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Google’s Cesar Chavez Tribute Draws Fools Out One Day Early
By Arturo R. García Google’s front page display for March 31 honoring civil rights leader Cesar Chavez A deeply religious man who worked tirelessly to help the less fortunate was publicly acknowledged...
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Controlling Portions, Controlling Pregnancies: Race And Class Panic In New...
Poster for New York City’s “Real Cost of Teen Pregnancy” campaign. Via NYC.gov By Guest Contributor Sayantani DasGupta This month, New York City launched a new campaign called “The True Cost of Teen...
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Meanwhile, On TumblR: English As A Language of Conquest And Two Stories of...
By Andrea Plaid Via www.goodreads.com. Racializens, my Feminist Wire cohort Monica Torres wants to extend her deepest appreciation for all of you loving the hell out of her excerpted post about the...
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Meanwhile On TumblR: Come Get The “Accidental Racist” And Wage-Gap Realities...
By Andrea Plaid Via thenewestrant.com To paraphrase bell hooks, like feminism, allyship is something you do, not who you are. And Racializens gave a lot of love to Shakesville’s Melissa McEwan, who...
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Retrolicious: Mad Men 6.1: “Doorways”
Hosted by Tami Winfrey Harris and Andrea Plaid ***TRIGGER WARNING: Rape*** Don Draper has a sad about being an “Organization Man.” Mad Men‘s season premiere got Tami and me–and guest ‘tabler Renee...
View ArticleOpen Thread: Central Park Five
Watch Central Park Five Trailer on PBS. See more from Central Park Five. We’ll have a review of Ken and Sarah Burns’ documentary Central Park Five up soon, but if you caught it last night on PBS, feel...
View ArticleThe New York Times Refuses To Drop The I-Word (VIDEO)
By Andrea Plaid You would think that 70,000 people asking for the exact same thing would change someone’s mind, right? Not if you’re the New York Times. On April 23, members of Applied Research...
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Friday Foolishness: Selena Gomez Is Wearing A Bindi?
By Andrea Plaid Image via The Aerogram. Usually, this space at this time is reserved for the Racialicious Crush Of The Week. But sometimes we gotta keep our Fridays light by giving some side-eye to...
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Friday WTF?: Whole Foods Says Speaking Spanish Is “Unsafe” For Its Working...
By Andrea Plaid Whole Foods, the grocery-store signifier of the “personal is political” and social responsibility, has been busted for some sketchy business practices antithetical to its progressive...
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Why Can’t Black Women Claim Sluttiness, Again?
By Guest Contributor Laura K. Warrell In the June issue of Glamour magazine, spunky rock chick Pink declares herself a “reformed slut,” describing her brush with whorishness as an “unsophisticated”...
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Quoted: The problem with “Devious Maids” goes far beyond Hollywood
The cast of Devious Maids via Lifetime Six years ago, I had a deal with Lifetime Television to develop my bestselling novel, The Dirty Girls Social Club, as a TV series. It soon became clear that...
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Why Sebastien de la Cruz Should Be Respected and Protected
By Guest Contributor Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez; originally published at Feminist Wire To be in proximity to any NBA franchise during a championship run, for lots of kids in our sports obsessed culture,...
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Racialicious Crush Of The Week: Ana Castillo
By Andrea Plaid Ana Castillo. Image via niutoday.info Because sometimes it’s time to respect a foremother of a movement, so I’m gonna talk about one of my favorite feminist crushes, Ana Castillo....
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Roundup: Reactions to Stop and Frisk Ruling
Yesterday, federal judge Shira A. Scheindlin ruled that the stop-and-frisk policies of the New York City Police Department violate the constitutional rights of the city’s residents. (Read the full...
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Meanwhile, On TumblR: “Serving Up Black Frida Kahlo Realness”
By Andrea Plaid It’s the second time I’ve seen a photo like this. One of my favorite Tumblrs, black beauty, featured photos submitted by Tumblrer Indigo, who dressed in an homage to legendary artist...
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Meanwhile, On TumblR: Junot Diaz Goes Graphic Novel
“Nilda,” from the upcoming deluxe edition of Junot Diaz’s “This Is How You Lose Her.” Image Credit: Jamie Hernandez via Entertainment Weekly. Y’all know we crush hard on author Junot Diaz around these...
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Voices: March For Immigrant Dignity And Respect
By Arturo R. García About 3,000 people attended the March for Immigrant Dignity and Respect in San Diego, Calif. All pictures by Arturo R. García. On Saturday, thousands of immigrants and immigration...
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More Than 200 Immigration Advocates & Lawmakers Arrested During Demonstration
By Arturo R. García Saturday’s March for Immigrant Respect & Dignity was indeed a prelude to a bigger demonstration on the National Mall on Tuesday that drew thousands of protesters calling upon...
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Quoted: OC Weekly On The Latin Grammys Marginalizing Mexico
Latin Grammy nominee Aleks Syntek, via Facebook. First, the caveat: ANY entertainment industry awards show never gets anything right and really serves as an excuse for bigwigs to have one giant,...
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Western Privilege and Anti-black Racism in Panama
By Guest Contributor Aliyya Swaby Residents of Colón, Panama, have been fighting to get the government to renovate their dilapidated colonial-era buildings, with little success. Images by the author....
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