by Latoya Peterson

Living Single recently popped back into my mind after I overheard a woman on her cellphone loudly telling a friend “I’ll be right there, but first I need to go home and change my wig!”
That one little comment uttered on the metro brought back one of my favorite Regine lines of all time, […]

Excerpted by Latoya Peterson

His enemies list has grown as he sits in jail, and it was recently expanded to include Access Hollywood reporter Maria Menounos, who did an interview Francis didn’t like. “She called me the ‘ever defiant Joe Francis,’ ” he howls. “Fuck yeah, I’m defiant! It’s like that defiant Rosa Parks won’t give up […]

This spoke to me…so, I bring it to you - Jack and Jill Politics
“Because in the underlying logics of white supremacy, she is automatically by default worthy in her whiteness, and he is by default suspect and less-than and unworthy, and he has to prove otherwise by insane standards.”
(tags: barackobama whitesupremacy racism)

Republican Official Admits Racism […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
How curious. A chunk of Moe’s questions/commentary seems to have disappeared from the original post on Jezebel. (Hat tip to reader van.)
Most notably …
“So, back to you. Urine is an ever present smell?”
and
“FOR NEXT TIME. 1. Getting laid in Yemen 2. Islam - can it be saved? 3. Guantanamo - what’s […]

by Latoya Peterson
Paging through the new issue of GQ, I happened to notice an article on the upcoming Harold and Kumar movie. I browsed the article - which is a critique of the film that gives away way too much of the plot - before pausing at this paragraph:
The lowly stoner comedy has always […]

by Latoya Peterson
I am in the middle of working on a series about hip-hop, but I came across these two gems and had to share.
From Ta-Nehisi Coates:
dnA chimed in on his site and basically read my mind by making the point that people who make judgments about the moral worth of hip-hop, often aren’t especially […]

by Latoya Peterson
Resist Racism just came out with a great piece on the impact of campus hate speech:
In the ten-year period from 1996-2006, 21 Cornell students committed suicide. Thirteen of them (approximately 62 percent) were of Asian descent. Additionally, there have been suicides at Cornell by non-students.
In at least four cases, people killed themselves by […]

by Latoya Peterson
Upon hearing Nas’ newest single on the radio yesterday, my boyfriend was compelled to call the station.
“How is it possible that you all are trying to play a song where you bleep out 75% of the lyrics?”
Good question.
I took a quick glance at the lyrics online, and thought to myself, damn - maybe […]

by Guest Contributor Aaminah Hernández, originally published at Writeous Sister Speaks
I was approached by Latoya Peterson, editor for Racialicious, to write something about this piece at Jezebel. I want to preface this with three disclaimers:
1) I don’t normally read Jezebel. I’m not faulting those who do, it just doesn’t appeal to me and I’ve got […]

by Guest Contributor Nadra Kareem, originally published at The Whirliest Girl

In late 2005, I was visiting my Aunt Joan in Chicago. The visit pretty much entailed me trying to avoid the cold and, thus, spending much time with her remote in hand, flipping through the gazillion channels offered by her Satellite provider. One day I […]

by Guest Contributor Melinda, originally published at Muslimah Media Watch

There’s a trend in the Americas. Latina* women are getting tired of Catholicism. They’re sick of being called “mamacita” in the streets. They don’t want to deal anymore with the chauvinistic pigs otherwise known as Latino men. So they’re throwing away their tank tops and their […]

Bill Clinton: Obama camp ‘played the race card on me’ « - Blogs from CNN.com
“The former president had been asked whether his remarks comparing Obama’s strong showing in South Carolina to that of Jesse Jackson in 1988 had been a mistake given their impact on his wife Hillary Clinton’s campaign. “No, I think that they […]

by Guest Contributor Wendi Muse, originally published at The Coup Magazine (blog)
Take a moment to survey the photo above. This is an advertisement for Corcoran Group Real Estate found in the March 31, 2008 issue of New York Magazine. The text in the caption reads as follows:
At Corcoran, we understand that your home is […]

by Guest Contributor Tami, originally published at What Tami Said

(In the video above, “Banished” filmmaker Marco Williams talks about the documentary.)
A hundred years ago, in communities across the U.S., white residents forced thousands of black families to flee their homes. Even a century later, these towns remain almost entirely white. BANISHED tells the story […]

MultiCultClassics: 5380: Mad Ave Diversity Color Commentary.
“Besides setting their own hiring goals…the agencies participating in the pact never agreed to a definition for what constitutes a minority. From a legal standpoint, White women are categorized as minorities. To honestly assess the success, someone must
(tags: advertising race diversity)

What About Our Daughters?: Alternate ending to the Genarlow […]