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That First Lady Michelle Obama is a fashion icon, that she supports young black designers and that she's a trendsetter is not a secret. According to a recent editorial on Elle France, Michelle Obama is also the reason why African-Americans finally know how to “dress up.”
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27 January 2012
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Video game are often blamed for the fact that they are pure escapism, removed from the problems of the real world, lacking sympathy when it comes to life as we know it but I am here to tell you that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is the kind of game that made me think a lot about how to treat racists, about the causes a... |
24 November 2011
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A group of experts from the University of the Basque Country (UBC) says that certain forms of prejudice may in fact be personality traits that are common to a certain group of individuals.
The experts mostly focused their efforts on understanding why certain people have generalized beliefs about other social groups... |
9 November 2011
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A group of investigators led by experts at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) says that their latest study on the influence of culture on human behavior revealed a worrying aspect – the way our culture is set up is poised to instill a little bit of racism and discrimination in everyone of us.
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3 October 2011
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The latest issue of Esquire Magazine comes with an ad for Nivea that has been branded anything from insensitive to racist. The ad in question caused such a fuss that the company even issued a statement to apologize for it – while promising to pull it from the press. Twitter user Septembre Anderson posted a phot... |
19 August 2011
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A new ad for the Dairy Milk Bar has sparked serious outrage in the UK by comparing Naomi Campbell to a chocolate bar. The model is even considering suing Cadbury and parent company Kraft Foods over it. The ad, which you can also see attached to this article, shows a chocolate bar placed on what looks like a bed of di... |
30 May 2011
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If you had a shower gel that turned curvy black women into skinny white ladies, it would probably be the latest offering from Dove. The ad for the Dove VisibleCare Creme Body Wash is under heavy fire on claims that it’s unintentionally racist and offensive.The ad in question, which you can also see attached to ... |
26 May 2011
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In January this year, Bristol Palin confirmed that there was a new man in her life, a pipeline worker from Alaska whom she described as “really great.” His name is Giancinto Paoletti and he’s a racist and a homophobe, it has emerged. Though Bristol would not reveal the name of her beau to the media,... |
12 March 2011
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Over the weekend, a couple accused Dior designer John Galliano of assault and racist attack. In the meantime, a video shot before the incident emerged, in which he says he “loves Hitler.” As such, Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman wants nothing to do with him.
The designer, who has been removed fro... |
1 March 2011
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Beyonce is the cover girl of the latest issue of L’Officiel magazine, the anniversary issue. For the African-inspired shoot, the singer rocks traditional couture and headwear – but is also featured in some shots in blackface, which has gotten people talking of whether this is not offensive. L’Offici... |
24 February 2011
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Actor and singer Jamie Foxx said in a recent interview that members of the LAPD are guilty of racial profiling as far as he’s concerned, often pulling him over for the mere reason that he smiled too widely. Granted, the comments were made on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Digital Spy points out, which could ve... |
11 January 2011
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One of the most anticipated releases of the upcoming year, Kenneth Branagh’s “Thor,” is being boycotted by a hate group called The Council of Conservative Citizens, which has taken serious offense at Idris Elba playing Norse god Heimdall. Of course, fans of the Marvel comics who have kept an eye on ... |
21 December 2010
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The celebrate the reopening of the house’s Shanghai flagship store, Christian Dior commissioned a series of portraits called “Shanghai Dreamers.” Shot by famed photographer Quentin Shih, they’re smack in the middle of a race controversy. The photos, two of which you can also see attached to th... |
7 September 2010
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Capcom is a company that has never courted controversy but one that has had to deal with a critical situation in 2008 when Resident Evil 5, the latest zombie shooter in a long running series, was accused of being racist for the way it portrayed a white civilized protagonist killed black, skirt wearing zombies.Now the... |
26 August 2010
13:21 GMT |
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Earlier this week, reports emerged saying that Oksana Grigorieva, the Russian singer who dated actor and director Mel Gibson for about a year and is the mother of his eighth child, had recorded several conversations in which he was being verbally aggressive to her. At the time, Radar Online vouched it had listened to... |
10 July 2010
04:24 GMT |
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Actor Kal Penn, who starred in hit television shows like “24” and “House M.D.,” but also in the hit feature film “Harold & Kumar” (2004), is speaking out on a recent Time magazine piece written by columnist Joel Stein. In the editorial, called “My Own Private India,” St... |
5 July 2010
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It’s not really that long that the public and the movie industry in general declared that Mel Gibson’s “trespassing” from 2006 was forgiven and a new scandal is already brewing. Recordings of the actor during one of his outbursts in the presence of his ex Oksana Grigorieva have surfaced and on... |
2 July 2010
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In 2006, legendary actor and director Mel Gibson was busted for DUI and unleashed an anti-Semitic tirade that would probably go down in history as the steepest fall in popularity a celebrity ever took. Tapes recently made available show that Gibson doesn’t believe only that “Jews are responsible for all t... |
2 July 2010
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Michelle McGee, also known as “The Bombshell,” is a tattoo model whose main claim to fame is having been the first woman to step forward to reveal a so-called affair with Sandra Bullock’s husband, Jesse James. Currently, aside from getting into verbal spats with Chelsea Handler and launching for-pro... |
10 April 2010
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She’s young, gorgeous, talented and, most importantly, not afraid to speak her mind. “Avatar” star Zoe Saldana graces the cover of Nylon magazine, being the first “brown face” to do so in as much as 7 whole years and, as if to celebrate, breaks the silence on current issues in Hollywood,... |
23 March 2010
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Days after word got out in the media that Jesse James had been cheating on wife Sandra Bullock with a tattoo and occasional glamour model Michelle “Bombshell” McGee, pics of her in a Nazi-themed photoshoot emerged. Shortly after, rumors started to pick up that a similar photo, this time with Jesse James, ... |
23 March 2010
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Most philosophical contemplation involving the notions of racism and artificial intelligence usually takes the form of disputes on whether or not an AI turned sentient should be discriminated against just because it isn't human. Still, it appears that machines might just be the first to racially discriminate bet... |
22 December 2009
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“Hey Hey It’s Saturday,” a long-running Australian variety show, is under serious fire after it featured a comic group doing a skit in blackface, as a parody of the Jackson Five. The men in disguise, as well as the network, have apologized for the offending skit, but it has barely managed to put a d... |
9 October 2009
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Left 4 Dead 2 has a lot of controversy surrounding it, partly because it will arrive almost a year after the original game, which prompted many players of the first title to boycott it unless Valve released new content for it before L4D 2 would arrive. But another source of controversy has been a Houston Chronicle b... |
6 August 2009
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At a UN conference on race that took place on Wednesday, the message that the Vatican had to send was pretty clear – the Catholic Church feared that genetic alterations of babies could spawn a new type of racism worldwide. Pope Benedict XVI argues that the ability to alter traits in unborn babies could lead to ... |
23 April 2009
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Nigerian-born Helen Lawal, the 23-year-old Miss Black Britain and, most recently, the freshly crowned Miss York, is the target of a self-confessed racist who thinks she should not be part of the more important Miss Britain competition. A threatening phone call was placed with event organizer Vivienne Lee, and the pol... |
21 April 2009
04:16 GMT |
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Actor Brad Garrett, star of “Everybody Loves Raymond,” is no stranger to getting vocal about the way paparazzi are always in the face of a celebrity whenever they step out in public. However, it’s just now that he’s being targeted by several groups, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Commit... |
17 April 2009
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Resident Evil 5 is the latest iteration in Capcom's survival horror franchise. It was set out to provide a new and unique twist on the events portrayed in the series. It teamed up the main character in the first game, Chris Redfield, with a new and lovely sidekick and dispatched him to Kijuju, a fictional Africa... |
27 March 2009
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The Resident Evil franchise has always been about killing zombies and potentially saving the whole world from an outbreak of one of the many viruses that either the Umbrella Corporation or other companies that followed it released upon unsuspecting victims. So far so good, nobody complained about that. But when Resi... |
16 March 2009
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Recently, snopes received an e-mail from a person complaining about the fact that a Barnes and Nobles book retail shop featured a highly unusual and potentially racist book display. The layout comprised numerous books written by or about president Obama, and all of these volumes were carefully arranged so as to surro... |
28 February 2009
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Capcom is probably more than happy to announce that the demo version for Resident Evil 5, which is available on both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, has been downloaded four million times by gamers who are interested in seeing how the veteran videogame series is evolving.Initially, the download was only available... |
25 February 2009
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Researchers are amazed by the fact that the level of racist prejudice sharply decreased in the United States in the Fall of 2008, especially after Barack Obama was designated as the Democratic Party's nominee for President. Psychology professor E. Ashby Plant, from Florida State University, together with profess... |
13 February 2009
05:18 GMT |
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A blood type “frenzy” is currently sweeping Japan, authorities announce, in that all people are very interested in determining what their most outstanding blood-related features are. The country still holds the widespread belief that a person's blood houses a great deal of his or her character, and n... |
2 February 2009
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In a study conducted by researchers from Yale University, the York University, and the University of British Columbia, behavior psychologists learned that people tended to accept more racist remarks than they themselves were willing to admit. For the test, 120 non-black participants were divided into groups, and m... |
9 January 2009
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The Resident Evil franchise is one of the best ones in the horror survival genre, putting players against hordes of zombies or genetically mutated humans in a wide variety of scenarios and countries. Resident Evil 4 gained critical acclaim by taking the franchise to new heights in terms of gameplay and story, which b... |
28 October 2008
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Posting entries on a blog is usually a pleasant activity and some people managed to do a real business out of it. However, publishing messages on a blog sometimes may bring you more trouble than you have ever expected according to recent reports concerning a blogger who may go to jail due to comments posted on his bl... |
22 May 2008
05:11 GMT |
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Despite all its immense creative power and cutting edge sense of style, the fast-spinning fashion world has its fair share of inherent flaws, some kept well hidden, some more obvious. Perhaps the best example of an "open secret" is the belief common among fashion executives that black models do not inspire women to s... |
21 May 2008
03:54 GMT |
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Last year, the Resident Evil 5 initial trailer caused a lot of controversy when it featured an all-black cast in the role of the mutants and recently new questions have been put about the way racism affects the gaming world, after game journalist extraordinary N'Gai Croal remarked: "Wow, clearly no one black wor... |
14 April 2008
06:15 GMT |
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When Capcom launched the newest Resident Evil 5 trailer, sites immediately started stirring up some controversy, basically in relation to the fact that players will be in the boots of the White guy, on a mission to kill the Black, zombie guys. It seems that "the first ignorant article has popped up in the form of a b... |
2 August 2007
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