by Guest Contributor Angry Asian Man, originally published at Angry Asian Man

Aoki, by Ben Wang and Mike Cheng, is a new feature documentary chronicling the life of the late Richard Aoki, a third generation Japanese American who became one of the founding members of the Black Panther Party in 1966. Here’s the film’s official description:
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How can you call something “BlakRoc” when the black folks on the project only rap and the rockers are all white?
BlakRoc is the name of Damon Dash’s upcoming project, a collaboration between white rockers The Black Keys and rappers such as Mos Def, Q-Tip, Ludacris, and Raekwon, to name a few.  Ordinarily, I could care [...]

by Guest Contributor Lisa, originally published at Sociological Images
Protesters in Little Rock, Arkansas, (1959) declared that “race mixing” (or school integration) was “communism”:

A reader at Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish argues that accusations of communism then, and socialism now, are not only about the redistribution of wealth.  They are about the redistribution of privilege of [...]

by Guest Contributor Tami, originally published at What Tami Said

The Obama family’s ascendancy to the White House and the national spotlight causes quite a conundrum for black folks who pay attention to how black lives are discussed by media and the mainstream. On one hand, suddenly people notice that black people exist, particularly the black middle [...]

by Guest Contributor Angry Asian Man, originally published at Angry Asian Man

This is an interesting New York Times story about community tensions in Wichita, Kansas over a proposed new Vietnamese American monument to be erected at/near the city’s Veterans Memorial Park: In Kansas, Proposed Monument to a Wartime Friendship Tests the Bond.
The idea, proposed by [...]

By Guest Contributor Angry Asian Man, originally published at Angry Asian Man

Last week, the California legislature approved a landmark bill to apologize to the state’s Chinese American community for racist laws enacted specifically against Chinese immigrants as far back as the mid-19th century Gold Rush: California Apologizes to Chinese Americans.
The laws, some of which were [...]

By Guest Contributor Mitsuru Mitsuru

So I heard a while ago that celeb transman Thomas Beatie is a mixie much like myself. He too has a white mama, an Asian daddy, and originally, an Asian surname. He too was born with all the plumbing to make and be pregnant with a baby. And like [...]

By Guest Contributor Monica, originally published at TransGriot
One of the cool benefits of the recent Johnson Publishing Company deal with Google that allows digitizing of the iconic African-American magazines JET and EBONY is that it not only provides a record of Black history as it happened, it also is a cultural time capsule as well.
One [...]

By Sexual Correspondent Andrea (AJ) Plaid and Guest Contributor Fiqah
Fiqah:All right, full disclosure. I loathe Birth of a Nation. L-O-A-T-H-E, my friends. In my short time on this planet, I have been forced to endure two (!) viewings of the flick–twice the Recommended Lifetime Limit for Black people. The last time I watched this film [...]

By Guest Contributor Monica, originally published at TransGriot
In 1906 Kelly Miller stated, “All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritual vision.”
Because the half century of transgender history so far has been predominately written by people who don’t share my ethnic heritage, it has only covered one facet [...]

by Guest Contributor Ay-leen the Peacemaker, originally published at Tales of the Urban Adventurer

“In the colonies the truth stood naked, but the citizens of the mother country preferred it with clothes on.”- Jean-Paul Sartre

Prologue
When I first became interested in steampunk last year, I posed a question to one of my friends.
Me: “So… I was wondering [...]

by Guest Contributor (and regular commenter) Jha

Steampunk! Variously described as an aesthetic, a genre within scifi/fantasy that sprouted from cyberpunk, and a subculture vaguely related to the goth counter-culture. Like many other things with vague origins and a tenuous identity that overlaps with others, it is hard to pin down what steampunk is.
The only that [...]

by Latoya Peterson

Hello All!
I was tipped by Chrissy of the B-listed blog that DJ Spooky is at the Museum of Modern Art remixing the classic propaganda film The Birth of a Nation.
We interviewed performance artist and writer, DJ Spooky: That Subliminal Kid, on his latest project starting on Monday at MoMA here in NYC, where [...]

by Special Correspondent Wendi Muse
We all do it. 
We fall in love with the beautifully enchanting portrayal of the past that we  encounter in novels, historical fiction, and on the big screen. We get lost in the  dashing gentry, the voluminous hoop skirts, the lazy Sunday evenings. This fantasy past, however, is quite far from the [...]

By Guest Contributor Mimi, originally published at Threadbared
Whether deemed a “must have,” as some contestants on The Fashion Show insisted, or a hideous mistake, the so-called harem pant is back in a big, billowy way. But the resurgence of the harem pant in the long shadow of war in the Middle East –specifically, those conflicts [...]