by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson
[Warning: Long post. You might want to grab a snack…]
BET has been dead to me for a while now.
I would have to say I stopped watching BET in high school. With the occasional channel flick to check out music videos, nothing on BET interested me. Not 106 and Park, […]

83% - Approve Interracial Dating - Yahoo! News
h/t Stereohyped. “More than eight-in-ten Americans (83%) now agree that “it’s all right for blacks and whites to date,” reflecting the most dramatic change among the racial attitudes tested in Pew polls”
(tags: interracialrelationships race)

Devaluing Life: Pfizer Charged for Human Testing - The Coup Magazine
“The researchers…had full knowledge that […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 70) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
Carmen and Sylvia discuss how race, gender and feminism are intersecting in some of the recent media coverage about Michelle Obama, wife of presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Guest co-host Sylvia […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Wow. Not only did this make it to CollegeHumor.com, but it has been rated a “National Pick,” which presumably means a lot of people like this video.
They titled it “What? She said sparkling wiggles. What did you think she said?”
This guy should win an Anti-Racist Parent of the Year award. Not. (Hat […]

Staying alive: the women who are immune to Aids - The Observer
Thx Liam. “The women’s likelihood of being infected with HIV/Aids was related to the length of time they had been doing sex work: the longer a woman had been selling sex in Majengo, the less likely she was to be infected.”
(tags: hiv african healthcare)

Sheffield […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Tereza’s wonderful blog, White Anti-Racist Parent, is hosting the June issue of Erase Racism Carnival.
The Erase Racism Carnival is a collection of blog posts dedicated to creating a world free of racism. The Carnival is published around the 20th of every month.
You can check out the current issue, hosted by Angry Black […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Racialicious reader Krys tipped me off to this web site, which includes some videos that bring the Homies dolls to life in the crudest racial stereotypes you can think of.
What is up with these dolls? According to Wikipedia, “Homies are a series of 2-inch figurines loosely based upon Chicano (Mexican American) characters […]

Two of a Kind — Yahoo! Personals
Thx Karen. “Growing up, I always assumed that I lacked the gene that made Indians of the opposite sex appealing to me. They seemed immature, unexciting, and too close to home to be attractive. It was hard to understand how I could be connected to my cultu
(tags: interracialrelationships)

FrockStar: Amy […]

AND THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN - The Urbanite Magazine
Thx Liam. “I couldn’t visualize the scale of the devastation, because somehow, even after the announcement and the evacuations and the bollards on the sidewalks, I wasn’t fully convinced it was possible to destroy an entire neighborhood.”
(tags: gentrification crime)

Is Your Kid a Racist? - ABC News
Thx […]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson
The most provocative ideas seem to fly out of nowhere.
I was listening the community discussion of Jabari Asim’s new book The N-Word: Who Should Say It, Who Shouldn’t, and Why and I was enjoying the depth of conversation explored by the attendees. One woman, when recounting her experiences made an […]

by Racialicious guest contributor Luke Lee
“Who’s doggy’s daddy? A DNA test can determine the breeds that make your mutt”
Making its way to the very front page of Yahoo! on Monday night was a video and a news article about a DNA kit which, as the folks at Yahoo! so eloquently put it, is able to […]

Are Asian Males Unwilling Targets of Virginia Tech Fallout? - NAM
Hat tip to AAM. “If you’re an Asian American male of high school or college age you might be feeling a bit uneasy these days. And with good reason. In the past few weeks there’s been a slew of media reports involving young AA males, […]