By Special Correspondent Arturo R. García, also posted at The Instant Callback

In mining the Daily Show and Colbert Report styles for new material, David Alan Grier is, unfortunately for him, showing his age more than his experience with Chocolate News.
Credit is due DAG, of course, for even having his own show right now: his nearly [...]

Sad news for Jennifer Hudson – her mother and brother were murdered; the shooting has been categorized as domestic violence. An Amber alert has been issued for Hudson’s nephew, Julian King.
Stereohyped reports on an ING survey that states black women give away too much of their income.
Transgriot points our attention to the [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
As you’ve undoubtedly heard by now, Obama aired a 30-minute commercial on primetime TV last night. I found it in 4 parts on YouTube and included the clips below.
So readers, what do you think? Was this a good use of campaign funds? Do you think this commercial will convince undecided voters to [...]

by Latoya Peterson
Netizens of Racialicious, I would like to present our newest correspondent – Arturo R. García! Arturo will be joining the team to primarily cover television and trends. I asked Arturo for a bio, and in typical Arturo fashion, he took the assignment and ran with it – so enjoy this mock interview:

… Let’s [...]

by special correspondent Thea Lim
Thanks to the Toronto Asian Arts Freedom School for helping me figure out just why I have a hard time with Halloween, and for allowing me to share our strategies with Racialicious!

I’m a Halloween party pooper. I do a dismal job of dressing up. My last costume consisted [...]

by Guest Contributor Arturo R. García, also posted at The Instant Callback
Warning: Spoilers Ahead!

“Heroes is, at its heart, a family drama that deals with two main families in particular, the Bennet family and the Petrelli family.”
– Series creator Tim Kring, as quoted in Entertainment Weekly.
“Eris Quod Sum,” the series’ first episode since that unfortunate [...]

by Guest Contributor Nezua, originally published at The Unapologetic Mexican

AS SADDENED AND CYNICAL as I have become about humankind in my life, I still nurture a belief in the human heart and the sense of Right. I still feel that in most cases of wrong being done, all it takes is thinking, feeling people getting [...]

by Latoya Peterson

My friend Hae and I have been good friends for about four years. As an aesthete, Hae’s life tends to revolve around art and pop culture, both here and in Asia.* She is not a politically motivated person, so until we were sitting in traffic one day, I had no idea where her [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove, originally published at Carmen Van Kerckhove.com
Just seven days to go until perhaps the most important election ever.
I urge all of you who are Obama supporters: Do not get complacent now.
Sure, several polls suggest that Obama has a double-digit lead over McCain — but that doesn’t mean we should assume that he’s [...]

by Latoya Peterson

Warning – Explicit Language
While I was researching a piece for Feministe, I stumbled across an old video.
The video is of a TV appearance for John Lennon and Yoko Ono, performing their song “Woman is the Nigger of the World” on the Dick Cavett show.

John Lennon goes into great detail as to [...]

by Latoya Peterson

Apparently, so post-racial that the Feds just interrupted an assassination plot that would have eventually targeted Barack Obama.
Two white supremacists allegedly plotted to go on a national killing spree, shooting and decapitating black people and ultimately targeting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, federal authorities said Monday.
In all, the two men whom [...]

by Latoya Peterson
Please Note: This is NOT a D.L. Hughley fansite. You cannot contact him directly through this site, or leave feedback about his show.
Before I sat down to watch D. L. Hughley Breaks the News, I was skeptical of the whole project. D.L. Hughley doesn’t immediately come to mind when I think [...]

Hosted by Arturo R. García
This week, Heroes gave your humble panelists one of the choicest lines to work with in a stunningly out-of-character remark by Ando. Before we see what they have to say, though, let’s do the roll call. Roundtable – Assemble!
• Hexy!
• Mahsino!
• Erica!
Let’s go!

What the hell was with Ando’s “They all look alike to me”? [...]

by Special Correspondent Jessica Yee
This past Friday, I received a few e-mails with this shocker:
“Today a shock jock named T-Man on 93.3 F.M. in Seattle made some very racist remarks stating “All native women are hoes because [we] have casinos & [we're] all drunk”.
Apparently it got even worse from there. Interestingly enough, on the 9am [...]

by Latoya Peterson
It is with great pleasure that I announce our newest Special Correspondent – Jessica Yee! Jessica has already been doing an excellent job covering Native Issues, and she will also expand to food coverage in the near future. Here’s a little more about Jessica:

Jessica Yee is the founder and Director of the [...]