CULTURE Zoe Saldana Apologized for Playing Nina Simone–But It's Too Little, Too Late Abby Jones 05 Aug, 20 “[Nina] deserved better,” Saldana said.
CULTURE Why Should Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively Apologize for Their Plantation Wedding? Keith Baldwin 04 Aug, 20 America’s tendency to romanticize antebellum plantations is at odds with efforts to reckon with our dark past.
CULTURE Can Trump Really Ban TikTok from the US? Should He? Brooke Ivey Johnson 04 Aug, 20 How founded are the concerns about the app’s security?
CULTURE Dear White People: AAVE Is an Actual Dialect, Not Your "Stan Culture" Abby Jones 03 Aug, 20 Using a Black dialect isn’t a meme—it’s cultural appropriation.
CULTURE Meet Nicholas Arnold Schock: The Racist Florida Man Getting Choked Out in a Viral Video Keith Baldwin 03 Aug, 20 The white supremacist Trump fan is back in jail—again—a symbol of everything wrong with America’s prison system.
CULTURE It's Harry Potter's 40th Birthday and J.K. Rowling Still Sucks Abby Jones 31 Jul, 20 We can celebrate the Boy Who Lived while still advocating for transgender rights.
CULTURE "The Ellen DeGeneres Show": Sexual Misconduct and Ellen's Full Apology Keith Baldwin 31 Jul, 20 Ellen DeGeneres’ apology comes as allegations of sexual misconduct are being leveled against the show’s top executives.
CULTURE Megan Thee Stallion and the Memeification of Black Female Suffering Abby Jones 30 Jul, 20 After being shot in her feet earlier this month, Megan Thee Stallion saw her pain turned into Internet memes—a trend that Black women know all too well.
CULTURE Who Is Frankie MacDonald and Why Is He Always on the Front Page of Reddit? Dan K 30 Jul, 20 “BE PREPARED.”