Early Tuesday morning, Chester Hanks, the son of beloved white millionaire Tom Hanks, posted an Instagram video to explain that “hip-hop isn’t about race” and it’s actually extremely fresh that he says “nigga.”
A Colorado BBQ joint called Rubbin’ Buttz has scheduled its “White Appreciation Day” for June 11. Although owner Edgar Antillon is Latino, he wants to give white customers 10 percent off for a day because “all Americans should be celebrated.”
A deli owner claims the backlash against the “white history month” sign he displayed in his store window during March has put him out of business. So he’s following in the footsteps of that anti-gay-marriage pizza place by asking for money on GoFundMe.
For years, white kids have been able to attend rap concerts and scream the word "nigga" in peace. But now, at least at festivals, livestreams are ubiquitous, which means we inadvertently see something like this: a white kid catching the spirit of a Southern frat party during Drake's "Crew Love."
Everybody loves a good redemption story, so let us all gather around and admire the resilient comeback of Michelle Lapidos, who did a perfect white-person thing when she wore an afro around New York to learn more about herself and is now doing an even more perfect white-person thing: running an "adult preschool" in…
Glee cheerleader and defective Kim Kardashian clone Naya Rivera had some crazy shit to say about the showering habits of "ethnics" on The View this week. Specifically,"I feel like showering more than once a day, or every day, is such a white people thing."
What is whiteness? It's a question that both ethnic studies scholars and stoned ethnic studies freshman have pondered for decades. But for News Corp magnate Rupert Murdoch, the answer is simple: whiteness is what Rupert Murdoch says it is.
Director Ridley Scott cast a bunch of white actors to play Egyptians in his upcoming Moses bipoic Exodus: Gods and Kings. That's showbiz! It's a tale as old as time, white supremacy as old as rhyme.
Ever wonder why some white people are so mortally afraid of black bodies? One possible, research-supported answer: they think black people are legit warlocks.
In a recording leaked to CNN, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham made a great "joke" at an event for an organization that's exclusively made up of white guys. "I'm trying to help you with your tax status. I'm sorry the government's so fucked up. If I get to be president, white men in male-only clubs are going to do…
Whiskey finally surpassed vodka this year as the dominant ingredient in America's afterparty vomit. That sounds like good news, because vodka is the world's worst-tasting gin, but it's deceptive. All it really means is that we're drinking more Fireball, that cinnamon-tinged whiskey-in-name-only.
Annie Lennox, who recently boiled down what Beyoncé does to "twerking" to dismiss Bey's feminism, was less specific though still not quite...right when when Tavis Smiley asked her about covering "Strange Fruit" on her new album Nostalgia. Popularized by Billie Holiday in 1939, "Strange Fruit" is a song about racism…
"The white folks had sure brought their white to work with them that morning." — Chester Himes
Fort Greene is one of the loveliest, and most expensive, neighborhoods in Brooklyn. It's the neighborhood that inspired Spike Lee's anti-gentrification rant earlier this year. Wealthy Fort Greene dog owners will not put up with homeless people, in the park.
White people keep moving to Brooklyn, driving up rent prices, and guess what? Two Brooklyn women have had enough. This weekend, Precious Parker, 30, and Sabrina James, 23, allegedly forced their neighbors out of their Flatbush apartment building at gunpoint.
Whites: are you a liberal who is sympathetic to the plight of oppressed minorities in America, but unsure how you—a white—can help? Fortunately, god invented XO Jane advice columns for this very reason.
Whenever an unarmed young black man is shot dead by the police, white conservatives determined not to feel guilty flock to one news source for their absolution: National Review.
