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Kanye West’s latest video for his single “Bound 2” is questionable. Some think it’s creative, while others find it to be trashy. Kim Kardashian’s appearance, along with the Clydesdale horses definitely make it easy to laugh at. Naturally, parodies would make their debut. The most talked about parody is that of James Franco and Seth […]

By Rashad J. Smith The 1991 Superbowl rendition of the Star Spangled Banner sung by the late Whitney Houston had the entire Nation in an uproar. Either you loved and supported the performance or you despised it because the infamous accusation turned fact that Ms. Houston pre-recorded the audio. While the controversy couldn’t be ignored, neither […]

by Cosima Smith  By now many of you will have heard the term “Digital Blackface” a term defined loosely as the movement or expansion of Blackface minstrelsy to the new-age digital platforms we frequent.  The “tradition” of minstrelsy dates back to the early 19th century and began as a form of entertainment at the expense of […]

You know what never goes out of style on college campuses? Kegs? Yes. But also: blackface. Last week, news broke that members of the UC Irvine outfit of Lambda Theta Dlta corked it up for a music video. Here we go again. Why is blackface such an enduring form of racism?

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg-zTiHSYMM Over the past month I have been writing on the good and bad of “The Ballroom Scene.” Now I want to take a moment to explain more about the rising underground dance, that is becoming one of the new “black arts.”  If homophobic, masculine idolizing, intolerant schools like Morehouse would be a little more […]

Neo-soul icon Erykah Badu was pulled over on New Year’s Eve by the Dallas Police Department. As the officer approached her window, Badu asked the reason for the stop. That’s when it got weird. The officer didn’t name a traffic violation such as a broken taillight, suspicion of intoxication or anything else, she says. The […]

By Tariq Luthun This week, the story of Ziad Ahmed–a Muslim-American teen who was accepted into Stanford after writing #BlackLivesMatter in his application–went viral. Since the story dropped, many have come out in praise of the young man for his seemingly bold decision to write the politicized phrase on such an important application not just […]

Lupita Nyong’o continues to establish herself as a style icon at the frontier of fashion here on earth and, more recently, galaxies far, far away.

Johannes Mehserle, the transit officer who shot and killed Oscar Grant in 2009, will not have to pay damages to Grant’s father. Mehersle had been convicted of manslaughter in 2010 and was released in 2011. The lawsuit was brought by Oscar Grant’s father, Oscar Grant, Jr. The Bay Area Transit Authority (BART) had previously settled […]

 When a hateful flyer against immigration surfaced in a Brampton, Canada high school, students came up with an epic response. A group called Immigration Watch passed out the offensive flyers around Brampton earlier this year. The flyer shows two images: one of an all-white crowd with the caption “From This…” and another of a group […]

    Singer, songwriter/producer Pharrell has had an amazing year. But tempers flared when the star released the cover for his new album, GIRL, and the flames have been reignited after comments about “The New Black” during an interview with Oprah made by the musician. 

  Magic Johnson has responded to remarks made by Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. In a bizarre interview with Anderson Cooper that aired Monday, Sterling questioned Johnson’s character, as well as his contributions to the African American community.  During an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Johnson made the following statement: