An African Election: Two Weeks ‘Til Premiere, One Week ‘Til Pre-Screening
We are so thrilled that Racializens are getting into what we and National Black Consortium’s (NBPC) AfroPoP.TV are posting in preparation for the public-media premiere of Jarreth Merz’s An African...
View ArticleSpeaking: Kenyon College *Tonight*, Ohio State, Smith College
Slide from the talk, taken from the “Top of the World” music video. I’m knee-deep into the Knight Fellowship (more on that in October) so I’ve been scarce around here lately. But I did want to post...
View ArticleAn African Election: Premiere Night!
The public-media premiere for Jarreth Merz’s An African Election is finally here! So, what’s happening tonight? As you may know, we’re really hyped about the people WGBH, Boston’s public TV station–in...
View ArticleRacialicious And Maysles Cinema Present The Loving Story
Image via blackfilm.com. Perhaps Shonda Rimes referred to the wrong interracial relationship in last week’s Scandal. For the sexual/romantic agency–as problematic as it is–that both Olivia Pope and...
View ArticleSite Break + Site Is Down!
Hello Racializens! Some of you have noticed the technical difficulties happening on the site–we’re working to fix it, but with the holiday ridiculousness, it’s been slow-going. We were also planning to...
View ArticleHuffington Post Live: Simplifying Emancipation
Hey All – Racialicious is still on break, but I was on Huffington Post Live with Janell Ross (HuffPost Black Voices and Latino Voices Senior Reporter), Professor Jelani Cobb (Director of the Institute...
View ArticleCall For Submissions: ¿Y Tu Abuela, Donde Está?: Multi-dimensional...
The Migration of Afro-Latin@s. Via williamsbsu.wordpress.com “The Black and White Dialogue on race and culture in the United States has consistently ignored the existence of more than 150 million...
View ArticleAnnouncement: Maysles Cinema And Harry Belafonte Kick Off King Screenings
By Andrea Plaid Like White Dog that came after it, certain zeitgeist-capturing movies like King: A Filmed Record From Montgomery To Memphis simply disappear. Unlike White Dog, King disappeared on...
View ArticleTransgender Studies Quarterly Plans To Kick Ass With The Help Of...
By Andrea Plaid More info from their Kickstarter page: Transgender Studies has far-reaching implications across many academic disciplines, including not only gender and women’s studies, sexuality...
View ArticleAnnouncement: Yuri Kochiyama: Passion For Justice Screening, Panel Discussion...
By Andrea Plaid When Dr. Brittney Cooper started the #paulawontcookit hashtag during the height of Black Twitter dragging Paula Deen for her controversial comments—and my undergrad college ace Dr. Lisa...
View ArticleAnnouncement: On Joining The Stream
Former host Derrick Ashong and myself, with show guest Grover Norquist. Now, we normally don’t publicize things about our personal lives or jobs on Racialicious. However, this time is a bit different....
View ArticleAnnouncements: A Mural Goes Up In Harlem And A Goddess Walk
Photo courtesy of Picture the Homeless. Just got this last-minute invite to a really great event going on in Harlem, if you’re in town later today. Picture The Homeless (PTH), a grassroots...
View ArticleEvent Announcement: The Page Turner Literary Festival, October 5, Brooklyn, NY
Our friends at the Asian American Writer’s Workshop are going all out for the Page Turner Literary Festival, a *free* event in Brooklyn. While I would love to attend the panel with Marjorie M. Liu on...
View ArticleThe Hack is Over!
Finally! After weeks of trying to rid 8 years of archives of malicious, Ugg boot selling code, we are back to normal. Apologies for the long absence and delay. All should be well, but if you spot...
View Article[EVENT] Theorizing the Web ’14: “Race and Social Media”
If you are in Brooklyn (or the New York Area) this Friday and Saturday (the 25th and 26th), please come and check out Theorizing the Web! It’s an amazingly geeky conference that discusses the internet...
View ArticleA Quick Reminder About the Racialicious Project [Editor’s Note]
Just a little housekeeping. Racialicious has been in effect for more than eight years. As a result a lot of people (writers, readers, editors) have come and gone. It is easy to forget in the current...
View ArticleEvent: The Afrofuturist Affair in Philadelphia, PA
This looks so, so cool: This year, The AfroFuturist Affair Annual Charity & Costume Ball has expanded space-time from one evening to a month-long celebration of Afrofuturism. In addition to the 4th...
View ArticleJanet Mock and Maria Teresa Kumar Launch MSNBC Shows
Following in the footsteps of trailblazer Melissa Harris Perry, two more braincrushes just launched shows on MSNBC’s Shift streaming media brand. Maria Teresa Kumar, co-founder of Voto Latino with...
View ArticleReddit AMA: James Mickens on Being Black and STEM
Enjoying MLK Day? Please join us over at Reddit at 2 PM ET where we will talk to James Mickens: On MLK Day (1/19) at 2 p.m. computer scientist James Mickens will be doing a Reddit “Ask Me Anything”...
View ArticleEndangered by the Moving Image: The Criminalization of Black and Brown Bodies...
This looks amazing, happening in NYC on February 1st at the Museum of the Moving Image: Do media depictions of African Americans influence the way they are treated by the police, the criminal justice...
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