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Artist Creates Zimmerman Portrait with Skittles
A Denver artist has created a portrait of Florida shooting suspect George Zimmerman using more than 12,000 Skittles — the candy that 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was carrying when Zimmerman fatally shot...
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Adidas Cancels Release of Controversial Shackle Sneaker
Adidas faced heavy criticism after releasing an image of its new JS Roundhouse Mid sneakers on its Facebook page, with some people likening the look to slave chains and prison shackles. “Got a sneaker...
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Obama's (Black?) Mama
As Barack Obama campaigned for the presidency in 2008, critics charged that he was not “black” enough – that is, that his ancestry did not lead back to US slavery. As the son of a Kenyan man and white...
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Andrea Plaid, Associate Editor of Racialicious: The TFW Interview
By Darnell L. Moore and Aishah Shahidah Simmons Racialicious is one of the hottest race and pop culture blog sites to emerge in the social media world, thanks to the blog’s Owner/Editor, hip-hop...
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Phantasmagoria; or, The World is a Haunted Plantation
By Selamawit D. Terrefe This year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Annual Festival debuted a “holographic” performance by the late Tupac Amaru Shakur. Rather than the deployment of a hologram, the...
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Bait Car
By Tria Andrews Maybe to you crime will always be black and white. Maybe because you’ve worked hard and have something to show for that work. Maybe because you’ve never gone hungry or, worse yet, known...
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Louder Than the Dark: Toward an Acoustics of Suffering
By Nicholas Brady “Fuckin pig get shot 300 men will search for me My brother get popped And don’t no one hear the sound Don’t no one hear the rounds, ooh, sound Don’t no one hear the shells, ooh,...
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Princess Sofia and Barack Obama: Why I Must Choose Accordingly
For the students enrolled in Latino/a Pop at UT Austin, Fall 2012. Is it a coincidence that Disney launched the promotional campaign for its first Hispanic Princess Sofia weeks before the 2012...
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Voting as a Radical Act
By: Isaiah M. Wooden and Darnell L. Moore In a different presidential election year, 2004, Comedy Central’s ever-popular sketch series, Chapelle’s Show, featured a boundlessly funny segment called, “I...
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Census Bureau Rethinks Ways To Measure Race
Possible revisions to how the decennial census asks questions about race and ethnicity have raised concerns among some groups that any changes could reduce their population count and thus weaken their...
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