Ku Klux Klan

Taking Some Hacks with Charles McGill

Play them as they lie

Lionel Knows Best: 10 Black Pop Stars Who Should Go Country

By Mike Seely [Editor's note: Country Time is a new biweekly column for our sister music blog in Seattle.] With the nation's major-party political conventions drawing to a close recently with a rousing reelection appeal from the nation's first black president, it seems fitting to cast a spotlight ... More >>

Cellmates

Charles Barron on Ramarley Graham and Trayvon Martin: 'This Madness Must Stop'

As New York and the rest of the nation demand answers about Trayvon Martin's death, Councilmember Charles Barron delivered a message on the steps of City Hall this afternoon that was alternatively angry and somber. Barron, joined by Ramarley Graham's parents and the family of Jateik Reed, asked t ... More >>

Yvonne Rainer's Got Game at the Baryshnikov Arts Center; the Royal Danish Ballet Dances the Guggenheim

Emmanuelle Phuon and Sally Silvers join the veteran NYC artist, Nikolai Hübbe talks about his company

Michael Lucas: The Zionist Porn Impresario Waves His Political Muscle in the Left's Face

​At the beginning of the week, porn impresario Michael Lucas was somewhat known as a controversial gay conservative writer, someone you could expect to see playfully debating Ann Coulter at a GOProud event. But he was far more famous for his day job as a top porn star. He seemed more likely to go ... More >>

Roger Smith Hotel Chef Fired After Allegedly Pulling Bizarre Ku Klux Klan Gag

Bad idea. Bad, bad idea.​ From the annals of idiotic kitchen behavior: a chef at the Roger Smith Hotel resigned after he was accused by a black co-worker of putting a pillowcase over his head and pretending to be a Ku Klux Klan member.

Watch Das Racist Discuss Whether Or Not Lady Gaga and Katy Perry Are White Devils on Our Show at Santos Party House

​We've talked before about Our Show, Elliot Aronow's live-action, TV Party-reviving talk show conducted first in the basement of Santos Party House and then later on YouTube, where edited clips eventually trickle out. Earlier this year, SOTC pals Das Racist appeared on the show, doing a tore-u ... More >>

Asylum Denied

Only a fraction of Mexicans get U.S. asylum.

Bloggers Be Crazy: White Supremacist Hal Turner Found Guilty of Threatening to Kill Three Judges

​WNYC, it isn't. Via NYT CityRoom, after two previous mistrials, white supremacist-nationalist internet radio host and blogger Harold "Hal" Turner -- who broadcasts from his home in North Bergen, New Jersey -- was convicted today of threatening to assault or kill not one, not two, but three fe ... More >>

When Mississippi Burned--and What Happened After--in Neshoba

Chatting With Sugar Mama's Michelle DuQuesnay About 'Adult' Cakes, Rice Krispie Penises, and Jewelry Design

Michelle DuQuesnay, as seen on her website.​ Michelle DuQuesnay is the owner of one of the city's many cake design studios and also one of the city's relatively few erotic cake designers. Working out of the Brooklyn brownstone where her 10-month-old business, Sugar Mama NYC, is housed, she's f ... More >>

Rightbloggers Denounce Robert Byrd's Racism Until It's Time to Beat Up Some Black Guy

Democratic Senator Robert Byrd passed away last week at age 92. Among the items in his lengthy CV was a year-long membership in the Ku Klux Klan. He also had some kind words for that organization and its principles thereafter. Eventually Byrd denounced his Klan involvement as "my biggest mistake.. ... More >>

Anti-Gay Activists Outed by Supreme Court

Just in time for Pride Weekend, the Supreme Court has booted thousands of anti-gay activists out of the closet yesterday, who were terrified of being outed as bigots. In an unusual, near unanimous 8 to 1 decision, the court ruled that people who signed a petition to repeal Washington State's "everyt ... More >>

10 Nominations for 2010 World Cup Anthems Better Than Shakira's "Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)"

We defy you to unironically enjoy this song. The 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa kicks off on June 11th. Sports-wise, the tournament promises to be thrilling, with 32 teams from around the world pitting their varied domestic styles and approaches to the game against each other in a bid to deci ... More >>

KFC's Pink Bucket Campaign: A Breast for a Breast?

Your fried chicken, pinkwashed to perfection.​Practically in the same breath as launching its Double Down Sandwich stunt, KFC debuted its Buckets for the Cure campaign, which promises to donate 50 cents from every pink bucket sold to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation. Since April 5, t ... More >>

American Idol Season 9, Top 8 Ladies: Siobhan Magnus Murders "House of the Rising Sun"; Paige Miles Goes Meta with "Smile," and Pays the Price

Please welcome the next Ernie and/or Swizz Beatz. Photo by Frank Micelotta/ FOX​Holy shit, only one hour this week! Do you guys know what this means? It means we don't have to sit through endless inane video packages about every contestant's favorite fruit or whatever the fuck! It means the ne ... More >>

The Good Negro and Incident at Vichy Hunt Conflict; Blithe Spirit Hunts Comedy

Heil! Heil! Heil! Reagan Youth Return

If you feel disoriented at the prospect of enduring four years without a single Photoshopped picture of our national leaders in Gestapo outfits, then a dash of nostalgia might be just the ticket. Reagan Youth are back together! Reagan Youth hail from the primordial NY hardcore scene of 1980--too ... More >>

Looking at Music

Micheaux and Williams: Titans of 'Race' Cinema

At Anthology, silents and talkies that countered Griffith

A Gay Senate Candidate Revealed!

Double-wide-eyed by an opera trailer at Carnegie Hall and by a Senate race out North Carolina way

Free Will Astrology

Price on Request

Men at Work

Coal, chemicals, and campaigning: They're dirty jobs, but someone has to document them

Meanwhile, in District 9 . . .

Walking While Black

The bill of rights for black men

NY Mirror

Whose Dream?

Why the black church opposes gay marriage

Parts of the Elephunk

Annual Pre-Pazz & Jop Handicappers' CG: Whose faves are whose? Tune in next week . . .

Bill Kill

How to get the public interested in campaign finance reform? Think Pam Grier.

Crazy Sevens!

Double Dutch in a War Zone

On Ghetto Streets, It's Bloodshed and Tears All Over Again

Unconscious with a Conscience

Dope Opiate and the Hip-Hop Heart of a Too-Smart World

Onward Christian Special Forces

Court Jousters

A Small Cartel of Conservative Lawyers Rewrites the American Rule

Four on the Floor

Welcome to the Club

Discrimination Is Sometimes Right

100 Years of Solitude

Democracy in Chains

Slavery’s Legacy Shackled the Black Vote—And Cost Gore Thousands of Ballots

Blessings and Curses

Left Behind

The Radical Right Got Wired Fast. When Will Progressives Catch Up?

Walking While Black

The Bill of Rights for Black Men

The Dark Side of the Moon Landing

All Dressed Up

Nowhere To Go

The Vice Man Cometh

New York's Art War Archives

Sheena for Ex-President

Fourth Estate

Patriot Games

The Movies Made Me Do It

How much are 'Natural Born' Killers affected by film violence?