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NBC will not air next year's Golden Globes, according to a statement from the network.

I recently came across the term "white-savior movies." According to critics, this is a type of film that features a white hero or heroine entering the life of a helpless, troubled, often clueless Black person and, as one Black critic puts it, "swoops in" to turn his or her life around. In an article called "Top 5 Most Cringeworthy White Savior Films," a critic named OnlyBlackGirl offered this definition: "If you're not familiar with the 'white savior complex' it's basically is when there's a person or community of color facing some hardship and some white figure swoops in on their...

Chet Hanks, son of the Hollywood actor Tom Hanks, has been criticized for using a “racist” font on his new collection of merchandise which is also controversially called White Boy Summer. His black and white range of clothes, which include hoodies, T-shirts, shorts, tank tops, leggings, caps and bike shorts, has been called out online for its use of a Gothic-style font that is close to the one used by white nationalists. It’s also similar to the Fraktur fonts, which were used in Nazi Germany most prominently on the cover of Hitler’s Mein Kampf book. “Hmm unfortunately the merch looks...

Oxford University is considering proposals that would remove sheet music from its curriculum over claims that the Western form of musical notation has roots in “colonialism” and “complicity in white supremacy”. In response to widespread Black Lives Matter riots in the United Kingdom, music educators at Oxford have joined the wider iconoclastic movement which has been sweeping through British academia. The music department at the prestigious and ancient university has seen calls to remove music notation from the curriculum as professors seek to focus less on white European heritage and culture. The woke educators went on to claim that musical...

Teen Vogue's new editor Alexi McCammond has resigned less than two weeks after taking the job over anti-Asian tweets she wrote as a teenager which surfaced online and cost Conde Nast a seven-figure ad campaign. McCammond's resurfaced tweets include one in which she wrote: 'Googling how to not wake up with swollen Asian eyes'. Another now-deleted tweet read: 'Give me a 2/10 on my chem problem, cross out all of my work and don't explain what I did wrong… thanks a lot stupid Asian T.A. you're great.'

Oscar nominees were announced this week. The AP highlighted the record number of nominations of "actors of color" and "a record year for women." Today, such declarations are important in this "woke" media world. Future Oscars will have actual quotas for minority groups. Actor David Oyelowo praised the new standards, saying, "Anyone and everyone who is on that list of marginalized groups that are now going to be represented, are cheering." No. Not all are cheering. "Black, white, Asian... none of that should matter," says musician Eric July in my new video. July, who is Black, complains that quotas cheapen...

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) tweeted his support for Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) on Saturday, after the latter faced backlash from CNN host Don Lemon for saying that "woke supremacy" is as bad as "white supremacy."... ...Speaking on Fox News Monday, Scott railed against what he calls "woke supremacy," after MSNBC host Joy Reid suggested that, as the only Black GOP lawmaker in the Senate, Republicans use him as a "prop."...