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This Week in Racism

Former Italian Prime Minister Dressed up Strippers to Look Like Barack Obama

According to testimony given during the prostitution trial of his three former aides, Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was alleged to have dressed women up like Barack Obama, and had them perform stripteases. Now, I am not here to debate the erotic merits of President Obama. I am here to wonder if these women wore blackface. Full story

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Triple Hate - Trailer

'Triple Hate' is a documentary about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Memphis City Council, the Klan, the Crips, Ulysses S. Grant, racism, and the specter of history. Part one premieres Monday, May 20, on VICE.com. Full story

This Week in Racism

Happy Confederate Memorial Day!

If you’ve ever pined for the good ol’ days of manners, gentlemanly behavior, long sips of lemonade on the porch during a hot day, and ungodly human bondage, then this is the holiday for you. And, like the LAPD, Ann Coulter, and the state of Michigan, you're a racist. Full story

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My Education Among the Strange Kids of Rural Georgia in the 90s

Some of my "classmates" were completely divorced from popular culture and the society around them, and their playmates were so selectively chosen that they were rarely allowed to interact with other kids at all. It showed. They were socially underdeveloped to a degree that, in re… Full story

This Week in Racism

Ann Coulter Wants to Arrest Women for Wearing Hijabs

Best-selling author Ann Coulter receives this week’s Ann Coulter Award for Excellence in Racism for declaring without reservation that the Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsnarnaev’s wife should be imprisoned for wearing a hijab. Full story

This Week in Racism

People Being Beaten up for "Looking Arab"

I have compiled all the most galling, depressing, exhausting cases of racism, either overt or covert, that I have come across in the last seven days. I will be rating each of these cases on a scale of 1 to RACIST. With '1' being the least racist, and 'Racist' being the most racis… Full story

The Underachievers Talk About Stop-and-Frisk and Kimani Gray

The Underachievers have managed to rise up out of their Brooklyn neighborhood of Flatbush. But it wasn't long ago that they were getting stopped and frisked by the cops, just like the other hundreds of thousands of black and Latino male New Yorkers. I talked with them about the N… Full story

Does Don Draper Want to Legalize Heroin?

The idea that mass incarceration and the war on drugs are racist as well as massive failures has gained a lot of traction over the years. But it wasn’t until the past few days that the movement to end the drug war achieved the mark of every mainstream political cause in America—a… Full story

CPAC's Blackfacing of Bad Ideas

My first few hours at CPAC felt a little like being at New York Fashion Week—white people everywhere were asking to take my picture, which may have had something to do with the color of my skin. There weren't many brothers in the seats, thought there were plenty onstage, includin… Full story

A New Look at Calgary's Neo-Nazi Movement

Brett Gundlock has spent years documenting the Neo-Nazi Movement in Calgary. In light of a recent murder tied to the group, we revisited his research and have some previously unreleased photos from his time with them to share with you. Full story