Deadline is reporting that Sony Pictures Chief Amy Pascal is exiting the studio due to a “shakeup at the top.” The news comes as no surprise and just a couple months after a devastating hack revealed that the studio head
Argentina’s President, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, is under fire for sending a tweet, during a diplomatic trip to China, in which she attempted to recreate an Asian accent, replacing r’s with l’s.
Serena Williams, the top-ranked female tennis player, announced in Time that she will return to Indian Wells in 2015. She boycotted the tournament after 2001, which became a mandatory stop on the WTA tour in 2009, since the tournament director did not apologize for treatment she endured playing there.
In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday’s “AC360,” New York Times op-ed columnist Charles Blow refused to back off allegations of racism involved in his son’s arrest at gunpoint by Yale campus police earlier this week. Blow levied
MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews said that “I don’t see how anybody who’s African-American would think about voting Republican as long as Reince Priebus is running the show” due to the GOP’s support for voter ID laws on Wednesday. “They’re
Oscar-nominated British actor Benedict Cumberbatch is apologizing for a verbal misstep, in which he referred to non-white actors as “colored.”
New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow is “fuming” over the fact that his black son was stopped and questioned by police on Saturday as they searched for a black robbery suspect.
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) said that President Obama “shouldn’t be taking any side” on “local issues” of racial bias in law enforcement on Friday’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on the Fox News Channel. Responding to comments the
For many years, we have been hearing reports of insular Muslim communities in Europe, particularly in France and the UK, which became known as “no-go zones” because non-Muslims were not welcome there. Islamic clerics were given autonomous authority, and government agents were hesitant to assert themselves.
ABC’s daytime series The View has become synonymous with controversy. However, recently critics have singled out the show’s executive producers, rather than its hosts, for “racist” and defamatory language used against Hispanic co-host Rosie Perez.
Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson opens a Variety op-ed about “Selma’s” Oscar snub by defaming America: “Are we a racist country? Yes,” Levinson writes. He does throw America a bone by saying we are getting better, yet offers no proof to
NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” had Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. travel to the year 2015 as part of its intro. Dr. King, who had appeared to help a schoolboy with a paper on him, was briefed on, and reacted to
HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher proclaimed “Hollywood liberals are such hypocrites” in response to the controversy over the lack of diversity among Oscar nominees on Friday. In an interview with director Kathryn Bigelow, Maher asked whether there was real problem with
#BlackLivesMatter protesters caused major traffic jams for commuters in Boston on Thursday by attaching themselves to 1200-lb. barrels on a major freeway and earning themselves the title “#Douchebarrels” on social media. In San Francisco, #BARTFriday protesters who blocked commuters from getting to work the following morning earned themselves the same title while causing a cacophony of irritating noises, using spoons, that immobilized the working masses for a while.
Producer Oprah Winfrey’s Selma won two Oscar nominations Thursday morning: Best Picture and Best Song. Because the Civil Rights drama failed to win nominations for its director, star or script, people are claiming it was snubbed (it was — the
Here are the 5 crucial facts Vox chose to ignore when it declared the Oscars racist: “12 Years a Slave” was the Best Picture front-runner when it won last year “12 Years a Slave” was up against some very tough
Glee star Naya Rivera shared her opinion on The View on Tuesday that bathing once a day is only a “white people thing,” after the show’s co-host Nicolle Wallace informed the audience she showers multiple times a day.
A former Massachusetts prosecutor, who once secured a civil rights injunction against Mark Wahlberg, says the actor shouldn’t be pardoned for attacking two Asian men in his youth.
If there were ever really a bright moment in the sun for Charlie Hebdo magazine’s slain writers and editors to be hailed as free speech martyrs, it’s just about over. The Left is very uneasy with the notion of celebrating people who delighted in trampling on sacred narratives about power and victimization. To be brutally frank, modern “liberals” aren’t all that wild about free speech, either.
On Monday, talk radio host and author of “The Liberty Amendments,” Mark Levin said that President Obama should have sent Al Sharpton to this weekend’s French unity rally. “For this administration, representing the heart and soul of this administration, and
HBO’s Bill Maher said that “someone needs to explain to me when did the NYPD start suffering from PMS” and told “New York’s whiniest” they “volunteered for it” on Friday. “Someone needs to explain to me when did the NYPD start
The BBC has refused to interview a black history month campaigner because he would not remove a large golliwog doll from around his neck. A BBC spokesman said that they asked Chaka Artwell to remove the doll because it might
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is still reaping the consequences from the months of anti-police statements he’s made with officers booing him, turning their backs to him, and otherwise showing opposition. That opposition continues this week as two more officers were shot in the Big Apple, and one of them reportedly didn’t appreciate the mayor’s sympathy visit on Tuesday.
The White House has hosted serial race-baiter Al Sharpton dozens of times, and has followed his cues in racially divisive controversies from the Trayvon Martin shooting to the ongoing “Black Lives Matter” protests, which have led to retaliatory violence against police across the nation. Moreover, President Barack Obama himself spent twenty years in the pews of the church of Jeremiah Wright in Chicago, enduring Wright’s racist sermons without comment or complaint, and contributing thousands of dollars to Wright’s fundraising efforts
Saturday political activists gathered in South Central Los Angeles demanding that Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey file murder charges against two officers who fatally shot a 25-year-old black man in an altercation.
