These occasionally enlightening, mostly exhausting conversations regarding gender and race have highlighted the often uneasy historical relationship that has existed between feminists and civil rights activists, progressive movements that still often managed to give shelter to the most insidious kinds of chauvinism, patriarchy and bigotry. Ari Kelman, one of the history professors over at edgeofthewest, Read More
A study by University of Iowa researchers says black women’s magazines give crappier advice about weight loss than ‘mainstream’ magazines. The study says that black women’s publications are more likely to suggest fad diets and ‘faith’. Great, considering that at least 70% of black women in the U.S. are overweight or obese.
Remember in Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo when Kelly, Turbo and Ozone had to stop the developer from tearing down the neighborhood community center? This is like that, but real and with fewer headstands.
YouNotSneaky was nice enough to let us re-run a blog entry of his that he posted last year on way ‘The Wire’ deals with economics. Possible spoilers from the first three seasons. I’m really surprised that no one’s has mentioned the economics of the HBO show “The Wire” (though there have been discussions as to Read More
So Iowa goes to Huck, N.H. to McCain and Michigan to our mortal enemy Mitt Romney. Said John Dickerson: “The GOP primary is starting to look like a Pee Wee soccer tournament: Everyone gets a trophy!” No GOP Anchor in Sight. [NYT]
Nearly forty years ago when she was an overachieving college senior at Wellesley College, Hillary Rodham was chosen to give a speech at her commencement, the first time a Wellelesley student had ever done so. She garnered considerable press attention for criticizing Senator Edward Brooke, who’d spoken just before she did (interestingly, Brooke was the Read More
The folks at The New Republic are at odds over what Obama’s assertion that Omar is his favorite character from The Wire (his favorite show, along with M*A*S*H) really means. Is that edgy or something? Michael Crowley thinks so.
Proponents of Indiana’s voter I.D. law say it will help prevent voter fraud. But Jeffrey Toobin blasts the motivations for the law in this week’s New Yorker.
Legendary comedian and classist bourgie Negro icon Bill Cosby once infamously criticized poor black folks for spending all their money on $500 sneakers instead of educational toys and claimed they had mixed-up priorities. A backlash ensued. According to Slate‘s Ray Fisman, who points to a new study about race and consumer tendencies, Dr. Huxtable is Read More
ABC seems intent on disallowing us all to forget what happened on Broadway nearly four years ago–you know, when Diddy was cast as Walter Lee Younger in Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun. We understand it had to be done back then. Diddy’s top billing packed the Royale Theatre for every performance and is Read More
