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Watch: Al Sharpton on That Time He Was Stabbed During a March
Cheers are in order for the living legend, the Rev. Al Sharpton, as he celebrates 50 years in the civil rights movement. Sharpton is one of the most recognizable activists from the movement and continues to fight the good fight, despite having been stabbed, jailed, indicted and ridiculed throughout his tenure. When Sharpton was 13…
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Unpopular Opinions: Does Sparing the Rod Spoil the Child? GMG Staffers Weigh In
It all started (in Slack) when one of the Fusion/Gizmodo Media Group staffers started talking about what we call our parents—daddy, mommy, mom, dad, momma, etc.—and then our weekend social media editor and resident comedian, Corey Townsend, admitted: “I called my mother the wicked witch one day and she thought I said bitch … she…
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Judge of Characters: Trump Saves the World With Cheap Paper Towels
This week, the whole world got a chance to see just how terrible the U.S. president could be when he finally made his way to the devastation in Puerto Rico. When Donald Trump wasn’t blaming Puerto Ricans for busting the budget because, you know … aid, he was throwing paper towels and flashlights at them,…
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Judge of Characters: Clapback for the D
Clapbacks are having the best week ever! There’s no one better than Rihanna when you’re talking clapbacks. Ms. Fenty has clapbacks down to a simple and sophisticated science that leaves all of your edges on the floor. Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty took the world and women of color by storm, selling out almost everywhere within the…
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Watch: Sterling ‘Bae’ Brown Explains That Viral Thirst Trap Emmy-and-Abs Pic
I thought it couldn’t get any better than Sterling K. Brown winning an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama for This Is Us. But it did! The head makeup artist on This Is Us, Zoe Hay, and head hairstylist Michael Reitz decided to gift the world with a snapshot of Brown proudly holding…
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Judge of Characters: Rooting For All the Black People
This week, Issa Rae said what we all thought and what we all do at any award ceremony: root for all the black people. And of course, after she said that, many non-black people lost their ever-loving minds, claiming Issa was perpetuating the same racism that proclaims that #BlackLivesMatter. *sigh* That’s not how racism works.…
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Netflix to Premiere Tragic Documentary The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
On Oct. 6, Netflix will globally premiere The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, directed by Oscar-nominated documentarian David France. The documentary courses through the untimely death and unsolved murder of the transgender trailblazer Marsha P. Johnson, all the while shedding light on the impact she had as a leader of the gay-rights movement.…
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Judge of Characters: The Bodega App and Tyrese Make the World Ask, ‘Why?’
This week, the biggest question that’s being asked all over the internet is … why? Why are people trying to reinvent, aka gentrify, bodegas? And why is Tyrese pleading for the Rock not to shoot the Fast and the Furious spinoff? I don’t have the answers to these questions, but I do have some hilarious…
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Judge of Characters: Jason Whitlock Refuses to Stand for Something, so He Falls for Anything
This week, we’re all as weary as the entire world is; no really, like, the actual planet Earth is exhausted and ready to self-destruct. And all I can say is, same sis, same. We’ve got people in the world like Jason Whitlock, who can’t seem to keep Colin Kaepernick’s name out his mouth, and there’s…
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Watch: Mudbound’s 1st Trailer Reveals a Soul-Stirring Story of Survival, Friendship and America’s Inequality
The trailer for Netflix’s Mudbound is here, and it’s more riveting and soul-stirring than all the critics claim. The Dee Rees-directed film follows the McAllan family, newly transplanted from Memphis, Tenn., and unprepared for the harsh demands of farming (aka real-life work). Despite the grandiose dreams of Henry McAllan (Jason Clarke), his wife, Laura (Carey…
