I always heard the Whoopi got that Oscar because she got screwed out of the Best Actress Oscar for The Color Purple, which she absolutely deserved. All the crazy and questionable stuff she has ever done in her career cannot diminish that she SHOULD HAVE HAD AN OSCAR FOR THE COLOR PURPLE! That is probably the best…

I remember this video because it’s the one where she randomly, and uninvited, sticks her hand in Richard Ayoade’s hair while talking about how women shouldn’t get rid of their pubic hair; just a bad move on her part.

The Jamie rape scene is one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen. Keep your hand on the fast forward.

Exactly, Where is Kara *presses PA button... Kara Brown please come get your colleague.

It’s relevant because it raises the question of how much time he spends with all his other children and also whether Ciara wants someone who does a lot drugs around their son.

You know what I loved about Lena Horne ? She had no problem telling folks “listen dont get it twisted regardless of what I look like, white people see me as black and have treated me with all the indignities and disrespect that comes with that” BUT she also acknowledged “Yes Im talented and work hard but I know that…

She is unexceptional, but lots of unexceptional people work hard and get things, Emma Stone and Blake lively come to mind.

Sometimes I’m goody goody. Right now I’m naughty naughty.

also, most of those movements did not “win” mainstream support.

“Guys, it’s private property, you can’t do your protests there! Think of how inconvenient you are to shoppers! Why can’t these BLM people go off somewhere quiet and out of view and have respectable protests like civil rights fighters back in the 50s and 60s!”

You know what blew me away about all of those previews? As I sat through 20 minutes of them, basically all the same except for Zootopia and Fantastic Beasts, I thought: “Now no one is ever going to see these movies.” Next to Star Wars, they just look like student films from a student filmmaker with no ideas and way…

She’s not trying to change it, though. She’s saying that this interpretation is a valid one, even if she did imagine Hermione as white originally. It’s almost as if people don’t understand that once something becomes part of the cultural zeitgeist, it becomes open to interpretation. This is why there are so many…

I think it's pretty clear that she wrote Hermione as white and that she probably just didn't think too much about it as her whole worldview tends to be that of a white, British middle class person. I agree also that it makes no difference if the gal who plays her in the play is black. Rowling obviously doesn't care…

Yup teacher sounds totally reasonable here. Like nothing about this assignment sounds like it needed to be done in school. The only legit complaints would be from kids without access to computers or the internet, and I hope she’d accommodate those students.

“Good-Not-Extraordinary Voice”

While this was much longer than it needed to be, I swear it feels like every time a black writer that isn’t a Gawker Media employee writes something, the comment section is filled with people carrying on about how they can’t understand ANYTHING that was discussed.

This guy is right up there with this other guy:

Seriously? Again with the “and I don’t feel bad about” having advantages that other people can only dream of? Jeez. No one ever said you should feel bad about it. No one went on the offensive against your grandmother. This article is not a personal attack on you and your family’s liquid assets. Did you really feel…

I usually don’t root for the death of children onscreen, but I will shed no tears and grin a bit when Sam (PTSD and all) and probably Ron are almost surely killed when the show resumes. Their mom will likely die too and that’s sad as she did have a bit more sense, but that is the price she will pay for having two duds…

I hope James Baldwin’s ghost rises up to ether Don Lemon as he did William Buckley.