Race Issues

The cast of Friday’s installment of MSNBC’s The ReidOut had a rather odd explanation for how the Republican Party has managed to win over working-class voters: racism towards former President Barack Obama. All host Joy Reid and author Christina Greer had to do was ignore that Donald Trump did better with all demographics and won in states that Obama also won.

During a discussion on the necessity of the Senate’s role in advising and consenting to cabinet appointees on MSNBC’s Friday edition of The Beat with Ari Melber, activist and lawyer Maya Wiley took a bit of a detour to attack Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth for allegedly having “white supremacist and extremist tattoos.”

Scientific American bills itself as an outlet that “covers the most important and exciting research, ideas and knowledge in science, health, technology, the environment and society. It is committed to sharing trustworthy knowledge, enhancing our understanding of the world, and advancing social justice” that “reaches more than 10 million people around the world each month.” On Thursday…

Comedian Wanda Sykes traveled to ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday to demand that Donald Trump and Republicans “shut up” and “relax” about transgender ideology being pushed on children.

As Democrats try to determine what went wrong for them after the election, NBC’s Seth Meyers had a simple message on Monday for those blaming wokeness, especially transgender sports: “[bleep] off.” Ironically, Meyers demanded those doing this look at themselves instead of blaming others, which is exactly what Meyers didn’t do.

Monday afternoon’s CNN News Central featured a surprising guest in conservative political strategist and film afficionado Giancarlo Sopo being brought into the fold to debate liberal CNN political commentator Maria Cardona on the surge in support for President-Elect Trump and the Republican Party. Sopo came ready to rumble has he repeatedly took Cardona to task with thereality that,…

The passage of a few days to allow for more mature reflection after Election Day has not affected Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart. On Friday’s PBS News Hour, Capehart attributed Donald Trump’s victory to “racism and sexism” and a list of other horribles that the country refuses to acknowledge.

On her Thursday show, MSNBC’s Alex Wagner decried the fact that when women get married, their support for Republicans goes up. Not only that, Wagner claimed that such voting patterns show a disregard for “their black and brown sisters,” whose lives are supposedly threatened by the GOP.

When seeking to explain why Donald Trump won on Tuesday, it would make sense to have a more diverse set of guests than a left-wing “antiracist” author and a Republican for Harris. However, MSNBC’s Wednesday morning election coverage was determined to stay in their bubble as co-host Ana Cabreara asked author W. Kamau Bell why Americans accepted Trump’s “mean” campaign of “racism, misogyny, [and…

The morning after the election, "Mourning" Mika is dressed all in black. Claire McCaskill is near tears, saying Trump understood the electorate better than the Democrats, that "anger and fear" work, and that America's "better angels" have fled. Al Sharpton blames racial and gender bias, and says there's a lot of "misogyny" among black and Hispanic men.

The world must be getting so much worse! Activists protest everywhere. Listening to them, I’d think hate, homophobia, racism and environmental threats are at record highs. But it’s not true. Despite our ugly election politics, for most people, life is better than ever. Our air and water are cleaner. People live longer and healthier lives. There’s less racism and homophobia. But if they admit…

Shades of Joe Biden in 2012, telling a largely black audience that Mitt Romney's "gonna put y'all back in chains." On Saturday's edition of MSNBC's The Weekend, co-host Michael Steele teed up Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a member of The Squad, to suggest that Trump would take America back to the era of Jim Crow. Pressley upped the ante, saying: "We're on the precipice of going back again to Jim Crow—…

Voto Latino CEO Maria Teresa Kumar journeyed to Comedy Central and The Daily Show on Tuesday to warn any Latino thinking of voting for Trump that their vote will not save them because Trump and his friends simply want to deport brown people.

With the election eight days away, Comedy Central decided to contribute to the Democratic campaign on Monday with a special episode of The Daily Show called Rally Together, where they sent Jordan Klepper to a series of Donald Trump rallies for the purpose of making his supporters look as dumb as possible.