It turns out that school dress code policies—which prohibit harmless black cultural signifiers and draw attention and shame to individual body parts—make school disproportionately difficult for black girls. Imagine that!
On today’s episode of America, Season 2018, we have the following Associated Press headline out of Pennsylvania: “Golf club apologizes for calling cops on black women members.” Oh?
In an episode very reminiscent of the recent Starbucks arrests, 25-year-old Chikesia Clemons is seen here being threatened and pushed to the ground by police officers in an Alabama Waffle House. After a minor alleged dispute with the cashier over being charged for plastic utensils, Clemons is seen seated by a window…
The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Syracuse University opted to suspend engineering fraternity Theta Tau after a student newspaper published footage of members conducting themselves in ways “that are extremely racist, ant-Semitic, homophobic, sexist and hostile to people with disabilities,” according to…
Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the fuckery committed regularly by certain elected representatives.
When two black men were arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks on Thursday for simply sitting there, being black and minding their business, people in the store who witnessed it were outraged, including Melissa DePino—whose video recording of the arrest went viral on social media.
Former Miranda, current “Miranda,” and hopeful New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon released a video Wednesday morning calling for the legalization of marijuana in her home state. If you expect her to say, “Legalize it, nerds,” before taking a giant bong rip and shotgunning it into Christine Marinoni’s…
The Simpsons, a series that has somehow endured beyond 1999, finally addressed comedian Hari Kondabolu’s criticism that Apu Nahasapeemapetilon perpetuates a stereotype that has haunted a generation of brown kids in America. The show’s creators, unsurprisingly, offered a bad response to critiques of a white man…
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Native American senior officials of the Interior Department were disproportionately reassigned under Interior Secretary Zinke, according to a review by Talking Points Memo. Less than 10 percent of the Interior’s employees are Native American, but made up nearly one third of the employees caught up in reassignment…
On September 3, 1944, 24-year-old Recy Taylor was walking home from a church revival in rural Alabama. That evening, she later reported, she was kidnapped at gunpoint and raped by six white teenage boys. According to court records, her attackers said they’d kill her if she talked. She talked anyway, which led to a…
The so-called “Canadian Rosa Parks” will be immortalized on Canadian currency in Canada’s attempt to apologize for being really fucking racist way back when.
For Women’s History Month, Jezebel and The Root are partnering for JezeRoot, a series that focuses on women of color, domestic workers, and sex workers.
Malcolm X told no lies when he said that the most disrespected person in America was the black woman. When it comes to dating, no one gets less love than black women because everyone is checking for the girl who looks black, but no one wants the girl who is actually black. Wednesday night’s episode of Freeform’s …
The media landscape is still very pale and very male, according to the Women’s Media Center. The nonprofit released a report called “The Status of Women of Color in the U.S. News Media 2018,” and it’s full of grim details, highlighting slim gains for women of color in largely white online-only media outlets, a…
The morning of March 2, the powers that be at Twitter robbed me of my intellectual property and community with little explanation and no avenue for redress.
White supremacist revisionist history has been leaping off the page in elementary schools across the country lately. Just in the last couple months (and this is only what’s been reported, mind you) a middle school teacher at a Florida public school was unmasked as a white nationalist podcast host, a private school in…
The Oscars are trying to be woke AF this year, and it almost feels sincere.
Two former Infowars employees have filed complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, citing discrimination and sexual harassment. They allege that Jones and senior managers created a hostile workplace, complete with bullying, racist jokes,…
Surprising no one except your MAGA hat-wearing uncle, most Americans don’t think Trump is particularly woke on the race front. According to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 57 percent of adults—“8 in 10 blacks, three-quarters of Hispanics and nearly half of whites”—believe…
