by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I’m glad the bad-ass ladies at What About Our Daughters? are speaking out about this. I watched this segment on CNN early this morning too but was not quite awake enough to trust my reaction to the piece. Glad I wasn’t the only one thinking, WTF?
This Week’s Wagging Finger of Shame Award [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
As many of you have probably heard, the Writers Guild of America has been on strike. As part of their campaign, they have put together a series of online videos feature A-list actors. Check out this one, starring Holly Hunter.
I’m left scratching my head, wondering what the heck this issue has [...]

by guest contributor Harry Allen, Hip-Hop Activist & Media Assassin
This is almost too easy, but if you’ve not yet picked up or flipped through December 2007’s self-proclaimed “special collector’s edition” of EBONY, get a gander at:
- Michael Jackson on the cover…and way too much inside (”25 Years After Thriller“), glowing, translucently; with an almost inner [...]

Bringing New Meaning To “City Of Brotherly Love” – Stereohyped
LOL “I do stand behind and agree with the argument that “black leaders” would better serve the community by helping to combat black-on-black crime instead of burying the n-word and going to lunch with Bill O’Reilly.”
(tags: racism crime)

Not Oprah’s Book Club: Getting Off – Feministing
Interesting post [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Did anyone catch Nip/Tuck this week?
I was amused to find that the episode included a faithful reproduction of the “Mandingo party” that was the topic of a much-discussed Details magazine article in April 2007. I swear, they even recreated this exact photo, with two actors who looked exactly like this black man [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
This is not so much a new episode as a special announcement that Addicted to Race is going on hiatus for awhile. We’ve been “on the air” pretty much continuously for about two and a half years.
Don’t worry, this is [...]

by guest contributor Luke Lee
Ugh. Who would’ve thought that a conversation about pheromones and guys from Eastern Europe would’ve led to talking about Mendel, evolutionary biology in terms of “interracial mixing” and accountants dating accountants. Such was the case on Episode 57 of Dan Savage’s Savage Love Podcast (“Lovecast” as it is officially called).
Dan Savage, [...]

To Muslim Girls, Scouts Offer a Chance to Fit In – New York Times
““When you say you are a girl scout, they say, ‘Oh, my daughter is a girl scout, too,’ and then they don’t think of you as a person from another planet,” said Asma”
(tags: muslim religion prejudice)

In French Suburbs, Same Rage, but New [...]

by Racialicious guest contributor David Zhou
As Volume Two of the Heroes saga nears its end, the plot lines come together and the series develops a climactic peak. But at the same time, gone are the opportunities for the writers to tell backstory, and while this is good for simply the quality of each episode, it [...]

by guest contributor AverageBro, originally published at AverageBro.com
Well, here we go again. Every 3-4 months, the mainstream media tries to focus on a topic of interest to black people, and as opposed to objective coverage, they resort to flipping to page 94 in The Book of Manufactured Controversy.
This phenomenon is something I’ve blogged about in [...]

by guest contributor Laura Martinez, originally published at mi blog es tu blog
I love, love these guys.
Peruvian reggaetón trio Los Kalibre is making the Japanese shake their butts with catchy songs and lyrics mixing Spanish and Japanese in what the media is already calling Japoñol. The Peru-born recent Japan immigrants are convinced the Japanese will [...]

Pew poll: Black Americans and beliefs about race – Salon.com
“the way to overcome it is to start talking beyond race and start seeing beyond race. To be your brother’s keeper, you must first know that you are his brother. “
(tags: via:latoya race racism)

Pew poll: Black Americans and beliefs about race | Salon.com

Racial bias is alleged [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
This is too awesome. Angry Asian Man’s take on it cracked me up:

What… I don’t… There are no words. It’s from Singapore.
Oh well that explains it all – it’s from Singapore.

by Racialicious special correspondent Fatemeh Fakhraie, originally published at Muslimah Media Watch
You’ve probably heard about the recent ruling given to a Saudi gang-rape victim: 110 lashes added onto the original sentence of 90 lashes because she protested her sentence to the media. It’s a horrible and vindictive sentence, and the callous treatment this woman [...]

AFRICAN WOMAN SETS HERSELF ON FIRE TO PROTEST AGAINST RACISM – AFRICA TV
“The Belgian woman of Congolese origin who set herself alight in the middle of Place d’Armes told witnesses that she was doing it to protest against racism, moments before she carried out the desperate act which has left her in hospital fighting [...]