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The News Media’s Public Disservice in Boston
by Sally Kohn on April 21 2013, 8:56AM
In moments like these, people make assumptions. It becomes all the more important for media to challenge those assumptions and keep our prejudices in check. In that, too many failed.
Topics: Boston Bombing, Media
by Imara Jones on March 20 2013, 8:23AM
Economic cheerleading of late would lead you to believe happy days are here again. Not for everybody.
Topics: Economy
Women of Color Activists Take On 2 Chainz’s ‘Birthday Song’
by Jorge Rivas on December 14 2012, 2:33PM
Women of color deconstruct the radio hit “Birthday Song” by 2 Chainz and Kanye West. And they’re doing something about it.
Topics: Arts & Culture, /NOW Blog
Oprah and Her Natural Hair Cover O Magazine
by Julianne Hing on August 2 2012, 12:05PM
It’s a first for the talk show host in her magazine’s 12-year history.
Topics: Arts & Culture, Media, /NOW Blog
Sepia Mutiny’s Closure Is a Reminder: Blogging While Brown Ain’t Easy
by Jamilah King on April 12 2012, 10:00AM
The blogespehre was once a place where people of color could go to escape the racism of mainstream media. But the same forces that created online opportunities for bloggers of color are now devouring them.
Topics: Media
5 Signs You’re Acting Like a White Guy (Or, How To Not Be Gene Marks)
by W. Kamau Bell on December 19 2011, 9:07AM
You need not be white or a guy to act a fool in public, says stand-up comedian W. Kamau Bell. So here are some warning signals that you might be “getting all Gene Marksy up in here.”
Topics: Media
‘If I Were A Poor Black Kid’ Dude Responds to Baratunde Thurston’s Satirical Letter
by Jorge Rivas on December 15 2011, 2:23PM
Despite all the controversy, Gene Marks still thinks that if poor black kids in Philadelphia study hard and apply to the best schools they’ll turn out fine.
Topics: Media, /NOW Blog, Schools & Youth
If I Were A White, Male Middle Aged Forbes Columnist…
by Akiba Solomon on December 14 2011, 10:11AM
The lesson of Gene Marks’s “If I Were a Poor Black Kid” column: If you don’t have firsthand knowledge of structural inequality, you have to put in time and rigorous research to write about it. Or you could just stay in your lane.
Topics: Akiba Solomon, Media, Schools & Youth
Black Website Shows Us the Right and Wrong Ways to Talk HIV
by Akiba Solomon on December 6 2011, 10:04AM
Loop21.com gave HIV/AIDS lots of play on World AIDS day. Two of its stories show how far we’ve come and where we still need to go.
Topics: Akiba Solomon, HIV/AIDS, Health
5 of the Dumbest Things Said About the Occupy Wall Street Movement
by Jorge Rivas on October 11 2011, 11:28AM
It was a given that conservative pundits would fear-monger around the Occupy Wall Street Movement. But we’ve rounded up their most outlandish insults.
Iman: Italian Vogue ‘Might As Well Have Called Those’ Slave Earrings ‘N— Earrings’
by Jorge Rivas on August 24 2011, 3:55PM
Italian Vogue editor Franca Sozzani has since apologized for the “inconvenience.”
Topics: Arts & Culture, Media
Chicago CBS Affiliate Makes 4-yr.-old Sound Like a Thug, Says Sorry
by Jorge Rivas on August 1 2011, 12:01PM
Turns out the kid who supposedly bragged about wanting to have a gun when he grows up really said he wants to be a police officer. The station acknowledges “mistakes were made.”
Topics: Media
You Maaad!—How Fox News Uses Hip-Hop to Create Race Panics
by Adriel Luis, Nico Cary on July 19 2011, 9:47AM
How the network uses black rappers to scare white parents, court their kids and make millions.
Topics: Arts & Culture, Media
Jose Antonio Vargas Talks American Identity on Rachel Maddow Show
by Asraa Mustufa on June 28 2011, 2:09PM
The Pulitzer Prize winning journalist is quickly becoming a gamechanger in the debate over the Dream Act.
Topics: Immigration, Media
Jose Antonio Vargas Came Out as Undocumented, NOT “Illegal”
by Mónica Novoa on June 23 2011, 9:43AM
So why do so many of his journalism colleagues still insist on using the slur to describe him? Monica Novoa explains why it is long past time for news media to Drop the I-Word.
Topics: Drop the I-Word, Immigration, Media
White Male Bloggers Want Everything But the Burden of Oppression
by Akiba Solomon on June 16 2011, 10:00AM
There’s a historical precedent for Internet hoaxers Tom MacMaster and Bill Graber. And trust that there will be more to come.
Topics: Akiba Solomon, Gender & Sexuality, Global Affairs
The NY Post Makes DSK’s Alleged Rape Victim an AIDS Predator
by Akiba Solomon on May 20 2011, 12:20PM
In its lust for a salacious scoop, Rupert Murdoch’s chronically race-baiting tabloid has made both the alleged victim and her community into the villains.
Topics: Akiba Solomon, DSK Rape Case, Health, Media
Students Push to Get Satoshi Kanazawa Fired in London
by Jamilah King on May 19 2011, 10:27AM
Meanwhile, angry Psychology Today readers are moving to have the evolutionary psychologist dropped for his racist research.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality
The Pseudoscience of “Black Women Are Less Attractive”
by Akiba Solomon on May 17 2011, 12:33PM
A London School of Economics psychology professor creates bar graphs to show how black women are uglier than women of other races. Psychology Today publishes it. Sigh.
Topics: Akiba Solomon, Media
CNN Anchor Don Lemon Talks About Being Gay, Black and on TV
by Akiba Solomon on May 16 2011, 11:30AM
He told the Times that he couldn’t write a feel-good black memoir without being honest and challenging what he says is one of the community’s biggest taboos.
Topics: Akiba Solomon, Gender & Sexuality, Media
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