Racial Issues

Missouri Hate Tweets: State Has High Rates of Homophobia, Racism, N-Word Usage (MAPS)

Compared to many other states in the country, Missouri has a high concentration of racist, homophobic tweets that include offensive, hateful language. And the tweeters are located all over the state. So says a neat new interactive map called the Geography of Hate, which analyzes geocoded tweets tha ... More >>

Washington University: Officials Suspend Sigma Alpha Epsilon After Alleged Racist Pledge Prank

The Washington University chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity is in hot water today after allegations surfaced of a pledge activity that involved photographing black students and reciting a rap with racial slurs. University administrators have officially suspended the SAE chapter and are now ... More >>

Racism in 2013: Redneck Space Travelers, Meth Smokers and Other Dumbasses

Editor: Tef Poe is an artist from St. Louis City. Through powerful imagery and complicated honesty, he has earned a reputation as one of the best rappers telling the story of St. Louis, which is about much more than one place. Poe has been featured in music publications such as XXL and Urb Magazine. ... More >>

Kevin Slaten Did Not Take Show Cancellation Well; Gets Charged with Assault

We should have known this didn't go down quietly. A spokesman for the Webster Groves police department confirms that on November 12, they were called to the studios of KFNS AM-590 where they found longtime sports jockey Kevin Slaten in, shall we say, a bit of a state. "They'd just terminated his s ... More >>

Odds Stacked Against Black Candidates, According to Some Operatives

If black candidates do not win these elections, where the odds are stacked against them, St. Louis, a city that is roughly 50 percent African American, will have no black representatives in Congress, the Missouri Senate or in the state House.

Tyler Perry's mammy gets less melodramatic but not less grotesque

Supreme Court Decision on Arizona Will Divide Nation

Dwayne L. Buckingham: Visiting Author Leads Way to True Love and Holy Matrimony

Attention ladies of St. Louis: We are in the middle of a R.E.A.L. Love Celebration. Dwayne L. Buckingham, a psychotherapist and author from Silver Spring, Maryland, has come to town to promote his new book, Qualified, Yet Single, and will explain to you tonight why even the most eligible-seeming men ... More >>

White Supremacist Black Gang Member = Meth

​Christine Byers over at the Post-Dispatch has the amazing story of crime union between an avowed white supremacist eagerly going into business with a black gang member in order to circumvent the federal laws regarding the purchase of cold medicine so they could use the pseudoephedrine to make met ... More >>

Thrown Out At Home

Equal Plights: Palmer Park centers on the tipping point of integration in the 1960s, but it's all about the 99 percent

Das Racist At The Firebird, 10/16/11: Review And Setlist

Das Racist loves white people.​Das Racist | Danny Brown | Despot The Firebird October 16, 2011 The Cardinals are going to the World Series! There's dancing in the streets of St. Louis! Or so I would imagine. I don't know for sure, because I'm in the Firebird, where Das Racist is two songs in ... More >>

Metro East Official Charged With Hate Crime

​Kevin T. Malone is facing several levels of embarrassment these days. A few of the (alleged) reasons: 1. As a 51-year-old man, he picked a fight with a 14-year-old boy. 2. As a 51-year-old elected official, he picked a fight with a 14-year-old boy. 3. As a 51-year-old elected official, he pi ... More >>

Comment of the Day: Black on Black Hatin' = Extremely Vicious Cycle

Today's comment comes from a post on City of Haterz, a new documentary exploring the question: Are St. Louis' blacks keeping each other down?Commenter "Dyarborough" has seen the film and believes it has a lot to teach.  S/he writes:

AUDIO: Maria Chapelle-Nadal Is "Off the Plantation" Not a "House Slave"

Chapelle-Nadal: Do I sound crazy? I don't sound crazy. No, not at all.​So, if you haven't heard by now, State Senator Maria Chapelle-Nadal earned the ire of many of her fellow elected officials on Tuesday when she compared them to "house slaves" during an interview on WGNU. Chapelle-Nadal made the ... More >>

Fair-y Tales: Russell Pearce and other illegal immigrant populists rely on misleading, right-wing reports to scapegoat immigrants and terrify penny-pinched Americans

The Tao of Blake

5 p.m. Sunday, November 21, at Webster University's Winifred Moore Auditorium

Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder Turns Tables on Charges vs. Tea Party, True Racist Outfit is NPR

Kinder: Tweets gone wild.​As you may be aware, the NAACP came out this week with a report connecting the Tea Party to fringe racist movements. As you can imagine, the Tea Party rejects the racist allegations. Now, one of Missouri's biggest Tea Party cheerleaders, Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, is turning ... More >>

The Show Boat Must Go On

Missouri: 10th in Number of Anti-Semitic Incidents in '09

​The Anti-Defamation League yesterday released the findings of its 2009 audit on the number of anti-Semitic incidents occurring last year in the U.S. The study found a total of 1,211 acts targeting Jews -- including 29 assaults, 422 acts of vandalism and 760 incidents of harassment. Not surprising ... More >>

James O'Keefe: Ass Clown and White Supremacist?

James O'Keefe learns that pimpin' ain't easy.​It keeps getting worse for political activist (and pride of the St. Louis Tea Party) James O'Keefe.  Last week he was arrested for illegally attempting to access the phone lines of Lousiana Senator Mary Landrieu. Over the weekend Daily RFT voters ... More >>

Race Against Ourselves

All's Well That Ends Well: Not much truth, but plenty of reconciliation in Clint Eastwood's Invictus

Congressman Clay Asks Department of Justice to Investigate Baggy-Pants-Gate

Add Missouri Congressman William Lacy Clay to the number of folks outraged that a bar in Chicago refused to allow entry to six African-American students from Washington University. Sounds like a job for Bagg'ns.​Today the the congressman asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the alle ... More >>

Tío Tomás: Is the Mexican endorsing "pocho" as a slur?

Black and Tired of Francis Slay? You Could've Done Something. You Could've Voted.

Remember the indignation in 2007 when Mayor Francis Slay demoted the city's first African-American fire chief, Sherman George? The move enraged the city's black majority. Protests followed. Slay was booed from a public speaking event, and more than a few people predicted that the feud would cost Sla ... More >>

Noon Ramble

Boyz n the Theater

Bring Back Juneteenth!

Curtis Faulkner wants to throw a $2 million party celebrating the end of slavery — and he wants you to pay for it.

John Mellencamp

Freedom's Road (Universal Republic)

Is baseball a thing of the past in the black community?

Joe thinks so.

"Zip Coon" = "Chain Hang Low"?

What do you think -- no more gorgeous Mexican guys for me?

Week of August 10, 2006

Ask a Negro Leaguer Column

Week of April 27, 2006

Ask a Negro Leaguer Column

Week of January 19, 2006

Critical Fatwa

Ja Rule

Week of November 30, 2005

Letters

Week of May 4, 2005

Black Velvet Rope

You may be 21, but that doesn't mean you're old enough to imbibe

Feed the Beast

Everybody wants Hazelwood Central's Kalen Grimes and St. Louis' junior class of hoopsters. But recruiting in the city is a courtship dance and a high-maintenance affair.

A Tale of Two Reps

Two plays at two Reps expose the cultural apartheid of St. Louis

Children of a Lesser State

A contractual snafu keeps kids from their foster and adoptive parents

Losing the Battle and the War

Were the Jack in the Box killings a crime or just sloppy police work in the name of the war on drugs?

A Twist of Faith

From her small-town Baptist roots to her run for public office, Jeanette Mott Oxford has relied on her religious convictions to overcome fear and prejudice -- including her own.

HURRICANE SEASON

Clayton native James S. Hirsch gets to the eye of The Hurricane in a new biography of Rubin Carter

THE ALL-AMERICAN MINSTREL SHOW

The black-and-white facts of the once-popular, now-reviled entertainment form

IS JOHN ASHCROFT A RACIST, OR DOES HE JUST PLAY ONE ON TV?

FORWARD BY UNPOPULAR DEMAND

Dodson murder case is one for the middle of the road

Short Cuts