The “Kamala is a cop” meme, like any politically effective slogan, got at a more complicated truth: The Democratic Party’s romance with mass incarceration is over. Black activism ended it ...

A white woman who called the cops on an Oakland cookout is going viral as a meme that calls attention to anti-Black racism. The memes show that no matter what day-to-day activities Black people ...

The “Black guy on phone” meme shows politician Martin Baker talking on his cell phone in a photo that became a 2014 Black Lives Matter joke. During the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, Baker ...

After all-too-common acts of police brutality against Black women, the hashtag #SayHerName” now peppers social media timelines. The phrase, codified in 2014 through Kimberlé Crenshaw’s Say ...

A woman in Oakland, California, who called the police on two black men barbecuing along Lake Merritt and became the subject of a now-viral video is now proliferating social media as a meme. Who ...

Twitter users are calling each other out for turning a call for justice for Breonna Taylor into a meme. Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was sleeping on March 13 when white police ...

Black leaders push for response to racist meme and police handling of case A Maryland State Police corporal sent a text after George Floyd’s death. Three years later he retires with benefits.

The subject of the Black meme is held captive in time, as if trapped in a game of charades it will never win. This, Russell theorizes, turns a trope into a trap, creating a set of relations that ...

W hen you look up the hashtag #Karen on Instagram, a search that yields over 773,000 posts, the featured image on the page is a screenshot of a white woman staring intensely into the camera ...