How unappealing it is to imagine British Member of Parliament Dianne Abbott being given a “severe dressing down” and “ordered” to apologize “unreservedly” by Labour Party leader Ed...
Last week, an article in Slate entitled "How Black People Use Twitter: The latest research on race and microblogging" caused a bit of a stir and some moments of sheer hilarity on Twitter and in the...
Social media isn't going away anytime soon. Facebook and Twitter, blogging and the latest Google app are here to stay, it seems. But aside from giving us new ways to socialize, can these new...
When is sexual harassment not sexual harassment? When it pertains to the rights of an academic to discuss the sex life of fruit bats with a colleague. Add a cry for understanding, a wail of academic...
The grass-roots in the UK is shattered. Party membership and volunteerism is tremendously low, and long-term disengagement with national politics had only the briefest of respites as a result of the...
As a Black gender equality advocate, I had mixed reactions to Erykah Badu’s video “Window Seat." I worried about people cheapening the significance of the song. In the video, the artist removes...
On February 13th, Kevin Smith was asked to vacate his seat on a Southwest airlines flight, on account of being "too fat" to fly. Smith is a very successful director, and when he decided to use...
I skipped the State of the Union. I've been fed up with Obama speeches for a bit—strange, considering he's the best political speaker of my lifetime, certainly. But I just couldn't take another...
China's snooping on dissidents is unfortunate but unsurprising, but Western governments – and businesses – need to get out of our private communications, too. Last week a British man, Paul...
Relief efforts throughout the globe are being organized to support Haiti as it recovers from the most severe earthquake disaster (7.0 magnitude) in over two centuries. Though official counts are...