We all knew that Donald Sterling was a racist and an overall horrible human being. So TMZ's lurid audio of the Los Angeles Clippers owner enraged about his girlfriend taking photos with black people shouldn't really surprise you if you've been paying any attention. And yet, the audio is shocking—maybe because it's… » 4/26/14 4:23pm 4/26/14 4:23pm

Last night, distasteful orange ghoul Perez Hilton took a break from grinding up other human beings and turning them into money to declare on his Twitter feed that "Inside every gay man is a fierce black woman!" » 2/25/14 8:00pm 2/25/14 8:00pm

Yesterday on Tumblr, Carefree Black Girl posted the image seen above: A 12 Years A Slave poster with Brad Pitt as the dominant feature. Sigh. » 12/23/13 12:55pm 12/23/13 12:55pm

Last night's episode of The Mindy Project addressed race, and specifically mentioned a topic we discussed right here on this site in May. » 11/20/13 1:00pm 11/20/13 1:00pm

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! » 10/21/13 4:30pm 10/21/13 4:30pm

After declaring that they wouldn't reshoot any scenes from their new show Dads, Fox has now decided to embrace the fact that their pilot has been deemed by critics as "offensive" "reprehensible" and "morally wrong" by featuring those reviews prominently in their ad campaigns. Just like MTV did with their remake of … » 9/12/13 5:40pm 9/12/13 5:40pm

The show is months from even airing, and already, FOX's Dads is looking to be the most offensive show of the fall television season. At a Television Critics Association panel Thursday, the creators and stars of the show attempted to support its most racist jokes – which include Brenda Song's character being told to… » 8/02/13 12:20pm 8/02/13 12:20pm

With the news that William Fichtner will play Shredder, that rounds out an almost entirely white cast in the Michael Bay-produced, Jonathan Liebesman-directed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Perhaps the most offensive casting is the awesomely impossible-to-kill Shredder, whose alter ego is Oroku Saki, and has always… » 6/24/13 10:30pm 6/24/13 10:30pm

Some Americans are going out of their way to patronize Paula Deen's restaurant The Lady and Sons in Savannah, Georgia to support Deen in this difficult, deep-fried-racist time — some of whom even plan to boycot the Food Network for dropping her in the wake of the controversy. If you were curious, "Most of [these]… » 6/23/13 8:30pm 6/23/13 8:30pm

Joined by parents Janet and Christopher, six-year old Grace Colbert hammed her way through an interview with MSNBC Tuesday morning, proving that the whole Internet can be freaking out about the fact that you're biracial, but if you're a child actor you think all the hubbub is just because you have such a "great smile." » 6/11/13 5:40pm 6/11/13 5:40pm

Much like the modeling industry, the porn industry deals with surface, exteriors, looks, bodies. And, as it turns out, like modeling, porn is full of racial inequities. » 4/05/13 4:30pm 4/05/13 4:30pm

Bad news for enthusiasts of offensive retro trinkets: Anthropologie has pulled that $400 racist candlestick and apologized. » 1/11/13 2:20pm 1/11/13 2:20pm

Just. What? How did? I don't. » 1/10/13 10:00pm 1/10/13 10:00pm

Bruce Reyes Chow, a father of three daughters, sat down to watch the United States Women's National Soccer Team play North Korea yesterday. In a piece on Huffington Post, he writes: "Watching the USWNT play over the past few years has been one of the most powerful and important things my daughters have experienced…… » 8/02/12 2:20pm 8/02/12 2:20pm