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You probably don’t need us to tell you this, but it’s been one of those weeks on This Floating Garbage Barge Earth, the…
Donald Trump calls Spike Lee's Oscar speech a "racist hit on your President"
Spike Lee’s first competitive Oscar win—BlacKkKlansman took home the Best Adapted Screenplay trophy—brought with it a…
NBC pulls racist Trump ad, perhaps after watching it on its own network
Because it’s a day of the week ending in “-day,” there’s once more exhausting news about something terrible related to…
Drugmaker to Roseanne after she blames tweet on pills: "Racism is not a known side effect"
Remember that episode of Roseanne where Roseanne said something deeply racist on Twitter, faced a massive public…
Facebook shuts down anti-Semitic advertising categories
As revealed in a big piece from ProPublica, Facebook’s advertising systems used to make it very easy to target white…
PewDiePie did something racist again, indie developer decides to cut him off
About six months after getting in trouble for anti-Semitic “jokes” and pro-Hitler comments that were apparently totally…
Racist asshole vandalizes LeBron James’ house
As reported by TMZ, a house in Los Angeles owned by LeBron James was vandalized early this morning, with someone spray…
Kal Penn shares the insanely stereotypical audition scripts from his early career
Kal Penn may have had his breakout role in the stereotype-busting Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle, but like many…
Racial dialogue opened after American Idol’s Bo Bice is called “white boy” at Popeye’s
The need for serious racial dialogue in America has been called for by presidents and protesters, pundits and people…
Black actors share their disheartening audition stories
As Aziz Ansari recently explored in Master Of None, being an Indian actor means frequently getting called in for the…
Read This: Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay talk Black Lives Matter
Preferring to speak of “inclusion,” filmmaker Ava DuVernay cringes at the buzzword “diversity,” even though it’s a term…
Read This: In 2002, Black People Love Us artfully spoofed racial cluelessness
Today, people know Chelsea Peretti from her stand-up and her role on Fox’s cop comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine, not to…
Read This: Twitter has been failing its users for a decade by enabling harassment
Many Twitter users who are not straight white men have received some sort of harassment in the form of an aggressive…
Ryan Coogler, Ava DuVernay, and other black artists state “My Life Matters”
The activist group Blackout For Human Rights has gathered together several prominent black actors, creators, and…
Read This: Donald Trump’s dad was Woody Guthrie’s racist landlord
Since self-mythologizing is a key part of Donald Trump’s brand, it is a near-certainty that the public will be hearing…
New webseries Bwitches combines feminist comedy with witchcraft
Smashing the patriarchy is hard, but it’s a little easier when you have magic on your side. At least that’s the premise…
Read This: How baseball is whitewashing itself right into irrelevance
Last October, when Toronto Blue Jays player José Bautista dramatically flipped his bat after hitting a home run during…
Read This: Hollywood insiders share their stories of the industry’s racism, sexism
There are numerous ways to talk about Hollywood’s embarrassing lack of diversity. One could, for instance, bombard…
Here’s a depressing montage of white actors in non-white roles
One of the more memorable moments in Aziz Ansari’s Master Of None was a montage of white actors who have donned brown…