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Questlove has issued an apology for some insensitive social media posts from his recent tour of Japan. This picture, which has since been deleted, pokes fun at a Japanese department store clerk’s voice: He also posted this Vine video, in which he inverts letters in a caption that appears to mock Japanese accents: Allhiphop.com reports:…

Secretary of State John Kerry is good at this diplomacy thing. On Thursday, Snoop Dogg posted a video on Instagram of him hobnobbing with Kerry at the White House. We’re not sure who Kerry is crediting for the creation of hip-hop, but in the clip he says to Snoop, “He invented your whole thing.” Snoop…

It’s been a hard year for racists, because racists seem to be really, really confused about what racism actually is. (Direct racists in your life to 1, 2 and 3 on this list.) Enter Twitter’s famous journalist Logan James, who, since October 2012, has worked to expose people who tweet the most disgusting, vile, misinformed…

Joy to the world. George Zimmerman is back on Twitter, thanking God for his freedom and promoting his original artwork. Mediaite reported Friday that Zimmerman joined Twitter as @TherealGeorgeZ, and his first tweet, dated Dec. 16, is a link to a painting he sold on eBay: It sold for more than $100,000. The rest of…

Trent Shelton, former NFL player-turned-motivational speaker and founder of the Christian-based nonprofit organization RehabTime, posted a video to his Facebook page on Dec. 11 of a young fan watching one of his talks. The girl’s mother narrates the video—which has already garnered more than 200,000 likes and shares on Facebook—as her daughter explains the importance…

Weddings! Dwyane Wade is officially engaged to his longtime girlfriend, actress Gabrielle Union. They both seem pretty happy about it, according to Twitter and Instagram. The couple took to their respective accounts on Saturday night to announce the engagement, and to show off Union’s ridiculously huge ring. (Internets: You may begin to employ Beyoncé’s “My…

So, black-cinema lovers: There’s a nine-hour conversation happening on Twitter right now. Director Ava DuVernay is making our Friday with the Rebel-a-thon event on Twitter, hosted by her organization AFFRM, which is described as a collection of “like-minded black film nerds” who “distribute the work of black independent filmmakers as [it] cultivates audiences for their…

Check out Diddy and his six children looking quite fancy on the family holiday card he shared on Twitter Thursday night: Here’s who’s who, clockwise from left: Chance, 5; Christian, 15; Diddy; Justin, 19; twins D’Lila and Jessie, 5; and Quincy, 22, in the bottom center. You should know that Diddy posts photos of his…

Hacking Twitter, the best-selling book about the social network’s meteoric rise to dominance, will be the basis of a new televisions series, Lionsgate announced Wednesday. If you’ve read the book, you know that Hacking Twitter is mostly about wealthy white men fighting over money and ideas. The show might not get any more interesting than…

<a href=”http://feministcurrent.com/author/meghan-murphy-2/” title=”Posts by Meghan Murphy founder of The Feminist Currant, has pissed quite a few people off with her latest post “The Trouble with Twitter Feminism.” In it, she details the problems she’s encountered while engaging with feminists on Twitter, and expounds on why she thinks “Twitter is a horrible place for feminism.” Among…