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Solving The Pipeline Problem
By Guest Contributors Sarah Milstein and Eric Ries, cross-posted from Startup Lessons Learned It’s well-known—and we ourselves have been publicly frustrated—that white men tend to dominate the speaker...
View ArticleSmile Time: An Auto-Tuned Walk Through Reading Rainbow’s History
By Arturo R. García Even if you’re not a fan of auto-tune, what stands out the most about this video, commissioned by PBS Digital Studios, is how well it showcases the impressive history behind Reading...
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The Racialicious Entertainment Roundup 1.12-18.13
By Arturo R. García, Kendra James, and Joseph Lamour Samuel L. Jackson (l) and Quentin Tarantino. Photo via Film Buff Online. Golden Globe Awards: I didn’t enjoy my Django Unchained viewing experience....
View ArticleRacialicious Crush Of The Week: Restaurant Opportunities Centers United’s...
By Andrea Plaid You know I love the hell out of something or someone when I have to write a second post about it/them. In my interview with Crush alum Yvonne Yen Liu, I posted this video ROC United...
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Meanwhile, On TumblR: In Case You Missed It
By Andrea Plaid Usually, I highlight some of the most popular posts on Tumblr, some of which appear here on the main R. However, there are some really great posts that may not have gotten the biggest...
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Race + Comics: On Green Lantern’s Near-Death Experience
By Arturo R. García John Stewart, the Green Lantern from Warner Brothers’ Justice League and Justice League Unlimited series. There’s a stink surrounding DC Entertainment’s alleged intention to kill...
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Voices: On Adria Richards
Former SendGrid “developer evangelist” Adria Richards. Image via butyoureagirl.com Let’s begin with Adria Richards’ own words. Have you ever had a group of men sitting right behind you making joke that...
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Racialicious Crush Of The Week: Sonia Gonzalez-Martinez
By Andrea Plaid Sonia Gonzalez-Martinez. Image provided by the interviewee. When it comes to film editing, it’s about the cut, and this week’s Crush, Sonia Gonzalez-Martinez, is one of the most...
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EBONY.com Shows Andrea Plaid Some Love
Racialicious.com Associate Editor Andrea Plaid As we begin the week, let’s send up a cheer for our own Associate Editor, Andrea Plaid, for being named one of 8 Dynamic Black Women Editors in New Media...
View ArticleMeanwhile, 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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