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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onFebruary 8, 2012
Sure, they're clueless about history -- but it's their take on what it means to be black now that really makes us cringe.
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onDecember 9, 2011
In today's link roundup: Are you too easily offended? Plus: Touré's advice on how to stay married.
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by Jenée Desmond-Harris onNovember 15, 2011
University of Southern Mississippi sorority girls thought this would be a cute choice for a 1980s party.
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by Nsenga Burton onOctober 26, 2010
NU is not having it.
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by Nsenga Burton onSeptember 30, 2010
Black people are the butt of the joke in the fashion industry, again.
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October 30, 2009
I’m bracing myself for one or two blackface Baracks. And I’m trying to decide now – because I do my best thinking when I’m not in a ridiculous costume – how I’ll react.
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September 25, 2009
On Thursday's episode of "The Colbert Report," Stephen Colbert introduces a new word into the American lexicon: Blackwashing.
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September 1, 2009
Mad Men is better off taking a smaller cut at race issues and really nailing the way they portray black characters, as opposed to weaving in a major racial theme and risking either overdoing or underdoing the nuance.
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by Jonathan Pitts-Wiley onFebruary 18, 2009
The black outrage over Robert Downey Jr.’s Oscar nod is predictable and misplaced.
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by Nick Charles onFebruary 17, 2009
A white man in an Afro wig? No!
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