Racialicious

Racialicious is a blog about the intersection of race and pop culture. Check out our updates on the latest celebrity gaffes, our no-holds-barred critique of questionable media representations. If you've been on the blog, you know how this Tumblr works, too. Including the moderation policy.

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Pacific Rim 2 Finds Jing Tian Drift Compatible

Jing Tian is the latest name to join the cast of Legendary‘s Pacific Rim sequel. The actress, who is also set to appear in Zhang Yimou’s The Great Wall and Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ Kong: Skull Island, joins a cast that already includes John Boyega, Scott Eastwood and Cailee Spaeny.

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HOLY FUCK THE FEELS. THE CHILLS. 

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@studythesunshineflowers

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I’m going to scream this is incredible. I want to know everything about her breakthrough, now.

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Jon Stewart gives Larry Wilmore the send-off he truly deserves

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Freedom, a parody commercial about #Blackexcellence, dunking on the patriarchy, and Beyoncé to help you all channel your inner Simones and close out two weeks of the Rio Games.

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Laurie Hernandez winks at the judges before her floor routine.

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Watch: Beauty Vlogger Jackie Aina is challenging her peers to only use black-owned makeup brands

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I love her channel so much. She offers discount codes as well. She genuinely cares about her subscribers and followers.

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Most adult Comic-Con attendees knew who I was supposed to be (mostly). But the first child who wanted her picture taken with me had no idea what Hamilton was. She was young, black, and very excited to pose for a photo with a “princess.” So were her parents. She was bouncing and grinning, giving me the reaction generally reserved for Tiana from The Princess and the Frog. I was just thrilled. Even if she didn’t know who I was supposed to be, in a con filled with Belles, Arielles, and Auroras, she got to see a woman in a big, beautiful dress that looked like her. That’s all that mattered.

 I wrote about Hamilton cosplay and character diversity at SDCC for Fusion today. Check it, here.

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One woman at FOX’s party assumed I was Serayah. “Is that Taylor Swift’s friend, the one from Empire?” I heard her say when she thought I was out of earshot. Her companion confirmed that, yes, indeed I was. Later, I overheard someone guessing that I was “one of the stars from the slave movie at Sundance.” I can only assume she was mistaking me for Aja Naomi-King in Nate Parker’s Birth of a Nation. Later I was ID-ed as Lupita Nyong'o (Black Panther), Danai Gurira (Black Panther), and Jessica Williams (The Daily Show). I don’t look like any of these women. The only thing I have in common with any of them is that we’re all black. Hell, we’re not even all the same shades of black. The casual racism of thinking all black people “look alike” is sadly nothing new — but what I was experiencing at Comic-Con was a trend. One I couldn’t figure out how to explain until I started my trip back across the country to New York, once again easily blending into the crowds. That’s when I realized it’s easy to blend in when no one unconsciously tries to justify why I’m somewhere in the first place. The parties I attended weren’t for actors (the “talent”) only. Guests also included producers, screenwriters, publicists, film critics, and any other number of people in the entertainment industry (plus fans who managed to score invites). In other words, one doesn’t walk in assuming that every person there is some sort of celebrity. In fact, the friends I did the party circuit with — three white men and one white woman — weren’t mistaken for talent at all. Nor should they have been, given that none of them resemble any celebrity that I can think of. At Con events, they were just faces in a crowd, the faces people expected to see.

This is the second comic-con where I’ve been complimented for Jessica Williams’ work by random white folks. Problem? I’m not her. I wrote about the phenomenon and what it says about media diversity for Cosmo. 

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From Eric Garner to Philando Castile: Subway Mural to the Victims of Police Brutality

A reason to write. A reason to protest. More reasons to change the system, to confront institutional racism and brutality.  #Love it! this series, #Hate it! the reality that continues to feed it.

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http://weareheremovement.com

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The directors of Queen Sugar 

In January 2016 DuVernay announced that her upcoming miniseries adaptation of Natalie Baszile’s novel Queen Sugar would be going ahead with all 13 episodes directed by women. The names of the directors were gradually revealed on Twitter. Here are the 8 women directing the 13 episodes of the series:

Ep 01 & 02 - Ava DuVernay Ep 03 & 07 - Neema Barnette Ep 04 - So Yong Kim Ep 05 - Victoria Mahoney Ep 06 - Tanya Hamilton Ep 08 & 09- Kat Candler Ep 10 & 11 - Salli Richardson Ep 12 & 13 Tina Mabry

Queen Sugar, starring Rutina Wesley will air on OWN in the fall. 

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‘Uncle Buck’ Will Not Return For Season 2 On ABC

The news was first announced by star James Lesure and confirmed by ABC. Uncle Buck will not return for Season 2 on ABC. The single-camera comedy starring Lesure and Mike Epps was based on the classic John Hughes film starring John Candy.

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We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

After 87 courageous years on this earth, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel (September 30, 1928–July 2, 2016) has left us — and left us his timeless, increasingly timely wisdom on our shared responsibility in ending injustice. (via explore-blog)

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One thing that characterizes this particular moment, I think, is the critical mass of artists and writers and critics and curators and viewers in and beyond the art world who are coming from positions that had previously been excluded, oppressed, or unacknowledged. But there is also, more broadly, a much greater awareness that’s been brought about by multiculturalism and identity politics, in all their history and longue durée.

Huey Copeland (full text)

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Godfrey Gao  |  Conde Nast Traveler March 2016

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The Black Iris Project celebrates dancers and choreographers of color, and we are so excited to see them perform here live on July 14! And just announced: they will be in conversation with the one and only Susan Fales-Hill, arts education advocate!

Watch this clip to learn more about this extraordinary dance troupe, and RSVP to see them here!