Editor's note: This article is about a virulently racist song. Read no farther if you wish to avoid racist imagery and slurs. "Nigger Love A Watermelon Ha! Ha! Ha!" merits the distinction of the most ...

This week an NPR blogpost went viral teaching us that “Turkey in the Straw,” an American folk song dating to the early 1800s and played by so many ice cream vans today, is actually a hidden racist ...

Bad news, my sweet summer children: The ice cream truck is racist. There’s always been something a little sinister, conceptually, about the “ice cream man”—he’s a man who drives around in a van full ...