In November 2019, just after the film Twitter was outraged over news that white actor Julia Roberts was “suggested” by a studio executive to play Harriet Tubman, a black woman and a former slave turned abolitionist hero: Memes popped up in response to the viral brouhaha, one depicting Roberts in Tubman’s spot on the American $20 bill: …
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Testimony from the United States’ top emissary to the European Union about Ukraine has sent shockwaves through political circles and sparked rumors, hearsay, and memes.
A partial quote of the Fox News commentator did not match up with the actual context of his remarks.
No one is genuinely claiming that the climate activist is a time traveler from the past and future, here to save us from climate change.
Many people remember the blockbuster ‘Scary Movie’ parodying ‘The Sixth Sense’ with an “I see white people” line, but it’s not in the film.
The “We’re On It” campaign launched as part of an effort to stem the state’s addiction epidemic.
Prominent Black South Carolinians objected to being implicated as supporters of the Democratic candidate.
A purported lament from a “principal’s publication” in 1815 addressed students’ over-reliance on paper and their inability to manage writing on slates without getting chalk dust everywhere.
A viral post about a “little white envelope” and a “man who hated Christmas” was dated 2015, but it appears to actually be far older than that.
Rumor has it that as the fourth and final season of the alternate-reality Amazon series aired, the production’s remaining swastikas and Nazi iconography met an unusual fate.
