I was astonished. Of course the paper was mine. I had an undergraduate degree in English and had spent years writing term papers. I knew how to construct theses, build arguments, footnote and cite sources. And - quite unlike my fellow students - I liked the course and had participated enthusiastically in class discussions, something the professor seemed to genuinely appreciate.
"the best hangover food you could ever have - you could stand on the gravy"
Hayley Williams is happy to confirm that Morgan Wallen is the "racist country singer" she is referring to in her song " Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party." During a recent interview on the New York Times' " Popcast" to discuss her latest solo album, the Paramore lead singer was asked whether she would like to "name names" to reveal who she means when she sings about being "the biggest star / At this racist country singer's bar" in the title track. "It could be a couple but I'm always talking about Morgan Wallen," Williams said. "I don't give a s-. Find me at Whole Foods, b-, I don't care."
On Thursday, Vance took to X to respond to a clip of Reid discussing racism in the United States. The original video was taken in March, but was reposted by a conservative social media account this week. In the talk, Reid discusses that her parents got a rude awakening after immigrating to the United States. My mother got the rude awakening, like, oh, it's racist here, that's weird, she said, adding that her mother realized this was not a land of opportunity for Black people.
We have no voters left because of all of our woke trans bullsh*t. Not even Black people want to vote for us anymore. Even Latinos hate us. So we need new voters. And if we give all these illegal aliens free health care, we might be able to get them on our side so they can vote for us. They can't even speak English.
If we would have said three weeks ago, Blake, if we had said that that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative-action picks, we would have been called rrrrrrrr-racist.' But now they're comin' out and they're saying it for us! They're comin' out and they're saying, I'm only here because of affirmative action.
Partnered for the first time, Reyes and Kim are under the direction of the great Francesca Zambello who, by her own count, is directing West Side Story for the 12th time, including productions at the Bregenz Festival on Lake Constance and an outdoor show overlooking the harbor in Sydney, Australia. In the U.S., she helmed productions at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera and the Glimmerglass Fest
It was a shock to someone who grew up with a sense of solidarity between Black Caribbean and Irish immigrants I've always had an affinity for Irish culture. Yes, in that irritatingly reductive, romanticised way that everyone who isn't Irish seems to. But also in a way that, for a number of reasons, has long felt deeply meaningful. Rooted in strong familial bonds. In overlapping histories. In trust.
In a statement relating to the latest incident, a Metropolitan police spokesperson said: On Friday 29 August an officer reported seeing racist graffiti inside Charing Cross police station. Specifically, the graffiti was in a toilet area accessible to officers, staff and other people with access to that part of the building. An investigation was immediately opened into a hate crime and is being carried out in liaison with the directorate of professional standards.
If you've ever worked a job - or, more specifically, for a manager - that made you question your entire life, you're not alone. Recently, u/gargoyle_dream asked, "What's the most hilariously awful thing an employer has ever said to you?" The responses were equal parts unhinged, infuriating, and, honestly, horrible to the point of hilarity. So, here are some of the most jaw-dropping things people have actually heard from their bosses:
An earlier police investigation into Jones' expenses found no evidence of fraudulent activity. Laura Anne Jones had been a Conservative Member of the Senedd (MS) for South Wales East at the time of the allegations. She defected to Reform in the summer. BBC Wales reported last year that Jones had apologised for the use of a racist slur in a text exchange about Chinese-owned video app TikTok.
What jumps out in her images of musicians, however, is the wariness in their eyes and gestures-even from the courtly Duke Ellington. "I know of no photographer who has photographed people as inwardly as Lisette Model," the photographer Berenice Abbott wrote. Perhaps shared experiences of persecution connected Model, who had fled the Nazis in Europe, with her subjects. Even as the U.S. government used jazz to promote America's image abroad, the genre's luminaries suffered racism and violence at home.
The text messages circulating around Sydney's Sutherland shire in early December 2005 explained precisely the purpose of the gathering. Just a reminder that Cronulla's 1st wog bashing day is still on this Sunday, one read. Chinks bashing day is on the 27th and the Jews are booked in for early January. On Sunday 11 December, more than 5,000 people, mostly young men, swarmed Cronulla beach. They wore Australian flags as capes, they had drawn the Eureka flag on their bodies.
She never expected to be met with hostility and suspicion. Like me, my sister is a Black mixed-race woman. My son is, at a glance, white-presenting, with blond hair and blue eyes. As they travelled together on the London underground, a woman looked at my son, looked at my sister and asked coldly: Are you child-minding? It was humiliating and invalidating.
Women's Super League players will resume taking the knee this season after England's Lionesses abruptly stopped performing the symbolic gesture at last month's European Championship. England's players announced they would no longer be taking the knee before their semi-final against Italy because of the racist abuse aimed at Jess Carter during the tournament. The 27-year-old defender was targeted online by several individuals, with the first of what is expected to be several arrests in the case made on Thursday.
For the past couple of years, we've been living on the family farm in the Midwest for a few months a year, to make sure the pipes don't freeze, keep the vermin down, etc., before another family comes for the summer. My husband isn't crazy about this arrangement (he's a city kid, and the farm is in a rural, red area), but loves the family, and realizes we save hella money this way. For the record, we are both progressive politically, feminist, anti-racist, etc.
xAI's Grok chatbot experienced a significant backlash after referring to itself as 'MechaHitler' and delivering offensive and racist sentiments, leading to the loss of a major government AI contract.
