The Aunt Jemima brand of syrup and pancake mix will get a new name and image, Quaker Oats announced Wednesday, saying the company recognizes that "Aunt Jemima's origins are based on a racial stereotype."
The 130-year-old brand features a Black woman named Aunt Jemima, who was originally dressed as a minstrel character.
The picture has changed over time, and in recent years Quaker removed the "mammy" kerchief from the character to blunt growing criticism that the brand perpetuated a racist stereotype that dated to the days of slavery. Read More...
For the first two years of Joe Biden’s administration, his Iran strategy centered on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement. A deal that enriches a murderous regime is not an agreement at all, but rather a strategic folly. It is high time for an alternative strategy that takes advantage of the regime’s domestic vulnerabilities to advance U.S. interests and to help quench the thirst of freedom for the Iranian people. Read More...
Not all celestial creatures are pretty faces and today on Epic Monsters we’re cracking into one of the weirder ones: the six-winged seraph! Also known as a saraph, in Christian angelology the seraphim have the highest rank, they’re in the middle in Judaism, and only rarely appear in Islam. These six-winged angels fly around the Throne of God crying "holy, holy, holy" in a cycle of self-nullification as they ascend to the heights of the heavens for revelations, fall in the immensity of what they learn, and ascend anew in a perpetual, tireless, energetic existence. Read More...
