Kenneth Eng, a self-proclaimed Asian supremecist, wrote a racist tirade about why he hates black people. The article was published on Feb. 23 in Asian Week — “The Voice of Asian America” — a San Francisco-based news weekly.
When I first heard about it, I thought maybe dude was just writing satirical commentary and everyone [...]

So Marty at last got a little loving from a little gold man. What a night. The stars all glittered like the bright shiny diamonds on their necks and ears. The paparazzi exhausted themselves in an orgy of lucrative depravity. And what were we up to? We compiled a digital notebook of some of the [...]

Oh, how Hollywood is all a-titter and Vanity Fair is king… Here’s our staff’s version of the night of the little gold men.

One of the best records of the year cannot be found in stores. It’s not available on iTunes. Last Tuesday, Tim Fite released “Over the Counter Culture” exclusively on his Web site. For free. (See his “Camouflage” video below):
Fife is signed to Anti-, the record label currently responsible for releases from such stalwarts as Tom [...]

 

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The Daily News springs a you’ve-gotta-be-kidding-me on us as Black History Month (est. 1976) wraps up:
In a revelation that will stun the nation, the Rev. Al Sharpton, one of America’s most powerful black leaders, has unearthed a shattering family secret—his ancestors were slaves owned by relatives of the late South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond.
Had this [...]

Thomas Friedman, mustachioed windbag and American foreign policy apologist extraordinaire, is coming to speak at Pop and Politics host-university USC this coming Monday evening. To what do we owe this pleasure? It seems we are yet another stop on his seemingly endless campaign of pimping his bestselling ode to globalization, ‘The World Is Flat’ - [...]

I sign the release that says they don’t have to exchange me for a prisoner if I become a hostage in a riot. Um, okay.
The guard tells me the inmates are grouped according to their race or security level. Segregating inmates is illegal except in emergencies, and for the past year—ever since last February’s [...]

Pushing Off
“Just like in the movies, there’s an old dark phone in each cubicle. I sit and think: 75-to-life.”

After a 5-year study in 11 countries, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the International Organization for Standardization have concluded that the above sign has the ability to scare the sh*t out of anybody, regardless of linguistic, cultural, religious, international or planetary differences.
Admittedly, a major improvement on the three-cornered trefoil.
Still, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is unphased. [...]

Minorities are greatly underserved in the field of journalism. Myself being a minority journalist, I was a little upset to find out last week that more than 20 urban journalism programs that attract minority high school students to journalism and give them training would no longer carry racial preferences as a result of a class-action [...]

Thousands descended on Rancho Cienega in the Crenshaw neighborhood of South LA to kickstart the Barack Obama 2008 campaign yesterday. Even ex-Doors drummer John Densmore was there and performed an electrifying set with a few percussionists and a sax player to get the crowd amped.

 

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An appeals court ruling yesterday held that foreign prisoners detained at Gitmo have no constitutional right to challenge their detention in federal courts, the most basic of judicial rights, ensuring that you can’t be simply disappeared, ie, snatched from bed, thrown in a cell somewhere, and left to rot.
It was a split decision and [...]

Bob in Los Feliz gave me the best haircut of my life. But it came at a high price. I had to spend two hours with the man.
Though he’s clearly a hair perfectionist, he spent more time talking about his hair styling prowess and worldwide acclaim than he did actually cutting my locks.

While Bob ran [...]

Tonight the film “HipHop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes,” for which the banner ad is blinking up there at the top of the site, is airing on PBS. I guess it pretty much makes me a shill if I say it’s worth seeing. But it is. It’s well worth seeing!
Filmmaker and hip-hop lover Byron Hurt, after [...]

So some computer geeks have made a campaign headquarters for John Edwards in Second Life, the virtual expanding multi-player transnational web game. And okay, we get Wonkette’s point— that Second Life is different and no substitute for “first life.” But she goes at it hard. Second Life, she says, is an “online role-playing dorkfest” [...]