by Racialicious special correspondent Latoya Peterson
Oh, hell no.
I am staring at the editor’s page of the April 2007 issue of Details magazine. Staring up at me from the page are seven black men in various stages of undress, and one white woman, in the process of being groped, her face hidden from view.
The editor starts […]

by Racialicious special correspondent Latoya Peterson
Somewhere in the course of growing up, I learned that Disney was the devil. It wasn’t always that way. I gave the same rapt attention to Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, Cinderella, Aladdin, and the Rescuers as did any other child growing up.
Hell, I think I had “The Work […]

Mel Gibson Goes Ballistic — “Lady, F**k Off!”
Thx Tereza! “Mel Gibson exploded in anger last night on a college campus after an expert on Mayan culture accussed him of racially stereotyping the Mayans in the movie “Apocalypto.””
(tags: racism celebrities indigenous movies)

Meet the Mandingos - Details Blog
Thx Latoya! “Within an hour or so, the guests—23 white […]

Ms Dynamite and the Maroons - BBC NEWS
“Niomi Daley, the British hip-hop star better known as Ms Dynamite, travelled to her ancestral land Jamaica to make a documentary about slaves who fought back, as part of the BBC’s season marking Britain’s abolition of the slave trade.”
(tags: slavery caribbean history)

Give us racial harmony - Newsday.com
Thx aaronkorea! […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
If you follow geek news at all, you’ll probably have heard by now of Twitter.
What is it? Well, depends whom you ask.
Mitch Joel calls it permission-based stalking. Rafe Needleman describes it like this: “Twitter is an online service that enables you to broadcast short messages to your friends or “followers.” It also […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Ugh… Here we go again.
OMG! A “white” couple gives birth to a “black” baby! Quick! Get a DNA test! Find a lawyer! From The New York Post:
A Park Avenue fertility clinic’s blunder has left a family devastated - after a black baby was born to a Hispanic woman and her white husband, […]

by guest contributor HighJive, originally published at MultiCultClassics

This anti-smoking ad targets Asian Americans. Looks like the California Smokers’ Hotline couldn’t afford an endorsement from Jackie Chan or Jet Li.

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
This parody of Angelina Jolie’s pathological obsession with international/transracial adoption is hilarious! (Thanks to nsekuye for the tip!)

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‘Emmett Till’ poet protests teachers’ firing - Los Angeles Times
Thx HighJive! “The award-winning author of “A Wreath for Emmett Till”…said Wednesday it was “unconscionable” that a planned presentation of the work by students at a Los Angeles charter school sparked the firing of two teachers.”
(tags: africanamerican black history)

Filipina activist Buell writes family history to understand […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
It’s always fascinating to see what people are searching for when they stumble across Racialicious. Here are some of the more interesting search terms from yesterday.

horny OR Lecherous OR drinking OR problems OR fallen OR alcoholic “Cornel West”
comedian monique leg pictures
how does queen latifah straightens her hair
any rich person […]

by guest contributor Michael Miraflor, originally published at Hip Hop and Advertising
There is no debate — hip hop and urban magazines (irregardless of whatever state of decline one may argue they are collectively in) have the best ads and the best advertisers. There is so much more that can be captured and conveyed in a […]

The legacy of slavery - BBC NEWS | UK
“This is one of the most challenging arguments of the legacy debate: how much can the racism of the past be blamed for the racism, culture or inequalities of today?”
(tags: history slavery racism)

“West 32nd” Will Debut at Tribeca Film Festival
Thx Angry Asian Man! Congrats to Michael Kang! […]

Not Just Fetishists and Race Traitors:
Challenging the Ways We Look At Interracial Relationships
Date: Saturday, March 31, 2007
Time: 5:00 p.m. Eastern time / 2:00 p.m. Pacific time
Length: 60 minutes
Fee: $19.99 for either the live teleseminar or recording
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Even after John and Yoko, and Heidi and Seal, interracial relationships are still considered taboo. Society’s discomfort is […]

by Racialicious special correspondent Latoya Peterson
I remember when I was the only kid in my junior high school rocking Karl Kani sneakers. In a sea of Fila, Nike, and Adidas, my puffy white sneakers were often met with curious stares - without a recognizable label, people were at a loss as to my social status. […]

Not the lesson they intended - Los Angeles Times
Thx HighJive! Two teachers are fired for signing a letter of protest written by students who were forbidden by the school from reciting a poem about Emmett Till during a Black History Month program because it was seen as not celebratory enough.
(tags: africanamerican black history)

Ghetto mentality no […]