Shani on November 30th, 2010
Dodai Stewart asks whether the casting agents for the upcoming film adaptation of The Hobbit are racist because they turned away a dark-skinned woman seeking an extra role as a hobbit. The agents’ reasoning is that hobbits are fair-skinned. The woman who got turned away says it’s racism. Hobbit and Lord Of The [...]
Guest Contributor on November 29th, 2010
I was content to ride out 2010 listening to nothing but Kanye West’s brilliant new release, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Being the patriotic American that I am, though, I felt obligated to make some sort of Black Friday purchase – so, appropriately enough, I scooped up Pink Friday (and yes, I tried [...]
G.D. on November 25th, 2010
Via blog-cousin Channing Kennedy via Tusks Family Blog.
admin on November 23rd, 2010
On this week’s podcast, Nicole, Jamelle, Monica and G.D. sit around an actual dinner table to discuss some depressing new stats about the academic woes of black boys. They also try to make sense of some high-profile attempts to regulate food purchases (including a push to forbade people on government assistance from buying [...]
Shani on November 23rd, 2010
The LAT has a post up about the writer of the new Buffy The Vampire Slayer film reboot, Whit Anderson. The film is set to proceed without BTVS creator Joss Whedon, and Anderson calls on feminism to explain why she loves the character:
“I didn’t really watch much television at all, but [...]
Guest Contributor on November 23rd, 2010
In the New York Times’s most recent psycho-analysis of Kanye West, prompted by the release of his fifth album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, the exquisiteness of the product is written off in passing: “it’s terrific — of course it’s terrific.” But according to the Times, this fact is beside the point – [...]
G.D. on November 23rd, 2010
LessGentleMen: You In Reverse from Wale O on Vimeo.
This vid, by the hyper-talented Friend of the Blog AeonRND12 (the MC-beatmaker-photog-etc. who also created the theme to the PostBourgie podcast), features WaleO, himself a hyper-hyphenate (Afrobeat artist-attorney-best-dressed-man-in-America-finalist) engaging in reckless acts of public dandyism.
Photos from the shoot here.
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belmontmedina on November 22nd, 2010
The USDA’s Economic Research Service put out its latest figures for food insecurity hunger in the U.S. yesterday. From the press release:
In more than a third of those households that reported difficulty in providing enough food, at least one member did not get enough to eat at some time during the year and [...]
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