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5 Hot New (Old) Racial Stereotypes
After Obama's election, our national conversation on race opened up and flourished. I'm lying! The same crap kept happening as has always happened.In the first 100 days of the Obama administration, our...
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Web-Based Social Justice: Talking With The Woman Behind Popular Internet Meme...
Vegan feminist Diana Lopez found a smart, funny, wildly popular way to use the internet for positive change... all in the form of a .jpg. Naturally, it made some people mad.You’ve probably heard the...
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Marvel Overcomes Its Fear of a Black Spider-Man. Will White Fans Follow?
Big moves! The new Ultimate Spider-Man is a half-African American half-Latino kid named Miles Morales. So why are some comics folks upset?Today’s a big day, both for comic-book nerds and for...
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‘Yo, Is This Racist?’ Andrew Ti’s Tumblr Has Your (Hilarious) Answer
Finding the humor in the horrific. “I am by no means any kind of authority on anything.”For an authority figure, Andrew Ti has an unorthodox personal statement. And he stands by it, too, regularly...
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"I am by no means any kind of authority on anything."For an authority figure, Andrew Ti has an unorthodox personal statement. And he stands by it, too, regularly reminding his readers that the only...
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Why is Hollywood So Afraid of Black Women?
"The Help" is building Oscar buzz despite historical mistruths -- while white/male Oscar contenders derail serious conversation about structural racism in Hollywood. It’s Oscar season! Actually, the...
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Watch: Activists Drop Off 70,000 Signatures Telling the New York Times to...
It’s time for the Times to wise up. On Tuesday April 23rd 2013, on the eve of renewed debate around US immigration policy, the Applied Research Center and the Drop the I-Word campaign led a coalition...
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