“The Strain” and faintly racist Middle East drama “Tyrant,” both on FX, along with Halle Berry sci-fi show “Extant,” which apparently is essentially being rebooted, and Showtime’s “Ray Donovan,” which despite a strong cast sometimes comes across as a parody of the white male ...
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His playing reputation was eclipsed by the role he played in 1947 as manager of the Phillies, antagonizing Jackie Robinson by shouting racist epithets and opposing his presence on a major league team on the basis of Robinson's race with unsportsmanlike conduct that proved an embarrassment for...
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In the 1994 episode “Good Cop, Bad Cop,” the sitcomFamily Matterstackled the topic of racial profiling. In the episode, Eddie Winslow (Darius McCrary) is racially profiled by a racist cop during a routine traffic stop. The incident causes friction in the family as Eddie's father Carl ...
Kendi returns to a subject which he illuminated so well in Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America,, asking how we avoid both fatalism and despair in imagining what a future, antiracist version of the United States might look like. Kendi’s answers are ...
and she believes failures of imagination that lead to inequity can be remedied. In place of quasi-utopian gambles that widen wealth gaps and prop up the surveillance state, Benjamin recommends dreaming collective and anti-racist social arrangements into being—a message to galvanize readers ofadrienne...
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We will never forget the surreal momentKanye Westwent off script during NBC’s telethon to raise funds for Hurricane Katrina survivors and called the president racist. “George Bush doesn’t care about Black people,” the Grammy-winning artist said after an impassioned rant critiquing FEMA’s del...