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A true advertising face-plant happens when a commercial is both tone-deaf and completely forgettable. spxChrome/iStock via Getty Images by Matthew Pittman, University of Tennessee What makes...

by Kevin Welner, University of Colorado Boulder Proponents of charter schools insist that they are public schools “open to all students.” But the truth is...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Fox has sold out its ad space for the 2014 Super Bowl. Fox Sports said, in a news release, that ads...

Beyonce performs during the Pepsi Super Bowl XLVII Halftime Show football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Ravens, in New...

Jasiri X talks about grassroots activism in the Obama/Tea Party Era at Columbia College in Chicago. (Courtesy Photo Bakari Kitwana/Andrew Bryce Photography) Members of the Black intelligentsia let out a collective victory cry last week when hip-hop artist Lil Wayne lost a multi-million dollar endorsement deal with Mountain Dew as a result of lyrics comparing the beating of murdered teenager Emmett Till in 1955 to female genitalia.

    I started last week by being traumatized by an ad released by Mountain Dew, which I referred to as “the most...

by LZ Granderson (CNN) -- I went online this morning to see the Mountain Dew ad -- the one some are calling the most racist in history -- expecting to see some really offensive stuff. Instead, I saw some really silly stuff.

BEYONCÉ (Photo/ https://beyonce.tumblr.com) by Breeanna Hare (CNN) -- With a song like "Standing on the Sun," it's only natural that Beyoncé would turn up the heat to promote it.