Racial Issues

Brad Paisley's "Accidental Racist": Why This Song Sucks

Monday, Brad Paisley, a white man, joined hands with LL Cool J, a black man, and attempted to end racism with a song called "Accidental Racist" (below), wherein Paisley addressed the debilitating dread of being an affluent white male in America and LL panthered around in the background, high-fiving ... More >>

Rita Walters to Curren Price: Stop Inciting 'Racial Animosity' in Los Angeles Council District 9 Contest

Former Los Angeles City Councilwoman Rita Walters has accused Council District 9 candidate Curren Price of trying to "incite racial animosity among African-American voters." In a strongly worded "open letter," Walters, who backs Council District 9 candidate Ana Cubas, says Price, an African America ... More >>

This Book Will Challenge Everything You Thought You Knew About The Searchers

If you're embittered Civil War veteran John Wayne and Indians kill your brother's family, burn down the family farm and abduct your cute 8-year-old niece (who might actually be your biological daughter), naturally you have to set out on an obsessive quest to rescue her and bring her back to white ma ... More >>

African-American Vote Looms Large In Race For L.A. Mayor

The candidates for L.A. mayor held their 423rd** debate last night, at Ward A.M.E. Church in South L.A. The event was feistier than most -- as Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel finally got to have their face-to-face clash over the $160 million in waste she claims to have uncovered.But it also gave a gl ... More >>

Ashton Kutcher Is A Philandering, Racist Toolbag? VIDEO

Ashton Kutcher is a true moralist who has made no secret of his distaste for sex traffickers, adult classified advertising, and men who employ prostitutes (U.S. Secret Service agents be damned). He even launched an ad campaign called "Real Men Don't Buy Girls." Then he allegedly cheated on his wif ... More >>

Casting Call for 'Asian Man' With 'Extremely Small Penis': Racist? Or Just Unfunny?

Wikimedia CommonsFor no relevant reason whatsoever, here are some baby carrots next to a ruler. Thanks, Wikipedia.​ The following description appeared in a recent casting call for an indie television pilot, as identified by the blog angry asian man: [ CHANG ] MALE: 20's - 40's. Asian. Petite, ... More >>

Janice Hahn Releases Poll Showing Big Lead Over Laura Richardson, Isadore Hall

Rep. Janice Hahn​Congresswoman Janice Hahn -- still getting used to that -- released a poll today that gives her a wide margin over her two potential opponents in the new 44th Congressional District.As always with in-house polls, they only release them when they're favorable, so grab your salt sha ... More >>

Will Janice Hahn Run For The "Black" Seat After Redistricting?

Janice Hahn​Newly minted Rep. Janice Hahn faces a tough choice if she wants to stay in Congress for more than a year. By the looks of the latest redistricting maps, she will be drawn into a coastal district that also includes Rep. Henry Waxman.Waxman has been in Congress for 36 years, and is as cl ... More >>

Black Santa Monica High Student Says Wrestling Teammates Hung Noose, Chained Him to Locker, Shouted 'Slave for Sale!'

Is Samohi breeding bigots?​Updated after the jump: The L.A. County Sheriff is now investigating administrators who knew about the hate crime and didn't report it to police -- technically breaking the law. Looks like there's still some unabashed racism in paradise: The Los Angeles Times was ju ... More >>

Das Racist: "We get really sick of playing "Time to Pretend" but we have to do it for our fans" (Live at the Echoplex Tonight)

​Das Racist may not be reworking "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" to include our beloved In-N-Out any time soon, but they will be playing at the Echoplex tonight, performing in their signature half-serious style. We caught up with the group last week to get the scoop on their background a ... More >>

L.A.'s Simon Wiesenthal Center: 'Top 10 Anti-Semitic Slurs of 2010'

Mel, this list needs you.​TMZ called it (as usual): Mel Gibson didn't make the "Top 10 Anti-Semitic Slurs of 2010'' list? Surprising, innit? It's a whole new era in unenlightened Jew hating. And the L.A.-based Simon Wiesenthal Center has the list of fresh recruits. At the top, former Associa ... More >>

White Supremacist Is A Shoo In For School Board Seat In Inland Empire

​Self-proclaimed white supremacist Dan Schruender, a spokesman for the Aryan Nation, is running for a seat in the Rialto Unifed School District, according to the Associated Press. Schreunder, who announced his candidacy on an Aryan Nation blog earlier this week, said he would not let his id ... More >>

Nazi Protest Turns Bloody In Downtown L.A.

BrandOneCulture via Twitpic​A white-supremacist was injured when he was surrounded and beaten by some in a crowd of counter-protesters before a Nazi demonstration downtown Saturday. Los Angeles police rescued the man and pulled him from the violence. No one was arrested, but shortly after poli ... More >>

Federal Judge Faults Discount Store For Latino-On-Black Discrimination

​In a rare case of minority on minority discrimination, a federal judge on Thursday approved a consent decree involving Big Lots discount stores in which Latino workers were found to have discriminated against and harassed some African-American employees. The decree -- which Big Lots agreed t ... More >>

Dirty Laundry Over Prop. 8

Blame-game erupts over Latino and black support for the gay marriage ban

Election '08: Very Old Tears

Election '08: White Privilege

Thanks, Tim Wise, whoever you are. White Privilege, White Entitlement and the 2008 Election By Tim Wise / BuzzFlash / 13 September 2008 [Tim Wise is the author of White Like Me (Soft Skull, 2005, revised 2008), and of Speaking Treason Fluently, published this month, also by Soft Skull.] For th ... More >>

2007 Pan African Film Festival, Week 2

The Bastard Question

A former Blood explores the roots of our nation’s longest-running war

Race Divide

A white gang member is charged with threatening a black student in Pasadena

''They Wanted All Blacks Out''

Federal trial exposes the Avenues of hate

Into the Jaws of the Demon

Price Cobbs on what it will take for African-Americans to claim their space

Dressed To ’Ill

The NBA is playing fashion police to overhaul basketball’s image. But the anxiety goes deeper than a sport

Poor, Black and Left Behind

Before Killer Katrina, there was Ivan the Terrible

Cloud Over the Promised Land

A new report shows that black Los Angeles is getting grim

Anointing the Savior

Is Herb Wesson hoping his King-Drew role turns into more?

He Could Have Been a Contender

Once thought of as the last best hope for black leadership in troubled times, Bernard Parks is now a mayoral candidate with no support.

Letters

Store Front

In the bid to expand its empire into Inglewood, Wal-Mart’s getting black like me

What Is Lillian Mobley Fighting For?

Saving King/Drew, the hospital in the hood

Quiet Riot

Inglewood didn’t burn after the Jeremy Morse acquittal, but was it supposed to?

Lab Coat Revolutionary

UCLA's William Cunningham takes a scholar's approach to overhauling public health — and getting condoms handed out in church

Ignoble Sentence

Death row's nominee for peace prize might be helped by high-court ruling on racial bias

Black and Blue

The Oscar Joel Bryant Foundation fights for the LAPD's soul -- and its own

Joe, We Hardly Knew Ye

The fear -- and loathing -- of a black hat

The Devil and Mr. Hicks

How one of L.A.’s leading lefties joined forces with David Horowitz and Southern California’s conservative elite

Losing Dorothy

If you’re black and poor in L.A., silence still equals death.

Twisting Darwin

Evolution, eugenics and racism, American style

Beating History

Hahn better hope voters forget his mistakes dealing with Daryl Gates and Rodney King

First Lady

The queen of comedy gets big laughs

Same Old, Same Old

Black (and white) at the movies

I, Too, Sing Hollywood

Four women on race, art and making movies

I ,Too, Sing Hollywood (Part 2)

Four women on race, art and making movies

Blue Like Me

On race and depression

Letters

Letters

Back to School

Hamilton High teacher returns to the classroom

The Last Resort

A family -- and cultural -- saga

The Accidental Populist

Magic Johnson gives some back

ExitToll

Macy’s donations anger Crenshaw anew