By Special Correspondent Arturo R. García
Jim Lee reached some rare air Thursday, when he was introduced as co-publisher of the renamed DC Entertainment. The move makes him the highest-ranking Asian-American working for the comics industry’s Big Two (Cuban-American Joe Quesada is Editor-In-Chief at DC’s nemesis, Marvel). It also places Lee, who has already been running [...]

By Deputy Editor Thea Lim
You gotta laugh or you’ll cry: reader Dov sent us a link to an article about a flight attendant who used Taekwondo to subdue a passenger on a bad trip from too many medical marijuana cookies.  The passenger was Chinese-American, so CBS decided to run a photo of fortune cookies and [...]

By Special Correspondent Arturo R. García
Hmm HR?
- caption for this image, as posted by Questlove, drummer for The Roots, on Twitpic, Feb. 5
When i saw the sign i have to admit….i was DYING. like literally LMAO!!! maybe it was juxtaposition of the words: collard & history, jalapeno & honor, fried, black and nbc?? maybe [...]

By Guest Contributor Seth Wessel, originally posted at RaceWire

President Obama says the stimulus saved or created 2 million jobs in 2009. But is the recovery really working? The American dream of good jobs and strong communities is still just a dream for too many. The unfair economy hurts certain groups more, and that ends up [...]

by Special Correspondent Arturo R. García
Awhile back, Ghetto Manga reported that the Black Panther animated series, long in development for BET, had finally aired … but in Australia.
Awesome, I thought. And sure enough, ABC3, the Australian Broadcast Company’s kiddie channel, has Black Panther listed on its’ website. Surely BET would be happy to follow [...]

By Special Correspondent Arturo R. García
In the wake of the Reggie Bush controversy and this month’s Vanity FAIL, it’s worth spreading the word that magazines like Giant Robot & Hyphen are still in need of aid in order to stay afloat. As Jessica Lum notes::
Many of the organizations that were started to reach out, broadcast, [...]

By Deputy Editor Thea Lim

Reader Sanni sent us a link to this article by Joanna Douglas, “Vanity Fair’s “New Hollywood” issue completely lacks diversity“:

While we’d like to think celeb bible Vanity Fair puts a great deal of thought and planning into its annual “New Hollywood” issue, this year the editors really limited their scope when [...]

By Special Correspondent Nadra Kareem, originally posted at Bitch Magazine

Which celebrity has earned more bad press for reported acts of domestic violence—Chris Brown or Charlie Sheen?
When gossip Web site TMZ.com criticized Brown Jan. 21 for appearing with designer Jean Paul Gaultier, in makeup that made him look bruised and bloodied for a “warrior-themed runway show,” visitors [...]

by Guest Contributor CVT

Here’s one of my first Portland (Oregon) memories:
I’m at a bar with two white male friends.  Well, actually, I’m at a Chinese restaurant and bar . . . at a karaoke night. (*1)  With two white male friends.
Anyway.
My friends, in looking for a larger table for us, chat up these three cute(ish) [...]

by special correspondent Arturo R. García

My friends at Fantastic Fangirls turned me on to the Chromatic Comics meme that went around LiveJournal, Dreamwidth and similar blog sites. Simply put: a number of bloggers re-cast various fandoms with all-POC casts. Below are a few notable examples with links attached.
From Bossymarmalade’s Chromatic Marvel, you saw Vanessa Williams [...]

by Latoya Peterson

Unlike another magazine cover, the Ebony magazine spread on Kimora Lee and Djimon Hounsou is being embraced all over the (black) blogosphere. A couple of comments even lauded their black love.

Key Quote: “We need to act, not because Haiti is some nation of perennial victims we need to have pity on. We need to act because Haiti is a nation of heroes. And we need to repay them for what they’ve given us.”

by Guest Contributor Renina Jarmon (M.Dot), originally published at Model Minority
Black assimilation is premised on being accepted by White people and making them feel comfortable.
In reading Kevin Mumford’s brilliant book, Interzones, I learned that the Urban League and the NAACP are historically rooted in making sure that country Negros from the south, who moved to [...]

by Special Correspondent Wendi Muse
Latoya recently alerted me to a piece in Newsweek on the changing face of race in United States. Author Ellis Cose opines in his brief but compelling piece “Red, Brown, and Blue” that, as a result of the shifting statistics of people of color vs. whites in the U.S., the nation needs [...]

By Deputy Editor Thea Lim

Reader Carleandria sent us this strange New York Times article about heightened suicide rates in Korean American New York communities:
The number of suicides reported to the local Korean Consulate General has more than doubled this year, to 15 from 6 last year, and there were 5 in 2007. All of the [...]