Inside from the Inside

Harry Connick handled the situation perfectly, without the luxury of thinking about the “right” thing to do or say.  While taping a tv show in Australia, he was taken aback and visibly disturbed by a performing group doing a Jackson Five routine in “blackface”.  Apparently, this is not offensive in Australia – but I wonder [...]

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Jason Whitlock of the Kansas City Star does his best to get through to incoming NBA rookies.  This year, he was partnered with Dr. Harry Edwards, sociology professor, to drive home some messages that the players need to receive so that they have a better chance to make the most of their off-court and on-court [...]

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Gustavo Arellano is not your typical Mexican on the street.  You might not recognize his name or face but you may have read his nationally syndicated column, “Ask a Mexican.”  Mr. Arellano is out to educate whites about Hispanics, break the myths and stereotypes associated with Mexican people, and make some bucks doing it. His column [...]

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[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvRO_D5eUOE] Living in Harlem, I’ve been seeing Asian tourists coming uptown for years, and that would little suprise most people. What might get their attention, though, is that many of these sojourners don’t come here just to eat at Sylvia’s, or merely to sit in the back of Abyssinian Baptist Church and hear its choir’s [...]

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Thankfully, it appears that the Six Flags chain has retired last year’s version of its current ad campaign, the extensive run of which led me to write the following post on my blog, MEDIA ASSASSIN. —Harry Allen I’m surprised Racialicious hasn’t picked this apart, yet: Six Flags’ “More Flags, More Fun!” campaign, and its English-gargling [...]

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I don’t know how, until this very morning, I missed the April 15 New York Times profile of white rapper Asher Roth by former VIBE music editor Jon Caramanica (“To Be Young, Rapping and White,” it was near sacrilegously titled), but it was certainly worth the wait.

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I could attach it to my new fat Mac, the one-drive wonder that set me back the outrageous sum of $2795 and it might have done some significantly awesome black and white graphics with MacPaint, one of the two programs it ran, but the laser printer was still an embryo in a university lab somewhere.

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Watch the clip of Susan Boyle from Britain’s Got Talent.   What is it about Susan that makes us just know she’s going to suck? …

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Photographer Delphine Fawundu-Buford is a smart, worldly woman, with a masters degree from NYU and solid commercial assignments. (Her picture of asha bandele and bandele’s daughter, Nisa, forms the cover of the author’s new book, Something Like Beautiful: One Single Mother’s Story, right, for example.) But she’s also quite youthful. So, as she’d not heard [...]

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Long before its scheduled release this coming Friday, March 13, Resident Evil 5 (RE5), the next installment in the immensely popular and influential survival-horror videogame series, started coughing up blood…and controversy: In the narrative, a white protagonist, Chris Redfield, sets down in what appears to be an African or Caribbean country decimated by a mutant [...]

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