In Mississippi, Governor Phil Bryant has declared April as Confederate Heritage Month, and the last Monday in April as Confederate Heritage Day. Unfortunately, this is not an April Fool’s joke.
A pair of Illinois Republicans have co-sponsored a bill that would refuse to issue a birth certificate to any newborn child whose father is not listed. Hello and welcome to the year 1903!
The Black Lives Matter movement has shed light on the racial profiling, police brutality, and racial inequality experienced by the African-American community across America. But apparently some of the employees at Facebook’s notoriously white, bro-centric Menlo Park, California office don’t agree.
Last week, Jezebel wrote about how a large percentage of South Carolinians who voted for sunken, corroding soufflé Donald Trump supported banning Muslims and/or homosexuals from entering the United States. Chill. What we didn’t write (but still think you should be aware of) is that a bunch of his
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On Wednesday night, MAC Cosmetics posted an image of a very beautiful woman’s mouth wearing “Matte Royal” lip color at New York Fashion Week. Some racists decided to stop by and make a nice thing into a very not nice thing.
CNN Politics decided to put Trump’s proposed border-long monument to xenophobia to the test by asking a group civil engineers exactly what would go into the project and how much time/energy/bombast it would take. Unsurprisingly, the wall Mexico should just be super chill about paying for turned out to be what many…
The traveling cavalcade of bullshit known as primary season moved to South Carolina this week, where Trump voters continue to come up with new reasons for the rest of us to say we’re Canadian when traveling abroad. This time: a new poll shows that 31% of them would back a ban on homosexuals entering the United States.
In an open letter released on Thursday addressed to Latino voters, celebrities including America Ferrera, Zoe Saldana, and Aubrey Plaza decried the discriminatory policies paraded around by the GOP candidates in this year’s election cycle.
Following the Hollywood diversity conversation could, at this point, be a full-time job. For Paris Barclay, the head of the Directors Guild of America, it already kind of is—and he’s really tired of the lack of action.
It’s heartening that Spike Lee, Jada Pinkett Smith, and, as of this morning, her husband Will Smith have publicly denounced the Academy Awards, declaring that they will not be attending this year’s ceremony. The Oscars, though seen as a pinnacle of artistic achievement, really amount to cherries on top of a bowl of…
Last night, a friend of Sam Smith’s was “verbally abused racially in London.” In a series of tweets about the incident, Smith shared that he was “deeply shocked” and “so upset” by what he saw, adding that he “never ever ever thought” that kind of abuse could happen in his home country. (You know, where This Is England…
Last July, Samuel DuBose was fatally shot by a white University of Cincinnati police officer during a routine traffic stop. DuBose was unarmed and, according to evidence from a body camera, did not behave aggressively or threaten anyone’s safety. The now-former officer, Ray Tensing, awaits trial for murder, and the…
On Monday, actor Idris Elba will make his way to Westminster to address Parliament regarding the egregious lack of diversity on British television.
During Thursday evening’s Republican debate, Ted Cruz doubled-down on his condemnation of Play-Doh factory explosion Donald Trump’s so-called “New York values.” Babe, just say what you mean: Jewish, black, gay values.
Katrina Pierson is an impressive figure, if only for her ability to out-batshit her employer, Donald Trump. She serves as a campaign spokesperson and talking head, frequently appearing on cable news to offer summaries of Trump’s, discriminatory policy proposals and his general hardline xenophobia and bigotry—which…
Maine Governor Paul LePage attempts to explain his very obviously racist remarks about the state’s heroin problem, does a great job:
Heroin use has exploded across the American northeast, and, according to Governor Paul LePage of Maine, men with names like “D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty” are to blame.
The White Devil is alive and kicking, and today he has taken the form of a dimwitted Hungarian woman who thought it prudent to plaster herself in seven different kinds of blackface.
The thing about Jeb! is that his tragic, whingeing presidential campaign has caused us to partially forget what a horrible human being he actually is. Lately, we have started to regard him much in the same way we would regard a man in a Nickelback t-shirt crying softly behind us in line at Subway—he’s a bummer, in a…
