Although he’s not known for being a woke celebrity, Justin Bieber is at least a pretty charitable dude, having donated to the It Gets Better Project and the ACLU Of Southern California, among other organizations, throughout his career. And in one of the few public appearances he did make this year after canceling tour…
As reported by Deadline, AMC has started developing a drama series based on Wesley Lowery’s They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, And A New Era In America’s Racial Justice, which details how decades of institutional racism led to high-profile police brutality incidents and the rise of the Black Lives Matter…
It was just three years ago—on August 9, 2014—that Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed the unarmed Michael Brown, setting off widespread protests in suburban St. Louis and around the country. There are differing accounts of what happened that day and the reasons behind it, but to Ferguson’s…
Deadspin is calling this a “sports highlight,” and it is indeed an amazing feat of both athletic and activist strength. In just six seconds, Black Lives Matter activist Muhiyidin D’Baha attacks and grabs a giant Confederate flag, wrestling it away from its asshole racist owner.
Perhaps the best thing I can say about “Black Wherever I Go”—and this will sound so much more damning than I mean it to be—is that it’s not nearly as cringeworthy as I thought it would be. I was worried that Star would handle the Black Lives Matter movement, and the justifiable outrage of the African American…
Just two months after telling fans he felt “defeated,” Lil Wayne appears to have a more positive outlook on not just his life, but the state of race relations in the U.S. At least, that’s the sense we get from a recent Nightline interview with the New Orleans rapper, who seemed to both dismiss and be confounded by the…
Preferring to speak of “inclusion,” filmmaker Ava DuVernay cringes at the buzzword “diversity,” even though it’s a term that her friend and frequent producer, Oprah Winfrey, has used in the past when talking about the changing role of African-Americans within the entertainment industry. But has that controversial word…
For anyone other than Republicans (or members of whatever party just wants to sit idly by and watch the world burn), a trip to the Republican National Convention would either be an exercise in self-flagellation, or a great place to mine for comedy. Full Frontal With Samantha Bee went for the latter, of course,…
This post discusses plot points from “Ambush.”
It is one of the ugliest chapters of American history in the 20th century, one that may be difficult to fathom from a modern perspective. Two months after imperial Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized Executive Order 9066, calling for all those of Japanese…
Beyoncé delighted many people—Beyoncé fans, low rider fans, and Red Lobster fans among them—when she surreptitiously dropped the video for “Formation” back in January. However, the video, which is steeped in references to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, has not been without its detractors, some of whom have…
