January 2012
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Here’s What a Less Racist ‘Vanity Fair’ Hollywood...
via Colorlines.com/NOW
This should not come at a shock for anyone because Vanity Fair has moved actors and models of color to the sides of pages for decades but here it is anyway: the March “Hollywood Issue” cover put an all white cast of actresses on the cover and saved the two black actress featured for the back cover.
This is Vanity Fair’s 18th Hollywood Issue and...
December 2011
3 posts
Olympian Lee Evans Has a Brain Tumor and No Health...
Lee Evans broke records at the 1968 Summer Olympics but today he’s in a San Francisco hospital with a brain tumor and no health insurance.
Evans, 63, has a large tumor in the pituitary gland area of his brain, according to an email circulated to Olympians from the Mexico City Games.
It was 43 years ago that millions of people around the world saw two African-American men––Tommie Smith...
CLAIR HUXTABLE: STYLE ICON
Yes, it exist! There’s a Tumblr for all of Clair Huxtable’s best looks!
Visit CLAIR HUXTABLE: MOM STYLE ICON for more of Mrs. Huxtables’s best ready-to-wear best looks.
November 2011
3 posts
The Roots Play 'Lyin' Ass Bitch' To Intro Michele...
Hours before the show aired, Roots drummer Questlove told his Twitter followers to keep their ears pricked during Tuesday morning’s show.
“Aight late night walkon song devotees: you love it when we snark: this next one takes the cake. ask around cause i aint tweeting title,” he tweeted.
…and then Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann strode to the couch smiling...
A Bad Lip Reading from Herman Cain
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Turns Out That's a Jennifer Lopez Body Double in...
What, you thought Jennifer Lopez visited the hood from time to time?
In a commercial for the car company Fiat, Lopez is seen driving around New York City’s poorest borough, the Bronx, but it turns out she never left a Los Angeles sound stage for the commercial.
”This is my world. This place inspires me.” Lopez says in the commercial’s voiceover as she drives around the...
October 2011
3 posts
A Much (Darker) Snooki on Jimmy Kimmel Says she's...
Snooki is making up for all the skin lightening in the beauty and entertainment industry. She was on Jimmy Kimmel last night and she’s totally 57 shades darker.
Also, she had no idea who J.K. Rowling and Maya Angelous are.
“I don’t know who that is,” she said.
Check out Colorlines.com’s more recent coverage on skin lightening.
-JR
On the campaign trail with Mitt Romney. And Bad...
Now if only they can make one of these starring Herman Cain. Stuff the ice chest!
Beyoncé's 'Countdown' Pays Homage to Black Model...
On Thursday night, Beyoncé premiered her eagerly anticipated “Countdown” video. In the new fan favorite, the pop diva does a bit of time travel back to the sixties.
Most people will recognize the video’s references to Audrey Hepburn in “Funny Face” and the monochromatic scenes from Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.” But there’s a...
September 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
22 posts
Miriam Zoila Perez: Teen Moms Look for Support,... →
ladyjournos:
Teen pregnancy prevention initiatives are often based on the premise that teen parenting is an indisputably bad thing and should be avoided at all costs. And as a consequence, teen moms are constantly presented as failures and victims.
Colorlines || May 6, 2011
Endlessly pleased to see Miriam’s excellent feature for us getting some love from Lady Journos.
WatchWe managed to avoid writing about this stupid, stupid story all week. Ta-Nehisi destroys the issue here, and here’s the horrific shredded fabric of America that remains — I mean, here’s Common’s poetry reading.
Post-9/11 All Over Again: The Hate-Mongers Who... →
nehrujackets:
alternet-culture:
On 9/11/01, Himanshu Suri, writer and member of the rap group Das Racist, watched the Twin Towers fall from the window of his lower Manhattan high school. On 5/2/11, he began retweeting the most racist and offensive hate-mongering on Twitter surrounding the bin Laden killing. In this piece, he reflects on the anti-Muslim, anti-Middle Eastern, anti-South Asian...
“What I like about this whole scare regime is the circular logic of why all the...”
– Commenter BrianSierk, over at Ta-Nehisi’s blog. Beautifully stated.
I Feel Like A Black Republican - Ta-Nehisi Coates - National - The Atlantic
“If we feel deeply, and we encourage ourselves and others to feel deeply, we will...”
– Audre Lorde (via theredtree)
“When you draw a cartoon about your mayor, and you’re the only cartoonist who is...”
– Little Stories, Big Ideas. Susie Cagle for Cartoon Movement (via graphicladies)
April 2011
22 posts
“The one radical thing about Barack Obama is his race, his name. Of course, there...”
– David Remnick over at the New Yorker
“Some may blackly (angrily) accuse me of trying to blacken (defame) the English...”
– Robert B. Moore, “Racist Stereotyping in the English Language” (via supporterleschenilles)
““The back-and-forth culminated when Hannity told Ellison: ‘You seem...”
– via Talking Points Memo
