Chrissy Teigen Tweets About Her Recent Racist Encounter
Model Chrissy Teigen (@chrissyteigen) is making headlines this week after she described on Twitter a random encounter she had with…
Category: Racism
Mindy Kaling’s Brother Donned Blackface for 2 years in Twisted, Racist “Experiment”
(H/T M. Holt) Did y’all know Mindy Kaling had a brother? Yeah, neither did I. Turns out that the star…
When White Audiences Have Problems With TV Diversity
The 2014-2015 television schedule has been hailed as a breakthrough for television diversity. Not only did networks unroll an unprecedented…
Woman arrested for calling Chicago restaurant “Chop Chop Chinaman” racist in graffiti
Last October, Chicago-area entrepreneur Larry Lee helped to open a restaurant featuring Chinese & Szechwan cuisine. The sign featured a…
Two Violent Attacks on South Asian & Muslim Americans Reveal the Deadly Consequences of Implicit Bias
I apologize that I haven’t written about these stories until now: I’ve been out-of-town for the last week, and after…
Arkansas Gun Range Discriminates Against Muslims and Brown People
Jan Morgan is the owner of the Gun Cave, an indoor gun range in Hot Springs, Arkansas; she also describes…
Thoughts on #CharlieHebdo and the White Privilege of Free Speech
Last week, two terrorists stormed the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and murdered twelve men and women —…
Are FBI & State Dept blacklisting Asian American and Muslim employees?
This is easily the most underreported story of institutionalized anti-Asian and anti-Muslim racism of 2014. In the months following 9/11,…
Minorities Trapped in Tropes: The Conservative Right’s Cognitive Dissonance on POC Humanity
Earlier this year, unarmed Black teenager Michael Brown was fatally shot by police officer Darren Wilson; earlier this month, a…
No Indictment Verdict in Death of Eric Garner Begs Question: Will Cop Body-cams Really Help? | #BlackLivesMatter
This afternoon, a Staten Island grand jury refused to indict New York Police Department officer Daniel Pantaleo in the July…
Michael Brown: 50 years after James Chaney, how little has changed? | #BlackLivesMatter
Yesterday, President Obama post-humously awarded James Chaney the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in this country. Chaney,…
No indictment. No trial. No justice. No peace. | #BlackLivesMatter
Three hours ago, exactly, Ferguson district attorney Bob McCulloch stood before the nation and reminded us how little Black lives truly…