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Happy Black History Month, everyone! Here’s how you can help shut down the ignorant haters, just like John Boyega, or celebrate with the rest of the internet.

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Ranking Celebrity Responses to #OscarsSoWhite

Post author By Karishma
Post date Monday, February 1st, 2016
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Oh man, everything is wonderful and terrible. The Internet hate fuel cycle has been in overdrive this week thanks to #OscarsSoWhite making the rounds, allowing us to add names to our Celebrity Shitlist.

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PoC News in America: Best of 2015

Post author By Karishma
Post date Tuesday, January 5th, 2016
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Another year has passed, and we have lots of writing from around the Internet to recap the highs and lows of news in 2015.

Tags #BlackLivesMatter, 2015, Diaspora, diversity in film, feministing, indigenous rights, people of color in film, PoC News, poc news in america, queer films, racism, sexism, Tangerine

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This week we’re counting down the minutes until Star Wars and enjoying everything John Boyega is doing. In news, we have big updates about Daniel Holtzclaw, affirmative action, and a movie that surprised us with a trailer release last night.

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This week, our hearts are with the victims of terrorism in Paris, Beirut, and elsewhere around the world.

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This weekend, we didn’t watch Saturday Night Live because seriously, fuck that guy.

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This past Monday was unofficially Indigenous Peoples’ Day so let’s start with the people we are trying to recognize and their feelings about the day.

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Busy week this week with groundbreaking Emmy wins, to the Papal visit, to this moment of peak whiteness, and Beyonce slaying at everything because she’s Beyonce. Let’s get to it.

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Viola Davis, Cultivation Theory, and the 2015 #Emmy Awards

Post author By Cate Young
Post date Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015
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I won’t pretend I didn’t cry this morning. I didn’t watch the Emmys live last night, so waking up to the news that not only did Viola Davis win herself an Emmy (as I predicted back when she de-wigged on primetime), but two other black women, (Regina King for American Crime and Uzo Aduba for Orange is […]

Tags cultivation theory, diversity on tv, emmy awards, Emmy's, feminism, racism, Regina King, representations of women of color, Uzo Aduba, Viola Davis, women of color

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This past week saw the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in the U.S. While the nation mourned, many people of color could not forget the violence and Islamophobia that emerged #afterSeptember11.

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Fear the Walking Dead Drops the Ball

Post author By Moretta
Post date Monday, August 31st, 2015
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This article contains spoilers from the first two episodes of Fear the Walking Dead. Fear the Walking Dead, the new show from the makers of The Walking Dead, debuted last week, and it has become clear that the producers have learned absolutely nothing from outcry over the way black males are featured in the original […]

Tags black characters, black men, fear the walking dead, racism, SPOILERS!, the walking dead, TWD, walking dead

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