For iPhone; Ever heard of Connor Smallnut? If you haven’t, get ready. Connor Smallnut is Nick Cannon- Nick Cannon dressed in white face, a plaid…
The Guardian columnist Orville Lloyd Douglas reveals in his latest piece that he hates being a Black man and that his skin color is his “personal…
This year’s TV season has a number of throwback moments – from Queen Latifah and Arsenio Hall returning to host talk shows to Michael J.…
Roland Martin talks with Eric Deggans of the Tampa Bay Times about the media’s discussion on race and how it’s a difficult conversation to have.
Race is at the center of a national re-assessment in politics and our legal system. Republicans are asking how they appeal to a browner…
As of this morning, some 500 potential jurors will be grilled about their positions on race, guns, and the media as prosecutors and George Zimmerman’s defense attorneys work to whittle the mass of jurors down to the six and four alternates who could decide Zimmerman’s fate. But it’s the demographic look of the six jurors […]
General Mill’s interracial Cheerios ad may have attracted some racist scorn online, but audience testing by analytics company Ace Metrix shows the 30-second spot achieved high “attention” and “likability” scores, especially with females. The ad didn’t appeal to males 50+, but Jonathan Symonds, Ace Metrix executive vice president of marketing, wrote in a blog post […]
I know who my colleagues think I am. I’m pretty sure they’ve accepted me as the lightest Black dude in the office. My job demands…
1. By Any Means Necessary 2. Ballot or the Bullet 3. House Negro Vs. The Field Negro 4. Speech on Police Brutality 5. Speech at Oxford University
(CAMBRIDGE-Scientific Computing) Years after slavery and Jim Crow laws, people of African and European heritage still consider themselves to be Black, according to a recent study. The centuries-old “one-drop rule” assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorization of people like Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, and Halle […]
VIA: NEWSONE.COM In passages leaked from her forthcoming book America by Heart, Sarah Palin — the erstwhile quitter governor of Alaska, who now, by all indications, fancies herself as President of the United States — has taken another cheap shot at First Lady Michelle Obama. In a passage on perceptions of racial inequality in the […]
Almost seven months have passed since the devastating earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, 2010. The destruction was massive; the financial costs are estimated at US$8-11 billion. In my work I receive daily reports from people who are either in Haiti working on the recovery effort or who have just returned from consultations, assessments, and […]
