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Photo: Amanda Demme HTML COMPONENT MARKUP BEGIN HTML COMPONENT MARKUP END More has changed in the past few years for women who allege rape than in all the decades since the women’s movement began. Consider the evidence of October 2014, when an audience member at a Hannibal Buress show in Philadelphia uploaded a clip of…
Hillary Clinton: We can’t hide from hard truths on race In San Francisco, Hillary Clinton spoke at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors on the need to address systemic racism in the wake of the shooting in Charleston. Thank you! Thank you all so much. It’s great to be here…
CHRIS KEANE/REUTERS ‘We have to also acknowledge we have some serious problems with race and justice and systemic racism which unfortunately is all too often present,’ Hillary Clinton said Thursday at a South Carolina event. WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton declared that “black lives matter” in South Carolina Thursday, as she repeatedly stressed that endemic…
In a campaign speech on Thursday, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Hilary Clinton has let the world know that even “open-minded” white people get scared when they see a black man wearing a hoodie. In her speech, given at South Carolina’s Brookland Baptist Church, Hilary Clinton made a painfully embarrassing pandering attempt towards the black lives matter…
Amy Schumer and Bill Hader in Trainwreck.Photo courtesy Universal Pictures In the new Amy Schumer movie Trainwreck, Bill Hader plays the boyfriend, one who is sweet and charming and good. Despite his virtues, however, Hader can’t hide his shock when he learns that Schumer has slept with an enormous number of men. (He’s not sure…
Mourners stand outside of the Grand Theatre on July 24, 2015 in Lafayette, Louisiana.Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images When news emerged that a middle-aged white man in Lafayette, Louisiana opened fire at a showing of the Amy Schumer vehicle Trainwreck, I immediately had this sinking feeling that the movie choice wasn’t a coincidence—that this was,…
Yenli Wong (Photo Credit: Steve Rosenfield) A neighbor overheard Vanessa and her boyfriend shouting and the sound of something — her body, it turns out — hitting the dorm room wall one night in May 2014. The neighbor reported the fight to a residential assistant, who then reported it to Columbia University officials. As a…
Photo Mourners at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C., in June after nine people were killed there. The killings generated a national outpouring of outrage and grief. Credit Travis Dove for The New York Times Seven years ago, in the gauzy afterglow of a stirring election night in Chicago, commentators dared ask whether the United…
Actor Derek Luke‘s online followers became concerned with the race of his wife recently, and he’s not having it. Luke, 41, addressed the issue via Instagram after he noticed some comments on one of his social media accounts concerned with the fact that his wife is not Black. He has been married to actress Sophia Adella…
When I see news of a black boy being shot dead by police on a playground because he was holding a plastic gun; or a black woman being pushed to the ground with a knee at her neck, then ending up dead while in police custody, I’m not wondering whether a white girl in Arizona…