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Two Utah High Schoolers Wear Blackface, Judge Mathis Speaks On Divorce, New Yorker Cover Gives Black Folks The Willies, Jack Daniel’s Ends DEI And More
The best and most popular culture stories from the week.
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“Dilbert” Creator Scott Adams Isn’t the Only Racist Cartoonist. Here Are More Who History Will Never Forget [UPDATED]
Adams' recent tirade reminds us that racism in the cartoon world is nothing new.
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The New Yorker Fires Editor Who Called Out Lack of Diversity
But the 97-year-old magazine says it's not the lily-white institution it used to be.
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I Too Have Pulled Out Some Peanuts During a Zoom Work Call, and I Don't Get Why Everyone's Mad at Jeffrey Toobin
It was a month ago, I think. Maybe two. Maybe last week. Time is a flat circle. I was on a Zoom call with either the people I don’t need to actually see in order to effectively communicate with them—which is most people. Like eight billion people. Or the people I might actually need to…
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Did the New Yorker Recently Feature Its First Black Female Cartoonist? (No, but She's Still a Big Deal)
Amid the global panic a global pandemic can inspire, it might be easy to forget that it’s still Women’s History Month—and the start of spring, but that’s likely cold comfort if you’re afraid to go outside. As we’ve tried to bright-side this socially isolating situation, we’ve increasingly been looking inward—literally. What joy can we find…
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‘Quiet As It’s Kept’: Artist Kara Walker Creates the New Yorker’s Cover Tribute to Toni Morrison
Anyone familiar with the work of Toni Morrison knew it was a force, as was the woman who wrote it. The visions Morrison rendered were both unflinching and tender, exposing the sometimes shameful truths of our natures and whispering them back to us like a lover’s secret. The same could be said of the work…
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White People Just Keep White Peopleing
It would be wildly disingenuous to claim that I was disappointed in The New Yorker editor David Remnick’s decision to feature sentient barrow of racist cat jizz Steve Bannon at The New Yorker’s fall festival. Because that would mean I still possess the capacity to be disappointed by white people, and I do not. I…
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New Art-School Grad Has Already Landed New Yorker Cover
Loveis Wise Is in Rare Company Seeing No Diversity, Philly Papers Drop Ad Agency Harold Jackson Leaving Philadelphia for Houston Report on Massive Puerto Rico Toll Overshadowed Outrage Builds on Separation of Families Spanish Again the Most Polarizing Language in U.S. ‘We . . . Got the George Takei Assault Wrong’ ‘Asian American’ at 50:…
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Survivor’s Remorse: On Junot Díaz and the Collateral Damage of Trauma
I began this week in tears. Early Monday morning, hot, torrential tears were flowing as if I were in the midst of my last heartbreak—or the one before that, or the one before that. I was reading Junot Díaz’s searingly confessional essay in the New Yorker about confronting and coping with his childhood rape. Like…