Race: Past, Present, And Future Tense
“White culture has been on the fritz lately and I’m not sure it is coming back.” So wrote one of my undergraduate students on her final exam a few years…
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“White culture has been on the fritz lately and I’m not sure it is coming back.” So wrote one of my undergraduate students on her final exam a few years…
If you’re one of the many Americans toiling away at a huge corporation, here are some things you’re probably familiar with: tracking vacation days, getting expenses approved and sitting through…
Kanye West unveiled his Adidas Yeezy Season 1 collection along with a new song at New York Fashion Week on Thursday. The rapper told Complex the show was “like the…
www.towleroad.com: With the opening of the highly anticipated, debated, snarked at, and side-eyed 50 Shades of Grey this weekend, we thought rather than read passages from the book (which we’ve…
Live, from New York, it’s the new “Saturday Night Live” documentary, “Live From New York!” Directed by Bao Nguyen, the new film will open this year’s Tribeca Film Festival on…
According to pop culture, romance means candlelit dinners, walks on the beach, and sprints through airports to confess everlasting love. But as mom Julia Koumbassa puts it, romance when you’re…
Middlebrow is a recap of the week in entertainment, celebrity and television news that provides a comprehensive look at the state of pop culture. From the rock bottom to highfalutin,…
What is a fantasy? From Freud to Ludacris, it’s been an elusive idea, suggesting both an escape from reality and an expression of hidden desire. In culture, fantasy works like…
Last Friday, U.S. tourists and sisters Lindsey Kate Adams and Leslie Jan Adams were deported after allegedly getting caught taking partially nude photos at Preah Khan temple, one of the…
Hopefully, by now you know that calling people the pronouns they want to be called is a basic and necessary way to demonstrate respect for their identities. This includes learning…
Harvard University officially instituted a ban on sexual relationships between professors and undergraduate students this week. The decision followed Harvard’s review of its policy against sexual and gender-based harassment, as…
But fear not, it’s Snapchat to the rescue. Duffy’s office has built a unique rhythm and culture; where communicating through Snapchat helps them keep everything on track. It’s also become…
Director Baz Luhrmann is making his first television show, a musical drama set in 1970s New York City, for Netflix. The streaming service confirmed the news on Thursday, and released…
Middlebrow is a recap of the week in entertainment, celebrity and television news that provides a comprehensive look at the state of pop culture. From the rock bottom to highfalutin,…
Norse gods have been making a comeback in popular culture, with Thor and Loki now staples of the summer box office. But the ancient religion is making a spiritual comeback,…
“There is no other country that has such a strong connection to ours in terms of history, economy and culture,” Christie said on a call with reporters before the trip….
Questions of gender identity are nothing new. Way before Transparent and Chaz Bono and countless other popular culture stepping stones to where we are now regarding gender identity, there were…
“Why is your penis on a dead girl’s phone?” If you have no idea what I’m talking about then chances are you don’t know who Annalise Keating is. And if…
Oh happy day — you no longer need to be Beyonce to take a trip to Cuba. And thanks to KAYAK, this just became all too real. – In any…
Anyone paying attention to the world of pop culture knows that it’s a hostile one, with feuds and rivalries between artists being the norm. When it comes to relationships between…
Benedict Cumberbatch apologized on Monday for using the phrase “colored actors” on the Tavis Smiley PBS show, and said he was “devastated to have caused offense.” He landed in hot…
There is something genius about setting a coming-of-age comedy in 2014, but making the main characters obsessed with ’90s hip-hop. You get the best of both worlds: the pop culture…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Defense attorneys for the former Vanderbilt University football players whose own cellphones show they participated in a dorm-room sex assault have placed blame on the elite…
When it comes to sex-ed, curriculums vary. Some schools teach abstinence-only, while others provide information about safe sex, but very few teach teens about consent. Two 13-year-olds living in Toronto,…
And the United States could be next, warned Jindal, a Republican who is considering a 2016 presidential run. “They may be second, third, fourth generation, they don’t consider themselves part…
But places like Albertine and Book Culture, another Manhattan shop, went a different route. The stores made arrangements with Emmanuel Saint-Martin, the owner of a website catering to French ex-pats…
Issa’s final IRS report spreads blame, slams ‘culture of bias’ In their place, pictures of everyday Americans will be hung in an effort to remind lawmakers why they are there….