MTV Asks: Was that Mountain Dew Ad Really Racist?
By Maurice Bobb Rap ads are in danger. After Dr. Boyce Watkins wrote a scathing post, “Mountain Dew Releases Arguably the Most Racist Commercial in History,” which appeared onYourBlackWorld Wednesday (May 1), alleging that a new commercial featuring Felicia the Goat, directed by Tyler, the Creator under his Wolf Haley alias, is rife with racist images and [...]
Oakland Officer Who Fatally Shot Teen Will Not Face Charges
Alameda County prosecutors announced Tuesday that an Oakland police officer will not face criminal charges in the May fatal shooting of 18-year-old Alan Blueford. Alan DeWayne Blueford was an 18-year-old senior at Skyline High School and was scheduled to graduate in June. The officer said Blueford was shot because he pulled gun on officers, but witnesses [...]
See, Not All Black Men Can Jump: Team U.S.A. Devastates Nigerian Basketball Team, Wins by a Record 83 Points
Basketball is a game of skill, precision, and endurance, not genetics. There are those who tend to adhere to the stereotype that black men are just better at basketball than everyone else. Somehow, the idea that the skills required for basketball are just evenly distributed throughout all black men has taken hold, mainly because most [...]
Dr. Boyce: Why Are You So Insistent that Black Men Ain’t Sh*t?
by Dr. Boyce Watkins, KultureKritic.com Typically, I tend to let the higher power guide me to write about the things that touch my life. Most recently, the death of my older brother (technically my uncle) really made me reflect on the struggles of black men and the areas where we go wrong. But ironically, [...]
Why Won’t Urban Media Let the ‘Down Low’ Stigma Go?
Writing at the Huffington Post, Deron Dalton says that down-low men do exist in urban communities, but we should remember that they’re not the only type of men who have s*x with other men. Steel River is a new Web series featured in Atlanta-based online broadcasting network Signal23TV’s lineup. It’s not slated to launch [...]
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