“MultiChoice may be the name of television providers, but its customers are running out of choices when it comes to programming. Conservative Nigerian subscribers were r with I Am Cait 's portrayal of transgender  identity that they complained loudly enough to their country's broadcast regulator, which then pulled the show from its listings in countries across the  The move is the l in which LGBT identity has become a battleground in African politics.  Nigeria pulled "I Am Cait," which means Caitlyn Jenner's show...”

“Franchesca Ramsey is the host of MTV's weekly video series, " Decoded ," where she tackles race, taboos and pop culture. In typical fashion, she didn't hold back in addressing stereotypes about Asian men and women.  Decoded released a segment on "the weird history of Asian men" on YouTube Monday, in which Ramsey breaks down the reasons Asian men are deemed unattractive and effeminate while Asian women are widely fetishized. She also did a great impression of white men boasting about their obsession with Asian women....”

“You say you want a revolution — well, you know, Dr.  Jill Stein wants to change the world. The Massachusetts physician says she and the Green Party can carry on the work of Bernie Sanders if, as expected, he doesn't overcome Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary. Read more:  Bernie Sanders Just Took a Huge Step Toward Igniting His "Political Revolution" And Stein says if the legions of millennials — many gasping for air from beneath crushing student debt — would follow her in rejecting the "corpora...”

“When reality TV dumpling Honey Boo Boo Child declared that "everybody's a little bit gay" three years ago, she was unknowingly taking a page out of sexologist Alfred Kinsey's book. His famous  Kinsey scale , which identifies people's levels of same- or opposite-sex attraction with a number from zero to six (zero being exclusively straight, six being exclusively gay), has been a favorite cultural metric for measuring sexual orientation since it was created in 1948.  But even though asking someone where they fall on...”

“For the few women who found their way into billionaire Donald Trump 's campaign, there are significant pay disparities between them and the men who make up roughly 75% of the presumptive GOP nominee's staff.  There are only 18 women working on the Trump trail, compared to 52 men, according to his May financial disclosure report . Meanwhile, leading Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton 's campaign staff includes 51% women and 731 total staffers, with fairly equitable pay for male and female employees with simila...”

“A 400-pound Western lowland silverback gorilla named Harambe was shot and killed  by staff members at the Cincinnati Zoo after a 4-year-old boy fell into the gorilla exhibit Saturday.  Read more:  A Male Gorilla Was Killed in Order to Protect a Child That Fell Into His Enclosure Now, the mother of the boy, who was seen being dragged by Harambe in the exhibit before the gorilla was shot, has allegedly spoken out online.  VIDEO: Harambe and 4-year-old...http://bit.ly/27XIEqA Michelle Gregg, a woman claiming she is th...”

“Naturally, this isn't sitting well with the Twitterati. On Friday, Twitter user @ARCTICALNAGAR — Sara — posted a satirical spin on a promposal that played to a handful of Muslim stereotypes. Donning a burqa, a teen apparently named Austin popped the prom question to one Kiana with a hand-made sign that read, "I know I always wait until the last second but prom would be the bomb with you," a bundle of faux dynamite taped to the sign and the drawing of an explosive in place of the word.  Retweeting a photo of the ove...”

“Most Americans celebrate Memorial Day with a delicious barbecue. But here's something some are adding to their grill list: the Confederate flag. South Florida activist John Sims is leading an effort to turn Memorial Day into Confederate flag-burning day, reported Think Progress  on Sunday. Sims previously organized 13 small flag-burning events across the 13 states of the Confederacy earlier this month, according to IBT, with the justification "the Confederate flag is the N-word on a pole." Now, he's providing d...”

“I every day we hear good news about a group of high school boys and the way they treat young women. But this tale about a group of students at James Hillhouse High School in New Haven, Connecticut, fills our hearts with pride. Source:  Kiyama Movement T are fundraising to provide free feminine products for their classmates. They're founding members of the , promotes self-improvement among African-American men and mutual respect across genders.  "This is an opportunity for us as young men to help diminish the ineq...”

“For progressive advocates, efforts to reform the criminal justice system in Washington these days leave much to be desired.  Despite the fact that a bill that attempts to stem mass incarceration is probably the only major piece of legislation that has a chance of garnering bipartisan support this year, the proposals so far have been fairly tepid  and have  stalled in the Senate.  But a new report offers some reasons for optimism: states across the nation have been implementing a wide array of reforms in their ow...”