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It’s been a hard year for racists, because racists seem to be really, really confused about what racism actually is. (Direct racists in your life to 1, 2 and 3 on this list.) Enter Twitter’s famous journalist Logan James, who, since October 2012, has worked to expose people who tweet the most disgusting, vile, misinformed…

Joy to the world. George Zimmerman is back on Twitter, thanking God for his freedom and promoting his original artwork. Mediaite reported Friday that Zimmerman joined Twitter as @TherealGeorgeZ, and his first tweet, dated Dec. 16, is a link to a painting he sold on eBay: It sold for more than $100,000. The rest of…

Trent Shelton, former NFL player-turned-motivational speaker and founder of the Christian-based nonprofit organization RehabTime, posted a video to his Facebook page on Dec. 11 of a young fan watching one of his talks. The girl’s mother narrates the video—which has already garnered more than 200,000 likes and shares on Facebook—as her daughter explains the importance…

Weddings! Dwyane Wade is officially engaged to his longtime girlfriend, actress Gabrielle Union. They both seem pretty happy about it, according to Twitter and Instagram. The couple took to their respective accounts on Saturday night to announce the engagement, and to show off Union’s ridiculously huge ring. (Internets: You may begin to employ Beyoncé’s “My…

So, black-cinema lovers: There’s a nine-hour conversation happening on Twitter right now. Director Ava DuVernay is making our Friday with the Rebel-a-thon event on Twitter, hosted by her organization AFFRM, which is described as a collection of “like-minded black film nerds” who “distribute the work of black independent filmmakers as [it] cultivates audiences for their…

Check out Diddy and his six children looking quite fancy on the family holiday card he shared on Twitter Thursday night: Here’s who’s who, clockwise from left: Chance, 5; Christian, 15; Diddy; Justin, 19; twins D’Lila and Jessie, 5; and Quincy, 22, in the bottom center. You should know that Diddy posts photos of his…

Hacking Twitter, the best-selling book about the social network’s meteoric rise to dominance, will be the basis of a new televisions series, Lionsgate announced Wednesday. If you’ve read the book, you know that Hacking Twitter is mostly about wealthy white men fighting over money and ideas. The show might not get any more interesting than…

<a href=”http://feministcurrent.com/author/meghan-murphy-2/” title=”Posts by Meghan Murphy founder of The Feminist Currant, has pissed quite a few people off with her latest post “The Trouble with Twitter Feminism.” In it, she details the problems she’s encountered while engaging with feminists on Twitter, and expounds on why she thinks “Twitter is a horrible place for feminism.” Among…

Beyoncé dropped an album last Thursday night, and we’ve spent a lot of time dissecting the meaning of that moment. (Is she groundbreaking? Is she a feminist? Is she allowed to call herself a feminist? Was her nontraditional marketing really just a brilliant marketing ploy? Is she condoning rape on “Drunk in Love”?) Enter #BeyonceThinkPieces,…

We’ve long known about R. Kelly and his taste for underage girls. We all saw the video in which the singer allegedly pees on an underage girl. None of the details of the situation—the video, the dragged-out child pornography case, his marriage to 14-year-old Aaliyah in 1994—are lost on our collective pop-culture memory. Which makes…