Recently, Dilbert creator Scott Adams had his comic strip dropped by its distributor, Andrews McMeel Syndication, and newspapers across the country when he went on a racist rant on his Real Coffee with Scott Adams program. Adams, who’s morphed into a right-wing conspiracy theorist in recent years, was responding to …
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Sidney Poitier walked among kings and earned Hollywood’s highest honors, but that didn’t stop the Federal Bureau of Investigation from keeping tabs on the actor and philanthropist via informants and surveillance tactics during the civil rights era, according to documents newly obtained by Rolling Stone. Poitier, who passed away at …
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On the heels of the controversy over Roald Dahl’s children’s books, the publishers of the James Bond novels have announced that the upcoming reprinting of Ian Fleming’s spy series will also have derogatory and racist language removed from the original text. While the editing of Dahl’s books focused on making …
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We have had beer thrown at us, people walking up to us doing the chop, people yelling in our faces asking why we are here, and telling us to go home. Guess what? We are home. We, the Not in Our Honor Coalition, have been protesting Kansas City football’s appropriation …
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For the first time in history, two Black quarterbacks will face off in a game which will decide the championship of a professional football league — in the U.S., that is. The outcome of Super Bowl LVII will likely be decided by those Black signal-callers: Patrick Mahomes, the newly-minted 2022 …
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Mere hours after LeBron James broke the NBA’s all-time scoring record, one held for decades by the great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the two-part documentary Bill Russell: Legend debuted on Netflix. Directed by Sam Pollard (MLK/FBI), it’s a three-hour-plus survey of the life and career of the basketball legend, civil rights icon, …
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When there is a Black principal actor in a scary movie, we all know what their fate entails. Enter Dr. Robin R. Means Coleman and vet movie critic Mark H. Harris, who have made it their duty to hunt down the controversial cultural schisms in horror cinema from 1968 on …
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“We’ve heard plenty of stories about teenage werewolves. There’s always a new one.” It’s an ending quip made by Dr. Conrad Fenris (John Posey), an expert on lycanthropy and the on-again, off-again director of Eichen House, a supernatural prison/insane asylum set in the mysterious Southern California town of Beacon Hills …
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In the first episode of Hulu’s new docuseries The 1619 Project, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones strolls in her Air Jordans down a picturesque path in Williamsburg, Virginia. With the help of Woody Holton, a Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, Hannah-Jones explores how slaves in Virginia …
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I hope you’re sitting down. A Bachelor contestant has been called out for their racist past. In recent seasons it’s become a predictable part of the show’s meta-drama, and this year it happened in record time. Less than 24 hours ago, Greer Blitzer, who won Zach Shallcross’ first impression rose, …
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