Street Art for Hope and Peace
Born in France to Tunisian parents, eL Seed delights in juggling multiple cultures, languages and identities. Not least in his artwork, which sets Arabic poetry…
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Monica Lewinsky: The price of shame
In 1998, says Monica Lewinsky, “I was Patient Zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously.” Today, the kind of online…
Taylor Swift to testify in court over Lucky 13 trademark
13 is Taylor Swift’s lucky number. But maybe not this time. A judge has lately ordered the singer to testify in the Lucky 13 trademark…
World’s best restaurant: El Celler de Can Roca
The recently crowned world’s best restaurant, Spain’s El Celler de Can Roca, basesits success on combining culinary traditions of Mediterranean people and continuousinnovation and creativity.…
Just Listen: A Message For Racist Internet Trolls
I know what your stances on racism are primarily about. There are some of you who continue not to believe that racism is a significant…
Kendrick Lamar and Black Hip Hop Masculinity
One of the challenges of doing cultural criticism is when the critic begins to infer their own meaning onto something that was not intended by…
Rudy Giuliani and Pat Lynch: New York’s Finest Covones
By Mike Caccioppoli How predictable that right wingers would use the tragedy of the assassination of two police officers to go after police brutality protesters…
White Folks Love Guns
The argument I may get from the usual suspects will be that I can’t talk about white people since I’m not white. Therefore, doing so…
Arrest Darren Wilson Now !
Update: Autopsy shows Michael Brown was shot six times most likely from a distance. Including bullet holes in the top of his head and his eye. …
On Anniveraries: Obama The Winner vs. Bush The Loser
As we once again deal with scumbag Darrell Issa and his Benghazi obsessive compulsive disorder it’s worth taking a look at two anniversaries that are…