Meanwhile, On TumblR: The Non-Fiction Flick And Vid Edition
By Andrea Plaid I think I’ve been a bad influence on the R’s Senior Editor Tami Winfrey Harris because I’ve been talking her into watching documentaries for our Table for Two posts. We have another one...
View ArticleQuoted: Al-Jazeera On Coverage Of The Boston Bombing Suspects
Muslims face prejudice, but Muslims from the Caucasus face a particular kind of prejudice – the kind born of ignorance so great it perversely imbues everything with significance. “There is never...
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Quoted: Highlights From Jay Smooth’s “T-Paining Too Much: The Meme-ification...
There’s so many questions that probably won’t have easy or pretty answers. And, there’s a rule that people usually apply to this, and that is the “Now Is Not The Time” rule. And usually its applied to...
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Excerpt: On The Death Of Fukushima Plant Hero Masao Yoshida
Former Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant manager Masao Yoshida. Image via RT/Agence France-Presse The ex-head of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant Masao Yoshida, 58, died at a Tokyo hospital of...
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Race + Journalism: New Data Shows Lack of Diversity in American and British...
By Arturo R. García Newspaper stand in downtown Chicago. Image by Chris Metcalf via Flickr Creative Commons. This week has seen two developments underscoring the lack of advancement for journalists of...
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Gender, Race, And Going To Class: A Call For A Feminist Reading of For-Profit...
By Guest Contributor Tressie McMillan Cottom, cross-posted from The Feminist Wire Most of us have seen the ads exhorting us to “call today!” to start on a new future with a college degree. How many of...
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#POC4culturalenrichment: The Racialicious Interview
By Arturo R. García All tweets posted with permission of Suey Park. Colorado State University graduate student Suey Park opened up another welcome Twitter discussion into diversity and race relations...
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Race + Tech: Despite ‘Titstare,’ Black Girls Code Does Disrupt Right
By Arturo R. García While a pair of sophomoric, reckless displays ended up being the calling card for this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt developers’ gathering, let’s not let that take away from the work...
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Is Geek America Ignoring Miss America?
By Arturo R. García Lost in the morass of morons who decided to pop up after Nina Davuluri was crowned Miss America on Sunday was … well, just about everything else about her. But as Lakshmi Gandhi...
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Technical Difficulties
By Arturo R. García Apologies for the lack of content on Wednesday. About once or twice a year, WordPress decides it’s just not going to connect to the server, and Tuesday night was one of those...
View ArticleRace + Tech: Watch Black Girls Code’s Kimberly Bryant’s TED Talk
By Arturo R. García The opening of Kimberly Bryant’s video lays it out: “Just to say the words ‘Black Girls’ is revolutionary.” In this presentation from a TED Talks event in Kansas City in August...
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Our Facebook page is open for business again
Image via Facebook. No, don’t worry, we haven’t been taken over by Zuckerborg. We’re here to announce that our Facebook page is back up and running, with a mix of new and revisited content, and other...
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Blog update: The lights are back on
Image by NikonFilm35 via Flickr Creative Commons We’ve just about gotten the latest hack mess fixed, and will start posting again Wednesday morning. Sorry, again, for the delay. But we’re working on...
View ArticleOpen Thread: Shonda Rhimes says ‘A Hashtag Is Not Helping’
By Arturo R. García Considering that at least part of her success has been buoyed by Twitter, Scandal showrunner Shonda Rhimes’ apparent views on Twitter seem somewhat dismissive. During her...
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Live From IndieCade: Let’s Do Something About It
By Arturo R. García Top row, L-R: Moderator Shawn Alexander Allen, TJ Thomas, Racialicious owner Latoya Peterson. Bottom row, L-R: Catt Small, Ashley Alicea, Fatima Zenine Villanueva. This past weekend...
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On DC Entertainment, Cyborg, And Going Back To The Afrofuture
By Arturo R. García DC Entertainment scored a rare PR victory over archrival Marvel over the weekend when it announced its upcoming slate of films. At first glance, this latest take on the DC movie...
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Re-Re-Birth Of The Cool: Static Shock Gets A Shocking Online Revival
By Arturo R. García Well now this is interesting. As Variety reported on Tuesday, the demand for a new Static Shock revival will finally be met, in perhaps the most unexpected of fashions: an...
View ArticleRevenge Of The Blerd: The Racialicious Review of Dope
By Arturo R. García What’s supposed to be a romantic moment in Rick Famuyiwa’s Dope ends up being one of its more problematic: we see the protagonist, Malcolm, tell his love interest Nakia, “Don’t sell...
View ArticleWatch: Latoya Spotlights Women In Gaming Culture in Fusion’s ‘Girl Gamers’
If you’re not following the Fusion network, you may have missed our founder, Latoya Peterson, and Girl Gamers, her 5-part miniseries highlighting women across the gaming industry spectrum. Last week’s...
View ArticleSan Diego Comic Fest: Ajani Brown presents a primer on Afrofuturism
By Arturo R. García [View the story “San Diego Comic Fest: The Trial of the Winter Soldier” on Storify] The post San Diego Comic Fest: Ajani Brown presents a primer on Afrofuturism appeared first on...
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