Media
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Jemele Hill Says Race Was Definitely a Factor in Being Labeled 'Too Political' for ESPN
For years, whenever complaints about ESPN being “too political” came up, anchors Jemele Hill and Michael Smith were pointed to as the primary culprits. Their race was always the subtext, though no one—least of all ESPN—seemed to want to call attention to it. But now that Hill has taken her talents to the Atlantic, where…
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When Your 'Sex Diary' Becomes the Poster Child for Racial Festishizing
Before this morning, I didn’t even know The Cut’s “Sex Diaries” existed. The regular column is essentially an outsourced Sex and the City Carrie Bradshaw piece, inviting anonymous New Yorkers to chronicle their “comic, tragic, often sexy, and always revealing” sex diaries for a week. Something about it seems vaguely quaint, but whatever. Content is…
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Soledad O'Brien Wants Journalists to Stop Playing Games and Call a Racist a Racist
There’s a lot of people out here, namely, journalists who refuse to call out Donald Trump as a racist. One seasoned newsperson, Soledad O’Brien, ain’t having it! O’Brien has built her career as a storyteller and also as a truth-teller. “I often on Twitter talk to journalists because I feel like they dropped the ball at…
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Tiffany Haddish Reveals She Was Raped as a Teen by a Police Cadet
It’s been said often enough to become cliché that humor is a kind of armor. For funny-woman Tiffany Haddish, that armor came at a cost. In the September issue of Glamour, the 38-year-old comedian opens up about a painful and life-changing sexual assault at the hands of a police cadet. Haddish was just 17-years-old at…
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Stacey Abrams, Who May Become the Country's 1st Black Female Governor, Lands Cover of Time's 'The South' Issue
Stacey Abrams, the Georgia politician whom many hope will be America’s first black female governor, graces the cover of Time magazine this week as the publication focuses its latest issue on the American South. At 44, the former Georgia state Senate minority leader has a proven track record. Time focuses on her gravitas and her…
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Black Journalist Groups Call Out TV Station for Airing Photo of Stabbing Victim Nia Wilson Appearing to Hold a Gun
Several prominent black media groups have slammed a local Bay Area news station for running a photo of Nia Wilson—the 18-year-old black woman stabbed to death at an Oakland BART station—that they say is unethical. The photo in question aired on KTVU Fox 2 on a noon newscast on July 23—not even 24 hours after…