New York Times Report Reveals Donald Trump's Father Was the Real Baller, Not Him
It turns out that Donald Trump is huckster, liar and a fraud. Who knew?
Sarah Sanders’s Misguided Call to Action Has the Opposite Effect
I would like to first give a shoutout to Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s unwavering support of Donald Trump. If there was anyone who epitomizes what Tammy Wynette meant when she sang “Stand By Your Man,” Sanders is it. Nothing this president has done is indefensible in her book. She is more “ride or die” than anyone I have…
Trump Wants Department of Justice to Investigate Who Wrote New York Times Op-Ed
Because President Donald Trump doesn’t know how any of this works, he still believes that the Department of Justice is his personal militia who exist merely to handle cases he deems worthy.
A Completely Insane but Very Possible Conspiracy Theory That Ben Carson Authored the NYT Op-Ed
The last time we heard anything about the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Secretary Ben Carson, he was trying to get some blinged-out furniture for his office. It wasn’t on some Paul Manafort ostrich skin-level shit, but Ben was definitely trying to hype his office on some Diddy-esque executive swag.
You Are Not Part of the 'Resistance' If You Are Hiding Behind Anonymity
On Wednesday, the New York Times skirted its normal editorial policy and allowed a senior official in the Trump administration to write an anonymous op-ed essay titled “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration.” The official explains in their essay that there is a contingent of administration…
'There Is No Model Survivor': Tarana Burke Warns Against the Derailing of #MeToo [Corrected]
Correction: August 21 at 2:04 p.m. EDT: An earlier version of this article mistakenly identified Rose McGowan as Rose Byrne.
Allegedly 'Smart' White People Keep Getting Dumber and Dumber About Racism
I’m going to keep this short, because variants of this piece have been written so many times that spending more than 600 words on this will make my ears explode.
The 10 Worst Sentences From Andrew Sullivan's 'When Racism Is Fit to Print,' Ranked From 'STFU Andy' to 'Does He Have a Concussion?'
Andrew Sullivan has been saying dumb things about race and racism on TV and the Internet for as long as I’ve known who Andrew Sullivan is. I’m convinced he’s able to do this because he’s British and has an admittedly nice beard—which makes people assume his words are 30 percent smarter than they actually are.…
Michelle Alexander Joins the New York Times Opinion Pages as Full-Time Columnist
Michelle Alexander, author of the best-selling book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, will become a columnist for the New York Times Opinion pages, the Times announced Thursday.
NYPD Tried to Blame High Marijuana Arrest Rates for Black People on Higher Call Rates. Here’s Why That Doesn’t Add Up
The New York City Police Department has recently attempted to explain its disproportionate arrest rates of black and Hispanic people on weed charges by saying that more residents in majority-black and -Hispanic neighborhoods call the cops to complain about weed.
Opioid Mixture Killed Veteran News Anchor Roy Hobbs
Dance Break! Yara Shahidi Covers T Singapore
We know—we’re obsessed. And clearly, we’re already missing Grown-ish way too much, since we’re giving you a day full of Chloe, Halle and, now, a double dose of Yara. But we couldn’t possibly see our favorite ingenue on the April cover of the New York Times Style Magazine’s Singapore edition and not share it with…
The New York Times Documents Police Lying
New York Times Gets 1,400 Ideas for ‘Overlooked’ Obits
You Have to Be Perfect or Lucky (or Perfect and Lucky) to Buy a House If You’re Black
I’ve learned through age, maturity, meditation and Lisinopril to not allow myself to be bothered with certain things that might have irked me 10 or even five years ago. Basically I’m learning to give less fucks because fucklessness is a form of self-care for me. But there is (at least) one strain of conversation that…
Lerone Bennett, Ebony Editor and Historian, Dies
New York Times Hires, Fires Reporter for Using the N-Word, but She’s Not Racist ... Just White
In an obvious display of one-upmanship during Black History Month, the New York Times erased the notable achievement of African-American icon Craig Jones from the movie Friday, who was famously fired on his day off, when the heralded newspaper abruptly fired white opinion writer Quinn Norton on the same day it hired…
10 Thoughts on Anna Holmes’ New York Times Op-Ed ‘Black With (Some) White Privilege’
Anna Holmes, the founder of Jezebel and editorial director at Topic.com, recently wrote an op-ed for the New York Times titled, “Black With (Some) White Privilege.” Full disclosure: I’m part of a currently running, very interesting and insightful documentary series she executive-produced called The Loving Generation, …
N.Y. Times Brass Missing at Pioneer Black Photographer’s Funeral
About 60 or 70 people paid tribute Saturday at services for Don Hogan Charles, who played a historic role at the New York Times as its first black photographer, but “there were no senior management representatives present from either the Photo Desk or corporate,” former Times photographer Chester Higgins Jr. told…
2017: The Year Liberal White People Reminded Us That They’re White, Too
Any time capsule attempting to capture 2017 would definitely include an acoustic cover of “Bodak Yellow,” an American flag with a Colin Kaepernick figurine kneeling on it, a clip of the sunken-place scene from Get Out and an Apple watch, just in case someone in the future discovers a reason for it existing. But the…
