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In case you haven’t heard, Captain America is a Nazi now and fanboys everywhere are losing their shit. Last week, issue 1 of Nick Spencer and Jesus Sais’ new comic series Captain America: Steve Rogers hit the shelves of comic stores everywhere and shocked fans across the nation when, in the final panel, Captain…
Start Article Post Content Hollywood is no stranger to stereotype casting. “Scandal’s” Kerry Washington and “Master of None” star and executive producer Aziz Ansari have come face to face with this reality on multiple occasions throughout their careers. The actors swapped nightmare stories during a sit-down for Variety‘s fourth season of “Actors on Actors.” “Before ‘Scandal,’ I was actually…
Image caption “Mahalet and the honeymilk,” by Meg Griffiths, from the series Honeymilk End K2 Item Layout JoomlaWorks “K2” (v2.7.0) | Learn more about K2 at http://getk2.org //MAIN CONTENT SIDEBAR RIGHT //SIDEBAR RIGHT SPOTLIGHT 2 //SPOTLIGHT 2 In late March, Eater published a Hillary Dixler essay, “How Gullah Cuisine Has Transformed Charleston Dining.” The title was clickbait….
Three white high school football players at Dietrich High School in Idaho have been charged in the October 2015 rape of their black disabled teammate. The alleged victim’s family filed a $10 million lawsuit against the school. Here’s what you need to know. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post) When a teammate held out his arms after football practice…
Young creatives are using social media to shape the culture we consume. But what happens when they don’t own their work? By DOREEN ST. FELIX Kayla Newman started her Vine account to record herself commenting on the minutia and mundanity of high school life. This was nearly two years ago, when she was 16. For…
gallery js end gallery js start of gallery code fullscreen A little bit more than four months from opening, a thin film of dust covers everything. Only a handful of exhibits have been installed. Still, it is already clear that the National Museum of African American History and Culture is stunning. A Smithsonian more than…
Over the Christmas holidays, I made the decision to forgo perming my hair and go natural. For me, it felt like if I was ever going to come to terms with my black womanhood, then I had to confront my fears. When the hairdresser swivelled the chair so I could see myself in the mirror,…
Photo Harriet Tubman, an abolitionist who helped to rescue slaves, in the late 1800s. Credit H. B. Lindsley/Library of Congress WASHINGTON — The Treasury Department will announce on Wednesday afternoon that Harriet Tubman, an African-American who ferried thousands of slaves to freedom, will replace the slaveholding Andrew Jackson on the center of a new $20…
The hope was to eventually identify the slaves’ descendants. By the end of December, one of Mr. Cellini’s genealogists felt confident that she had found a strong test case: the family of the boy, Cornelius Hawkins. Broken Promises There are no surviving images of Cornelius, no letters or journals that offer a look into his…
Buzzfeed’s video division put a video into the world on Tuesday titled “Questions Black People Have for Black People” More than half a day later, Twitter is still ablaze with people tearing it apart. First, watch it: Or, if you’d rather not, here’s a taste of the kind of stereotypes it dabbled in. Tried that…