Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Touré Tackles Prince in New Book, Finds Jesus, Discovers They're One in the Same

Dearly Beloved, you are gathered here today to read our interview with a writer about a legendary performer. In this corner, Touré: Journalist and thinker for many an outlet (The New Yorker, VIBE, Time.com), and author of Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness: What It Means to Be Black Now. You perhaps kn ... More >>

Rightbloggers Find the Trayvon Martin Case Proof of Racism -- Against White People

One of the enduring myths of American conservatism is that there's still racism in this country -- and it's suffered by white people at the hands of blacks and white liberal race-traitors. Normal people who've been out of their homes a time or two will find that puzzling. But for rightbloggers it' ... More >>

Keep Your Beer Cold and Get Shit-Faced With the Joe Biden Koozie

Cold refreshment is a big fucking deal.​Sick of the never-ending coverage en route to the 2012 presidential election? Wish you could just drink yourself to sleep and wake up when it's all over? The Obama 2012 campaign store is here to help. Their online shop is selling a Joe Biden beer koozie ... More >>

Fall Arts: Book Picks

The Best Books of 2010

Vocoders, bohos, and a blast of vertigo—Village Voice writers pick their faves of the year

Winter Guide: Holiday Gift Books for Any Kind of Troublesome Friend

Frenemies? Self-important hipsters? No literary problem.

Harry Reid's "Negro" Remarks Spur Another Rightblogger Seminar on Who The Real Racists Are

Mark Halperin's and John Heilemann's new book Game Change about the 2008 Presidential campaign is full of hilarious revelations. Among these is the news that Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid listed among Barack Obama's electoral advantages that he was "light skinned" and had "no Neg ... More >>

Mario Batali Delves Into his Genetics on PBS

On February 10th, Mario Batali will appear on Faces of America, the PBS series on the complex genealogy and genetics of prominent Americans, hosted by Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Yes, he of the beer summit.) In the preview, we learn that Batali had a French great grandfather named LaFra ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ Museum of Natural History. Twitpic by ashelamb. The week was hot as hell -- which, a quick scan of our stories reveals, is an apt comparison. In a tribute to democracy, people with guns started following around President Obama. Busybodies were all over Michelle Obama's butt. Old peo ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ Twitpic by iamawizard. The week started with an underwear run and went downhill from there. President Obama's Supreme Court pick, Sonia Sotomayor, rocked the Judiciary Committee. He felt so good about that he released unexpected stimulus money for New York cops, and announced Medal of ... More >>

Obama Drinks Bud; Astoria Noisiest Hood in Queens

​Obama decided to deal with the Henry Louis Gates situation by inviting the Harvard professor and Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley over to the White House for a beer. The president said he would have a Budweiser, while Crowley prefers Blue Moon, and Gates drinks Red Stripe or Becks. [Slate] ... More >>

Obama Will Drink Piss Beer at Gates-Crowley Summit

​It appears President Obama has avoided controversy by allowing his guests at the Henry Louis Gates-Sergeant James Crowley summit to have whatever beer they want -- Gates is said to like Red Stripe, Crowley Blue Moon -- while Obama, mindful of America's preference for the mediocre, will drink ... More >>

Stringer Aide Out After Facebook Posts Denouncing Gates, Supporting Racial Profiling

​It's getting to the point where if you tell people the truth about the black crime menace, you lose your right to a government job. Here's the latest outrage from the sensitivity police: An aide to Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer has resigned after it was revealed that she made com ... More >>

The 9 Beers Obama Should NOT Serve at the Gates-Sgt. Crowley Meeting

​Certainly, the headline of the day is ABC News' "What Beer Will Obama Choose for White House Meeting?" This refers to the beer the President is scheduled to have with Professor Henry Louis Gates and the man who arrested him, Sergeant James Crowley of the Cambridge PD. Scott Mayerowitz' articl ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

​School's Out! But the Voice Educational Supplement is in session. When cops made a bogus bust on 32 teens from Bushwick Community High, the kids kept their cool -- and won their case against the NYPD. Why? Because they'd been trained how to respond to police overreach and entrapment by their ... More >>

Rightbloggers Will Tell You Who The Real Racists Are in the Henry Louis Gates Case

One of the great themes of the current conservative movement is Liberal Fascism -- the idea, promoted by Jonah Goldberg's book of that name, that liberals are the true heirs of Hitler and Mussolini, and that they effect fascist outrages in the present day via their "speech police," "thought poli ... More >>

Who Do You Side With In The Henry Gates Incident?

​Last week, the country was aboil with racial angst because scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. had been arrested for disorderly conduct by Sgt. James Crowley, responding to a call. President Obama ended up trying to soothe the situation by saying that while the copper may have overreacted (Gates ... More >>

Obama Takes "PO$H" Vacation in Taxachusetts While the People Suffer

  "Despite growing unemployment numbers across the U.S.," the Post breathlessly announces, "the first family is planning to spend their summer vacation on a lavish East Coast getaway that could cost taxpayers up to $50,000 a week." And since the Obama's will be spending one week there, that co ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

  Twitpic by tedsink. Last weekend's Siren Festival left many of us groggy, and a good thing too, as the week that followed was best seen in soft focus. President Obama and Henry Louis Gates were the comedy team of the week. Mayor Bloomberg, angry about the way mayoral school control ... More >>

Obama "Calibrates" Gates Cop Comments, Is Spared Arrest

 President Obama said he wished he could "have calibrated those words differently" when he said the arresting officer in the Henry Louis Gates case acted "stupidly." He now says the cop and Gates probably both overreacted and were "two good people in a circumstance that neither of them were abl ... More >>

Harry Reid Delays Health Care Till After Vacation, Leaving Henry Louis Gates to Heal Our Wounds

 President Obama went to a lot of trouble last night to explain the concept behind his health care plan -- "So taxpayers are already putting this money into the kitty. The problem is they're not getting a good deal for the money they're spending," etc. -- and now Harry Reid says, whatever dude ... More >>

Tribeca Film Festival Snubs Heidi and Spencer for Jury

The 2009 Tribeca Film Festival just announced its juries, and although they've included almost everyone you've ever heard of (Andre Leon Talley! Mary-Kate Olsen! Rachel Maddow!) from every corner of the entertainment industry (daytime television WHAT UP!), founder Robert De Niro has made a possibly ... More >>

How Jamaica's Volatile Dancehall Scene Can Avoid a Biggie vs. Tupac Tragedy

Kara Walker's Thrilling Whitney Retrospective

Riding the racial high-wire

Afrocentrifugal Force: Looking Blackward With Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Black Power Rangers

How to tell white folks the truth: Boondocks creator McGruder and his underage stand-ins

The Rise of the Black Nerd

Separated from racial mainstreams, the outsiders make their mark

License to Ill

Black journalism in the pages of the 'Voice'

Coming of Age

1976–1985: Punk to Pomo, Basquiat to Breakdancing

NY Mirror

We Need You

It's Time to Call for New Black Leadership

The Great Race

A lesson from post-apartheid South Africa

Not an Animal

Reggae dancehall's reigning brash and bold head-chopper-offer isn't afraid to be absurd

Masked & Pseudonymous

Academics Look at the Social Phenomenon of 'Passing' and Ask: What Could Be More American?

Minority Report

Why White America Would Rather Learn Spanish Than Ebonics

Listings

Foucault's Turntable

Hip-Hop Scholars Bumrush the Academy

Beating Crow

The Rise of the Black Nerd

Separated From Racial Mainstreams, the Outsiders Make Their Mark

A World Apart

Generation Hiphop's Aesthetics

Letters

Spinning Race at Harvard

The Business Behind the Gates-West Power Play

The Golden Age

An Interview with the Studio Museum’s Thelma Golden

Sticker Shock

The FTC Markets Censorship as Consumer Protection

bell's Lettres

Follow the Leader

The Wild Bunch

When bad behavior masquerades as bravery

She, Tina

How Tina Brown revived the years with Ross

Too Deep for Anger

To be Black in this Country is to Always Affirm Something