Tracey Wallace

"Have you ever noticed how in Hollywood movies all the bad guys are played by Brits?" Well, Jaguar sure has, and in the brand's 2014 Super Bowl commercial (which premiered online days before the big game) Ben Kingsley, Mark Strong and Tom…

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery (though J.Cole doesn't agree), and if that's true, then rapper Angel Haze is racking up a lot of good karma points.  She's famous for her incredible covers — covers that proved that she was a star…

Scarlett Johansson can't catch a break with her new controversial ad, slated to run during the Super Bowl (though Fox shut that whole thing down).  The issue is pretty obvious: Johansson is endorsing a health drink company that operates out of a…

Pharrell Williams' Grammys hat is the newest award show-inspired meme taking over the Internet. It inspired a parody Twitter account, gave Arby's a golden advertising opportunity and spawned on a flurry of snarky Smokey Bear tweets. But Pharrell,…

Revenge porn is now a crime in Israel, punishable by up to five years in jail.  The country's parliament, the Knesset, passed a new law in January that criminalizes the posting of nude photos or videos of others without their consent. The Israeli…

On Monday, while much of the U.S. remembered the work and message of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a photo emerged of Russian socialite and Garage Magazine editor Dasha Zhukova sitting on a chair in the shape of a half-naked black woman. Image…

Left-leaning media publications have been utilizing the transformative effects of photoshopping to get clicks lately (looking at you, Jezebel). But scandals about $10,000 offerings for un-retouched photos of celebrities aside, there are real…

Americans are no strangers to politicians using underhanded tactics to pass bills, especially when it comes to abortion. This past summer in Texas, Governor Rick Perry (R) called a special session to revive the previously defeated measure on…

Leave it to Queen Bey to take something as polarizing as feminism and make it — gasp — marketable.   On Monday, Beyoncé wrote an essay on income inequality between men and women. She wrote, "We need to stop buying into the myth about gender…

Meryl Streep stuck it to Disney at the National Board of Review Awards last Sunday night, when she called out the company for its sexist and racist past.  "Some of [Disney's] associates reported that Walt Disney didn't really like women," Streep…

Over the past few years, Somalia's militia has banned smoking, soccer, wearing bras and all things considered "western." Now, the Al-Qaeda-linked group Al Shabab is going after the source of spreading western customs: the Internet.  In a statement…

South Sudan officials are meeting for peace talks concerning the country's past two weeks of incessant violence. The violence is a result of tight tensions caused first when South Sudan President Salva Kirr fired his vice president Riek Machar in…

Two members of the Russian punk group Pussy Riot have officially been freed after serving a two-year prison sentence in Russia for "hooliganism." They were punished for a performance of their political anthem, "Punk Prayer," at the altar of…

Imprisoned Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina were released three months early on Thursday from Russian jails. The women were sentenced to two years in prison after being charged with hooliganism in June of 2012. The news…

The rumors were true. Saturday Night Live held secret auditions to cast a black comedienne.  When SNL premiered on Sept. 28, fans were dismayed to find that of the six new cast members added to the 39th season of the show, none were black women.…

In addition to cover art for her long-awaited album, Angel Haze just released a lyric video for her newest song "A Tribe Called Red." Like her other pieces, while the song's beat pulls you in, it's the lyrics that take center stage.  The song is a…

Mandela's life, his tenacity to never lose sight of hope, his willingness to fight even at times when all seemed lost, is perfectly captured in a new YouTube video posted by George the Poet.  George, a 22-year-old British man, is a spoken-word…