Racial slurs appear in more than 10,000 tweets per day, according to a recent study conducted by Demos. The think tank mined more than 125,000 English-language tweets and discovered that close to one in every 15,000 contained racial epithets. The most common slurs are pretty gross. They include “Paki,” “nigga,” “spic,” “crow” and “squinty.” Oh,…

Trayvon Martin would have turned 19 years old today had he not been shot and killed by George Zimmerman nearly two years ago. His mother, Sybrina Fulton, shared this birthday tribute to her slain son earlier today: It’s tough to digest, made more difficult by the news today that rapper DMX has accepted the challenge…

Former Reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton stepped into it Sunday when he distastefully weighed in on actor Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death. Strange, huh? It got worse. Twitter pounced on him for his insensitivity. So, of course, he doubled down, declaring that Hoffman “wasted a great gift”: Not sure why Burton became Judgy McJudgy over Hoffman’s…

The White House hosted a Google Hangout Friday, and President Obama took burning questions live from citizens about issues, policy and his well-being. The White House and Google billed the event, which featured nine people from across the country, as the “first-ever presidential hangout road trip.” All of the questions—culled from the motley group of…

Well, this is rich. According to Radar Online, George Zimmerman has agreed to participate in a celebrity boxing match for charity. Which celebrity? We don’t know, since Zimmerman is still looking for an opponent. But according to TMZ, the event promoter is not discriminating! Purple, yellow, white or black contenders can catch the fade. “It was…

Bad news for students who thought “Oprah Scholars Program,” which promised to give $20,000 to the first 50,000 people to follow an Instagram account of the same name: It’s a scam. Shocker. An Instagram post calling for entrants read, “Oprah Scholars Program Scholarships for the first 50K followers then partial scholarships to the first 100K…

Actor Vin Diesel loves music. In this seven-minute video posted to his Facebook page, Diesel dances, stands awkwardly, sings off-key and mouths the words to Katy Perry’s “Dark Horse” and Beyoncé’s “Drunk in Love.” No patience for the full seven minutes? For highlights, fast-forward to 6:00 and watch Diesel do the Damon Dash. He also…

Here’s a consensus: Kendrick Lamar’s debut album, good kid, M.A.A.d. City, was the best rap album recorded last year. Another popular opinion: Macklemore is kinda cheesy. So of course, people weren’t happy when Macklemore’s The Heist beat out Lamar’s freshman effort for best rap album at last night’s Grammy Awards show. (Macklemore won four Grammys…

Justin Bieber spoke out for the first time after his arrest by posting a split image of him and Michael Jackson to Instagram Friday morning. The photo is captioned “What more can they say.” Bieber’s photo was taken as he sat on top of his black Escalade and blew kisses to his fans shortly after…

Nicki Minaj isn’t happy that her forehead appears to have been altered on the cover of ESPN the Magazine’s annual music issue, according to her post on Instagram. Minaj describes the photo, taken with Kobe Bryant, as “when retouching goes wrong.” Not quite sure that the forehead manipulation is obvious, but her body does look…