the media, and figure out where they come from and what they really mean. This week we take a look at what politicans are really trying to say, when they tell us to be more "sensitive" to Tea Partiers, Islamophobes and other people who act like they've got no damn sense.
Critics praised last week’s 62nd Annual Emmy Awards for finally bringing some life to the generally stiff ceremony.
On August 11, Yahoo! Movies debuted the premier theatrical poster for the upcoming Julie Taymor film The Tempest, the latest reimagining of William Shakespeare. Taymor,…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina‘s Democratic Party has asked its own Senate nominee to withdraw after learning the man has been charged with a felony. But the candidate says he won’t budge.
Via: www.newsone.com // A student at Harvard Law School recently sent an email suggesting that Black Americans are genetically predisposed to inferior intelligence, and it’s been made public. The email first found its way into the hands of the Harvard’s Black Law Students Association, and was eventually forwarded to similar student groups at law schools […]
Via: www.newsone.com // From BVX.com: A white guy, disguised as a a black guy, managed to rip off four banks and a CVS in Ohio before he was caught. No, we’re not kidding. Maybe Conrad Zdzierak was inspired by “Soul Man (1986),” or even Robert Downey Jr.’s performance in “Tropic Thunder” (2008), but the 30-year-old, […]
