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Kenan Thompson said something dumb. We all responded. And Saturday Night Live listened. Yay for democracy. Deadline reports that Sasheer Zamata will join SNL as its newest cast member. She’ll be the first black female cast member on the show since Maya Rudolph left five years ago. Zamata, who first made a name for herself…

Watch this footage of the King of Pop taking lessons from black Greeks on the art of stepping in 1993. According to the video description, a group of Alphas, AKAs, Deltas and Sigmas were rehearsing for the “Is It Scary” project, an MJ song written for the 1993 film Addams Family Values that never made…

So, @BeccaRum, a white Twitter user (troll?) whose account is now suspended, pondered out loud about black folks, racism and why she feels discriminated against because she wasn’t invited to join black Twitter: ‏@BeccaRum This racism has to stop y’all. ‏@BeccaRum I am getting really sick and tired of being classified as a white person…

Beyoncé posted a photo to her Instagram account on Monday, in which she’s sitting on top of the counter at Jugofresh juice bar in Miami, posing in front of Andy Warhol’s mural of The Last Supper. It appears that she took Jesus’ seat at the table. Is Bey sending not-so-subtle hints that she is the…

MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry apologized to the Romney clan on Twitter today for off-color comments she and a panel of comedians made about a family photo in which Kieran Romney, Mitt Romney’s adopted black grandchild, is front and center. On Sunday, Perry hosted a gang of funny men and women for her year-end “A Look…

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…