Volkswagen's Racist Instagram Ad Is One Big Yikes
Volkswagen has issued an apology statement after the company posting on their Instagram page an ad that showed a white hand pushing a black man around a parked VW Golf.
Volkswagen has issued an apology statement after the company posting on their Instagram page an ad that showed a white hand pushing a black man around a parked VW Golf.
Queen Latifah, Vanessa Williams, Angie Stone, Aaliyah and Joi were among the artists who sang the lead track from 1995's "Panther."
In this, the age of the global pantry, ingredients like turmeric, tahini, and gochujang have finally shaken off their hitherto "exotic" status. But it's white cooking personalities like Alison Roman and many of the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen stars who have had viral success using them.
How African American Vernacular English made it to the internet.
From Black Voices to MySpace to Instagram, black creativity has defined social media from the start.
Despite the great scientific strides in diabetes care, the rate of amputations across the country grew by 50% between 2009 and 2015. Diabetics undergo 130,000 amputations each year, often in low-income and underinsured neighborhoods. Black patients lose limbs at a rate triple that of others.
In his apology video, the TikToker read the "50 most hateful" comments he received on the video, promising viewers that he was absorbing the feedback.
This is an All-American story about two kids from the east side of Baltimore.
American movies, like Netflix's new release 'Extraction,' use a yellow filter when they're set in places like India and Mexico. Here's why it keeps popping up, and why it might be making you uncomfortable.
This is what happens when we value certain lives more than others.
Ahmaud Arbery would've been 26 today, and I've been thinking about how sometimes the traits we admire most in our kids are the same traits used to mark them for death.
In Chicago, 70 of the city's 100 first recorded victims of COVID-19 were black. Their lives were rich, and their deaths cannot be dismissed as inevitable. Immediate factors could — and should — have been addressed.
State representative Sarah Anthony says she wanted to highlight failure of policing after armed white protesters demonstrated.
An analysis of five major cities by BuzzFeed News found that ZIP codes with more cases per person tended to be lower income, have more elderly residents and be communities of color.
"Citizen's arrest" has been part of the Georgia penal code for decades — although most people know it as a comic feature of the Andy Griffith Show.
Sometimes you really have to go back in the past just to prove your mother wrong.
For "Blood Quantum" director Jeff Barnaby, record unemployment and rampant disease are nothing new: "It's the way Native people have always lived."
"We know that this is a weird time… [but] death threats over Chinese takeout are definitely not the way anyone should be handling any situation, ever."
On any given day east Portland is 18 F hotter than the city's west side. Coronavirus orders will make it even harder to escape.
Ramon Ward was exonerated thanks to a new system of reinvestigating old cases. He hopes he's not the last.
"Situations like this have escalated into black men being shot all across the country," Dr. Armen Henderson said.
Public officials lament the way that the coronavirus is engulfing black communities. The question is, what are they prepared to do about it?
The deportation of Native Americans westward in the 1830s was fueled by busy bankers and unchecked avarice.
No, the coronavirus is not an "equalizer." Black people are being infected and dying at higher rates. Here's what Milwaukee is doing about it — and why governments need to start releasing data on the race of COVID-19 patients.
iPledge, a government compliance program, makes the barrier to obtain Accutane unreasonably high, especially for women of color.
As bigots blame them for the coronavirus and President Trump labels it the "Chinese virus," many Chinese-Americans say they are terrified of what could come next.
Approval for testing for COVID-19 is particularly vulnerable to implicit biases, doctors say.
Kerry Washington on Beyoncé, Ta-Nehisi Coates on Kendrick Lamar, Oprah Winfrey on Toni Morrison, Issa Rae on "Scandal," and 31 other prominent black artists on the work that inspires them most.
Performance reviews are part of every job — but when you're the only Black guy in the office, they can leave a terrible aftertaste.
As the coronavirus outbreak sweeps through New York City, a Korean-American observes a rising tide of anti-Asian sentiment.
With dim sum restaurant closures and empty senior centers, some worry Brooklyn's Sunset Park may never recover.
Being a spectator at the men's evil bullshit parade every time I sat down for a haircut sucked. What was worse, maybe, was that my silence implicated me every time. And I let it.
Why did my IMDb page say I made an appearance on "Brooklyn Nine-Nine"?
"Actors speaking Shakespeare's words have begun to resemble the nation."
In a first-of-its-kind survey, we asked the most disenfranchised people in America who they would vote for and what matters to them.
If you wear one here, you are gullible, selfish, foreign, sick and asking for attention. But in Asia, face masks mean something else altogether.
It's easy to correct facts. It's much harder to correct a worldview that consistently ignores and distorts the role of African Americans and race in our history.
Black voters opted for Biden because they have no faith that white voters will do the right thing and vote for a true progressive.
Pornhub will stream the documentary "Shakedown," about LA's black, queer strip club scene from director Leilah Weinraub.
Amazon's "Hunters" is the network's latest botched attempt at telling Jewish stories.
Guardian analysis finds that places where black and Latino population is growing by the largest numbers experienced the majority of closures and could benefit Republicans.
Montgomery bus boycotters had a secret weapon: cars
The league is experiencing a downswing for African-American head-coaching candidates, who often see few opportunities and even fewer second chances.
Ezekiel Mitchell and his team have designs on turning him into the next Dwayne Johnson. But first, he needs to become the first black bull-rider to win a title in 38 years.
Jobie Hill has visited 700 former residences. Many have been abandoned. Some have become storage space. Others are B&Bs.
TikTok's recommendation system can create a biased "feedback loop," this researcher said.
For decades, the artist's Saturday Evening Post covers championed a retrograde view of America. This is the story of the politically turbulent 1960s, a singular painting and Rockwell's unlikely change of heart.
Once a source of shame, but I now say it proudly: bad English is my heritage.
Mofokeng, who died in January, made work that waded through themes of history and land, and helped shape the course of South African photography.
In three racism lawsuits filed against Tesla, the company has tried to convince judges that as many workers' cases as possible should be moved to private arbitration. But Google, Facebook, Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Microsoft and eBay, among others, have begun to relax their arbitration policies.
In 1956, Life magazine sent the photographer to Shady Grove, Alabama. For years afterward, most of the photos he took there were thought to have been lost.
How social breakdown killed the American dream.
Donald Trump's senior adviser has been the true driving force behind this Administration's racist agenda. How far will he go?
"The experience of being stopped and frisked just for being transgender was so traumatic for me. I was afraid of walking down the street."
No amount of new technology can fix algorithmic bias. But changing how we hire people will.
As the world continues to panic about the epidemic, many people are expressing their fear through discrimination.
For seven decades, India has been held together by its constitution, which promises equality to all. But Narendra Modi's BJP is remaking the nation into one where some people count as more Indian than others.
"It sounds like you're saying that I am your business partner. I'm only going to accept that you all stopped in while you were campaigning in South Carolina."
Interracial boxing matches were banned in Texas. One man slugged his way into the ring anyway. The never-before-told full story of the fight that changed history.
A nonprofit group encouraged states to use mathematical formulas to try to eliminate racial inequities. Now, it says the tools have no place in criminal justice.