Topic: race

Jamie Foxx Basically Admits That He’s Playing The Villain In The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Jamie Foxx teases Spider-Man fans with a tweet about his Halloween costume… More »

Miley Cyrus Was Smart Enough To Not Do Blackface For Her Nicki Minaj Halloween Costume

Who would’ve thought that Miley Cyrus would be the one to show us how to do a proper Halloween costume without being offensive? More »

Did Cloud Atlas Seriously Think They’d Get Away With Putting White Actors In Yellowface?

It probably would’ve been confusing for Warner Bros. to hire Asian actors to portray Jim Sturgess and Tom Hanks‘ characters in the futuristic Cloud Atlas storylines. But not impossible! And that’s where Hollywood has failed once again. More »

Disney’s First Latina Princess Doesn’t Look Like A Latina Princess

Princess Sofia (voiced by white Modern Family actress Ariel Winter) has fair skin and blue eyes, and is supposed to be a Latina role model? More »

Nicole Kidman Didn’t Mind Peeing On Zac Efron But Wouldn’t Say The N-Word In The Paperboy

Nicole Kidman didn’t feel comfortable uttering the n-word in The Paperboy because of her son Connor Cruise, she says… but how legitimate an excuse is that, really? More »

Should Mindy Kaling Be Hiring More Female And Minority Writers To Work On Her Show?

Mindy Kaling‘s incredible success has been good for women and minorities for a variety of reasons. The Mindy Project is the first major network sitcom to star a South Asian person of any gender, and the simple fact that her protagonist exists with race as a component, but not the overriding purpose, of her character is quietly revolutionary. The fact that her character is allowed to have flaws, rather than be some sort of “model woman/minority”? Even better. Which is why I was surprised at first when I saw an article titled Does Mindy Kaling Need More Female Writers? More »

Jeffrey Wright Cast As Beetee In Catching Fire, Cue The Racist Tweets

For some reason, fans of The Hunger Games freak out when Lionsgate casts a black actor for a character who everyone just assumed was white. It’s the whole “Lenny Kravitz getting cast as Cinna” deal all over again! More »

Why Would Gabby Douglas Lie About Her Old Gym Being Racist?

Years ago, Gabby Douglas left Excalibur gym after (she now reveals) she was bullied with racist comments. Now the gym says she’s making it all up. But why would an Olympic champion need to lie about this? More »

An Interview With Issa Rae, Creator And Star Of The Misadventures Of Awkward Black Girl

The Misadventures Of Awkward Black Girl is a charming web series that shows what it’s like to be among that underrepresented demographic of women who happen to be both awkward and black. Conceived by writer/actress Issa Rae as a way to provide a good part for herself as well as fill a gap she saw in entertainment programming, it’s one of the few shows I’ve seen in which race is neither the primary focal point (think Tyler Perry movies) nor invisible. With a new season bankrolled by Pharrell Williams‘ new Youtube channel iamOTHER and an increasing amount of media attention, Awkward Black Girl is on the rise. I recently chatted with Issa Rae about everything she has going on right now. More »

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Crushable Quotable: John Cho Explains How Hollywood Keeps Coming Up With New Asian Stereotypes

“For example, the dumb Asian, which is a play on the smart Asian. Or the rapping Asian, which is sort of black Asian, which is a play on the joke, ‘aren’t Asians square?’” More »

You Won’t See Jaden Smith In The First Viral Teaser For After Earth, But You’ll Know What His New Movie Is About

Check out the viral teaser for After Earth, which uses Facebook Timeline to give us an alternate history of human space travel. The biggest mystery of this movie, however, seems to be how Will and Jaden Smith‘s characters are descendants of a white Polish guy. More »

Video: The Misadventures Of Awkward Black Girl Brings Much Needed Diversity To ‘Nerdy Young Woman In The City’ Genre

Here is a show about a young black woman making her way in the world that neither ignores the subject of race, nor makes race the character’s primary defining characteristic. Crazy, right? More »

It’s Time To Stop Making Fun Of White Celebrities For Adopting Black Babies

You’ve all read it: the article that pokes fun at, say, Angelina Jolie, for adopting a bunch of minority children because it’s “trendy.” Maybe you’ve read it on this very website (if so, I’m sorry). Well, guess what? Adopting black babies is not actually trendy at all in America, because racism, and this is a huge problem for children in need of good homes. More »

Video: Here’s What The Girls Extras Do Behind The Scenes On-Set

After shooting the party scene from next week’s Girls episode, the exhausted extras held an impromptu singalong to Cee-Lo Green‘s “F— You.” More »

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