Politics & Crime Pop Culture’s Greatest Interracial College Roommates

From the Department of Obvious, a new study is touting that having a college roommate of a different race can reduce prejudice and diversify friendships (of course, it also claims that having a white roommate can “boost black students’ academic performance,” but let’s leave that bit of fuckery alone).

But how does that bear out in real life (and by “real life,” we of course mean “television and movies”)? Hollywood clearly loves a good interracial buddy story, and nothing assuages its liberal guilt like an academic rainbow coalition. We took a look back over the past 20 years and came up with five movies and five TV shows that knew the value of educational diversity…

Music The 10 Worst Rapper Commercials Of All Time

“Memph Bleek is…Reinforced Active Fruit Concentrate.”

Perhaps it’s a sign of web video overload that the release of last week’s hilariously awful Garner Fructis shampoo ad with Memphis Bleek went largely unnoticed'either that, or Bleek really is that irrelevant these days.

But in his defense, you can’t really eat off the rap game any more. And besides, Memph man is far from the first rapper to embarrass himself while endorsing a product (he is the first MC to shill for women’s shampoo, so throw up the Roc for that). We went deep into the archives to dig up the worst-ever ads featuring rappers. See our cringe-inducing collection, as well as Bleek’s awesome ad, below