Anyone who says personal style isnât political is fooling themselvesâand anyone whoâs ever been discriminated against because of their chosen hairstyle or non-gender-conforming style of dress knows this. From âmessage teesâ to choosing to wear our natural hair to work (or on the red carpet), our appearance is ourâŚ
How is it that at the same time Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was in front of Congress giving testimony that said his company does ânot allow hate groupsâ on its platform, white nationalist and king of the âalt-rightâ Richard Spencer managed to have not one, but two pages representing his hate ideology active on theâŚ
A Facebook group that plotted and planned to create mayhem for the Black Panther movie on crowdsourced film-review site Rotten Tomatoes has been taken down.
The Punisher is brutal, bloody and exceedingly violent. But that doesnât mean that the Netflix showâs star, Jon Bernthal, is here for any of the bullshit, especially when it comes to white supremacist trolls and terrorists appropriating the franchiseâs logo for their own purposes.
Just when I thought weâd had enough of Richard Spencer and anything to do with his trash-ass hoard of hateful white people and we would leave him and the âalt-rightâ and Nazis behind in 2017, the Dallas Morning News decided to announce that he was a finalist for the prestigious paperâs âTexan of the Yearâ award.
Karma is real. Although Iâm generally happy for most peopleâs success, there are times when karma bites others on the butt and all I can do is laugh. Like when a bully catches a beatdown or when women dismiss a slightly nerdy dude because they prefer guys âwith a little bit of thug in them,â then their purse ends upâŚ
In what may be the worst episode of the new show Law & Order: White Supremacy, lawyers representing Taylor Swift sent a cease and desist letter to a website that insinuates she is a silent supporter of the âalt-right.â
The black protester who was caught on viral video hugging a squirming and uncomfortable neo-Nazi outside white supremacist dump truck Richard Spencerâs speech at the University of Florida in Gainesville on Thursday is acknowledging that he could just as easily have hit the guy (an act in which someone else had earlierâŚ
In a recent op-ed, author Howard Jacobson argues that satire is among the most potent forms of criticism. Writing about the recent play that recast Julius Caesar as a parody of Donald Trump, Jacobson wrote that âwounding the vainglorious is a pleasing pastime in itself and contributes to their demoralization.â
There are some things for which we donât need confirmation. And when I say âwe,â I mean black people. There are many things that we know, even though we donât know know.
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll done in collaboration with the University of Virginia Center for Politics has found that while respondents by and large reject white supremacists and neo-Nazis, many share the same racial beliefs to which these vilified groups subscribe.
On July 5, 1969, a group of musicians waited in the wings in Londonâs Hyde Park before singing at a free concert. They were members of one of the most famous groups in the world. But the Beatles were bigger than they were. The Temptations would sell more records than they did that year. And even though Elvis was stillâŚ
The organizer of white supremacist Richard Spencerâs speaking tour has decided to file a lawsuit against Michigan State University, claiming that the university violated Spencerâs First Amendment rights by refusing to give him a space to spread his hateful garbage speak on campus.
Somewhere in the good olâ book, thereâs a saying that goes, âThere is nothing new under the sun.â Now, Iâm about six years removed from my last Sunday school class, but Iâm pretty sure this concept also applies to a fairly old concept:
Nicholas Fuentes is now a former student of Boston University just a week after attending the âalt-rightâ rally in Charlottesville, Va. Fuentes says that threats and harassment caused him to transfer to Auburn University in Alabama, where his Southern pride and love of cement statues will probably be embraced.
This week, weâve been faced with more Donald Trump make-believe. In a delayed press conference after the tragic white supremacist riot in Charlottesville, Va., we all watched in horror as Trump mentioned that he was supposed to be addressing veterans benefits but Charlottesville happened. And then he basicallyâŚ
After the deplorable racist and violent incidents that happened over the weekend in Charlottesville, Va., many have spoken out against the white supremacists involved and called for action to be taken. One state senator in North Carolina took it a step beyond by calling Black Lives Matter a âviolent, racist movementââŚ
On Saturday, 32-year-old Heather Heyer was killed after authorities say a white nationalist slammed his car into a group of protesters rallying to combat hate. It took the president some two days to come out against the group of people whose tiki-torch-laced march led to the death of Heyer and the injuries of severalâŚ
For those of you just tuning in, what was supposed to be a protest against the removal of Confederate monuments in the city of Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday turned into a full-blown Ku Klux Klan, âalt-right,â neo-Nazi revival meeting complete with burning torches, black people being attacked and beaten by racistâŚ
