Hundreds of protesters have called for The New York Post to close down over a political cartoon of a monkey that black civil rights leader Al Sharpton considers a racial reference to US President ...

Reactions are as varied as they are strong to Tuesday's New York Post cartoon that depicted the police shooting of a chimpanzee. Two police officers, one with a smoking gun, are near the chimp's ...

A political cartoon depicting a chimpanzee as the drafter of the American financial stimulus bill has sparked a racial row in the United States, with Democratic leaders up in arms against the New ...

The cartoon in today’s New York Post is troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African-Americans as being synonymous with monkeys.

So while some of the cartoon's defenders have pointed out that chimp imagery was used frequently to ridicule President Bush, this parallel ignores the troubling history of monkey-imagery in ...

A former editor for The New York Post is suing the paper for allegedly firing her after she complained about a cartoon that likened President Barack Obama to a violent chimp.

The cartoon generated significant controversy, and here on the Riff, Daniel Luzer’s defense of it as “just a joke about monkeys” was picked up by Gawker, who pointed out that even “lefty ...

The cartoon portrayed Cruz in a Santa outfit and cowboy boots cranking a box to make two Christmas-clad monkeys dance.

Oscar-qualified Spanish animated short The Monkey features an intriguing mix of cultural and historical touchstones from Spain and the U.K. while touching on the timeless theme of hatred used as a ...

Jane Alexiadis: Vintage 'Scopes Monkey Trial' cartoonQ I am a volunteer at the Walnut Creek Historical Society’s Shadelands Ranch Historical Museum. We are trying to determine the value of a ...

Tired of being teased as “the monkey boy,” Philip Colello of Wethersfield initiated a lawsuit Friday against school officials for what he says was the malicious insertion of a cartoon m… ...