Remember that episode of Roseanne where Roseanne said something deeply racist on Twitter, faced a massive public outcry, and dealt with actual consequences for her behavior? Neither do we, but replace “that episode of Roseanne” with “the other night,” and suddenly—depressingly—it makes perfect sense. Such has been the…

As reported by TMZ, a house in Los Angeles owned by LeBron James was vandalized early this morning, with someone spray painting a racist message involving the n-word on his front gate. TMZ says the police have been asking neighbors for security footage that may show the racist asshole behind this, but it doesn’t sound…

Kal Penn may have had his breakout role in the stereotype-busting Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle, but like many actors of color, his early years were spent going out for every stereotypical role under the sun. Penn took to Twitter to share some of his early audition sides and scripts, and a pattern quickly began to…

The need for serious racial dialogue in America has been called for by presidents and protesters, pundits and people who reply to pundits with “#WhiteGenocide” hashtags alike. And as 2017 dawns, it seems that dialogue is at last ready to begin, thanks to the efforts of one Bob Ice Bo Bice. The former American Idol…

As Aziz Ansari recently explored in Master Of None, being an Indian actor means frequently getting called in for the most stereotypical roles imaginable. And now a new YouTube series is exploring that reality from the black perspective as well. Asked to share their craziest audition stories, Temesgen Tocruray and…

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…

Today, people know Chelsea Peretti from her stand-up and her role on Fox’s cop comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine, not to mention her Booking.com commercials with hubby Jordan Peele. And people know her older brother, Jonah, for having founded BuzzFeed, that eternal source of lists, quizzes, and adorable cat videos. But back…

Many Twitter users who are not straight white men have received some sort of harassment in the form of an aggressive @-reply. Activists tweeting about #BlackLivesMatter wind up with mentions clogged by racism and hate. Women receive rape and death threats for merely existing. Black women are attacked by hoards of…

The activist group Blackout For Human Rights has gathered together several prominent black actors, creators, and influencers for a video series called “My Life Matters.” The videos are focused on raising awareness about police brutality. The black creators discuss their personal and professional accomplishments before…

Mental health is increasingly becoming a mainstream topic of conversation, both on TV and in real life. But those conversations don’t necessarily extend to everyone equally. So The Huffington Post brought together four black women writers for a roundtable discussion about mental illness and race. The writers who…

Since self-mythologizing is a key part of Donald Trump’s brand, it is a near-certainty that the public will be hearing a few glowing anecdotes about the supposed greatness of the GOP candidate’s father, Fred, between now and November. But there is one chapter of this story that Trump is bound to skip right past, even…

Smashing the patriarchy is hard, but it’s a little easier when you have magic on your side. At least that’s the premise behind Bwitches, the charming new webseries from creators and stars Johanna Middleton and Martine Moore. Billed as a cross between Broad City and Bewitched, the series follows two twentysomething…

Last October, when Toronto Blue Jays player José Bautista dramatically flipped his bat after hitting a home run during a playoff game, it was the kind of gutsy, attention-grabbing move that professional baseball really needs more of in the new millennium. So why did Hall Of Famer Goose Gossage tell ESPN that Bautista…

There are numerous ways to talk about Hollywood’s embarrassing lack of diversity. One could, for instance, bombard readers with discouraging statistics about how few characters in film and television are anything other than white, straight, and male. There is certainly enough data for such a report. Writer Melena…

One of the more memorable moments in Aziz Ansari’s Master Of None was a montage of white actors who have donned brown face and a fake accent to play Indian characters. Now ScreenCrush is taking that idea one step further, documenting the long history of white actors who have played other races throughout cinema…

Now entering its fifth season, Showtime’s Homeland may well be influencing millions of American television viewers who prefer getting their political information from fictional cable dramas about terrorism rather than from actual journalists. If so, this is troubling, since in the words of Egyptian visual artist Heba…

The American Civil War ended 150 years ago, and while that date wouldn’t mark the midpoint of any timeline of American events, it feels like the great dividing line of the country’s history, the moment that separates past from present, old from new, slavery from freedom. It feels appropriate that the biggest work of…

2 Broke Girls just stood and and yelled, “Bingo!”, frustrating fellow racist bingo players Tom & Jerry, Academy Award voters, and American Sniper fans. The cause for their most recent five-in-a-row victory, each square of which is awarded when the show manages to offend a different racial group, stems from a recent…