Riccardo Tisci has premiered a sneak preview of his spring 2014 campaign, and everyone on the Internet is very pleased (or they should be! ARE YOU NOT PLEASED?) because it will feature the amazing and talented Erykah Badu— and Maria Borges, Riley, and Asia Chow, all of whom are models of color.
In this month's
issue of Glamour, Rashida Jones
After allegedly being told that she would have to leave her school unless she cut her hair, 12-year-old Vanessa VanDyke
Last week, Politico writer Michelle Cottle (intentionally?) created a bit of a shitstorm with her ridiculous article "Leaning Out: How Michelle Obama Became a Feminist Nightmare," in which she dismissed the First Lady's efforts and campaigns during her husband's time in office as "soothingly domestic causes" that somehow…
Craig Paul Cobb — a terrifying and delusional neo-Nazi whom some of you may know from his despicable attempt to set up a white supremacist city
New research into In Vitro Fertilization success rates has revealed a curious trend: white ladies are more likely to successfully become pregnant as a result of the procedure than women of other ethnic backgrounds, and scientists say they can't figure out why. It's a white mystery, not unlike that confusing flavor of…
As an early Christmas present this year, 19-year-old Keisha Austin got a legal name change. According to Jeneé Osterheldt of the Kansas City Star, this is because her classmates and teachers had made jokes and comments about her name — which they associated with " video vixens, neck-rolling and Maury Povich tabloid…
On Monday we learned about that the women of Brooklyn are going to die alone
Well, they did it. Saturday Night Live finally addressed "The Issue" that everyone has been talking about. Sort of...
Throughout all of the recent controversy about Saturday Night Live's consistent failure to add a black actress to their cast, Lorne Michaels (the show's top executive and specter of Studio 8H) has remained silent — until Thursday, that is, when the issue was brought up during an interview with the Associated Press.
American Apparel is a great place to go if you want at least one person in false glasses to stare at you while you nervously rifle through some sheer bloomers. American Apparel is not a great place to go if you enjoy respecting and honoring other cultural traditions. Case in point: the retailer has recently…
New research has indicated that HPV vaccines do not carry the strains of the disease that most affect black women, citing a lack of diversity in clinical trials of the vaccine. HPV, one of the most common sexually transmitted infections, has about 100 different strains, 40 of which are spread by sexual contact. The…
For the first time in its history, San Jose State University, California’s oldest state university, has a black homecoming queen AND king: seniors Daniel Harris-Lucas, 23, and Diana Busaka, 22, who received their crowns and sashes this Thursday.
Child beauty pageants are fucked up enough without adding a weird racial dimension to them, but if you're going to be terrible, you might as well be all-the-way terrible, right? The Little Miss Hispanic Delaware pageant — which exists because apparently the world doesn't mess with little girls' brains enough as-is —…
Last week, Greek police, searching a Roma family's home during an unrelated criminal investigation, came across a pale, tow-headed little girl among the family's gaggle of dark-haired, dark-skinned children. Immediately, they were like, "HOW DID THIS GET HERE," and swept the girl up into protective custody. DNA tests…
A young white Australian woman turned 21 and decided to have an "African" themed birthday party. After the festivities, she posted photos to Facebook. Ignorance, insensitivity and racism ahoy!
Saturday Night Live has a huge diversity problem. Specifically, it has a huge diversity problem when it comes to hiring female performers of color (though its track record for hiring non-white men isn't exactly stellar, either). This isn't breaking news. The show is constantly called out for it's overwhelming whiteness …
Not too early to start thinking about your racist Halloween costume.
A must-read: "The Changing Face of America," by Lise Funderburg, with images by Martin Schoeller.
Miley Cyrus is topless on her first-ever cover of Rolling Stone, and inside, she admits that she's bothered by her MTV performance being labeled racist — and she has some words for people who believe her "ratchet" ways are nothing more than cultural appropriation.
Tonight’s Emmy Awards will mark a pivotal moment in TV history, and not just because Neil Patrick Harris plans on just skipping the award ceremony entirely and putting on a one-man tap show. Netflix’s House of Cards will be the first strictly-internet show competing for the best drama Emmy, but, more importantly, if…
The sonorous Irish comedian Ardal O’Hanlon once did a bit in which, and I’m paraphrasing (but I could have just as easily ripped this off because the internet is Thunderdome, so YOU’RE WELCOME), he explained very soberly that the words “fun” and run” should never be used next to each other in a sentence because running …
Girls has attracted a lot of criticism for the overwhelming whiteness
Deborah Brown Community School, the charter school in Tulsa, Oklahoma that recently came under fire for sending home 7-year-0ld Tiana Parker on the grounds that she violated appearance guidelines by having dreadlocks, has decided — following a two hour school board meeting — to officially change their policy.
How timely! Just after George Zimmerman was taken into custody
Last week, news broke that Tiana Parker, an adorable 7-year-old girl from Tulsa, Oklahoma, had been sent home
On Twitter, Tyra Banks previewed some images from her upcoming exhibition Tyra Banks Presents: 15, in which she transforms into "iconic images of her colleagues, competitors, and friends." In the three images she posted, she's emulating Cara Delevigne, Kate Moss, and Cindy Crawford. Because this is the Internet,…
