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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which monitors hate groups, called the KKK "the most infamous — and oldest — of American hate groups." The KKK's website states that the organization's ...
The buzz about season 2 of Orange Is the New Black has already hit a fever pitch. The female-powered cast, many of whom are relatively new faces on American television, creates a rich mosaic of ...
Popular cosplayer Krissy Victory recently posted a video outlining her experience with cosplaying D.Va and the response she received as a black cosplayer.
Yes, NyQuil as in the cough syrup and chicken as in, a food that should not be seasoned with cough syrup. A pair of (hopefully) satirical cooking videos have gone viral on TikTok, and in them ...
So, let Angela Davis explain. The philosopher-activist and professor was hunted down by the FBI for a crime she didn't commit, jailed in 1970, and freed in 1972. While serving her sentence in a ...
For the Los Angeles-based KTLA 5 news team, Saturday morning's weather forecast was cloudy with a chance of misogyny. Meteorologist Liberté Chan was in the middle of her forecast for the 8 a.m ...
One month ago, Free People, the retailer that specializes in bohemian maxi dresses and ripping off Native American designs, started selling what they called "clip-in dreadlocks" — and it wasn't ...
Boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) are big news in 2014. If Scarlett Johansson's Sodastream fiasco didn't grab your attention, perhaps the American Studies Association's boycott of Israeli ...
This trend is fascinating, in part because there's long been a taboo associated with people (particularly, women) choosing to opt out of parenthood. Women who choose not to have kids have been ...
So, all of this back and forth sparks the ultimate question: "Is it ever OK for a person who isn't Native American to wear a feather headdress?" To answer that question and more, Mic spoke with a ...
In 2001, the Portuguese government did something that the United States would find entirely alien. After many years of waging a fierce war on drugs, it decided to flip its strategy entirely: It ...
When looking for a place to live, you might consider a neighborhood's safety, its school system or its proximity to loved ones. But what about considering whether you're moving to a place that ...