by Carmen Van Kerckhove
It’s been awhile since I perved out publicly on Racialicious over my faaaaaaavorite show, Lost.
But how awesome was last night’s episode? I’ve always thought the Desmond/Penny backstory was one of the most compelling ones, and it was so moving to finally see them reconnect. And anytime Desmond does his time [...]

by Racialicious special correspondent Wendi Muse
Author’s note: Before anyone jumps all over me, I use “brown” here as a general term for people of African or indigenous American descent, not solely South Asians or Central Americans, though the article discusses issues for all POC travelers, not just the ones with darker skin.
Ah, Madrid.
I had [...]

by Racialicious special correspondent Latoya Peterson
Continued from Parts 1 and 2
“The only people trying to sleep with teenagers are lower class/ghetto/have that kind of culture.”
Now, back to the race and class part of this one. One or two comments I read were in this vein – that this kind of behavior was not okay, but [...]

by guest contributor Brigitte, originally published at Make Fetch Happen
Last season Vivienne Westwood raised a few eyebrows when she publicly lambasted fashion editors, calling them racist for refusing to use black models on their pages. Westwood even went as far as to call for an affirmative action of sorts, to force editors to use a [...]

by Racialicious special correspondent Latoya Peterson
Continued from Part 1

“But girls lie about their age to date older guys, right?”
I am aware that some girls do lie about their age to date older guys.
When I was twelve, my best friend at the time had met a guy and lied to him about her age. She told [...]

20th Debate: Reality Show or a Spinoff? – New York Times
“reports show his huge rock concertlike rallies, not his more wilted moments after a debate or in between speeches…And clips of Mrs. Clinton increasingly illustrate the tale of a campaign derailed.”
(tags: barackobama politics tv)

Black Woman, Know That You Are Beautiful – afrobella
“Subtle slings and arrows [...]

by Racialicious special correspondent Latoya Peterson

The image above has been making the rounds of the feminist blogs, most notably Feministe and Feministing.
The ad was intended to target perpetrators of statutory rape in Milwaukee. Comissioned by the United Way of Milwaukee, the PSA style posters attempted to address a growing issue in that region: an increase [...]

Slime time at HillaryClinton.com – Undercover Black Man
“community blogs at HillaryClinton.com aren’t created by the Clinton campaign. They’re created by people like you and me. But guess what? BarackObama.com has community blogs also. And I don’t see any Hillary-bashing headlines there.
(tags: barackobama blogs politics)

Premier’s fan accused of death threats – TheStar.com
“Police have charged a Brampton [...]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson
The blog SavvySugar recently posted about a college grad who did an experiment to prove the American Dream – he voluntarily went into “poverty” to see how quickly he could climb out.
Adam Shepard’s experience has – naturally – netted him a book deal. ABC summarizes:
But Shepard’s descent into poverty [...]

by guest contributor Jenn Fang, originally published at Reappropriate
Last week, Colorado University — Boulder found itself at the center of a firestorm from the Asian American community after the campus newspaper, Campus Press published an opinion piece by an editor, Max Karson, entitled “If It’s War the Asians Want…”. In the piece, Karson engages in [...]

In Painful Past, Hushed Worry About Obama – New York Times
“Yet worry they do, with the spring of 1968 seared into their memories, when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated in a span of two months.”
(tags: barackobama politics race racism)

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A ton of you have been writing to me about a new blog called Stuff White People Like. It’s a hilarious, satirical Wikipedia-esque guide to exactly what the title says, filled with dead-on observations that make you laugh in surprise and recognition. And when I say recognition, I mean not only that [...]

by guest contributor Tami, originally published at What Tami Said
Last week I wrote about the furor surrounding Michelle Obama’s comments about being proud of her country. Some folks just don’t understand how one could not be proud of the United States of America. Luckily, Bill O’Reilly, that paragon of journalistic virtue, is reserving his judgement. [...]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent, Fatemeh Fakhraie

The New York Times has an article about the frustrations of Egyptian youth.
It opens with a profile on one Mr. Sayyid:
Once, Mr. Sayyid had a decent job and a chance to marry. But his fiancée’s family canceled the engagement because after two years, he could not raise enough money [...]

by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson
Browsing the Seeking Avalon blog, I notice that she’s provided yet another post on the racism (both subtle and overt) that plagues the comics industry.
This edition: The Visual Bait and Switch.

Willow wonders:
Who is that behind Wonder Woman?
Is that Vixen?
The yellow jumpsuit looks like it belongs to Vixen, if slightly the [...]