With a hit web series and a potential show coming on HBO, comedian Issa Rae is making her akwardness pay off. The Senegalese immigrant to the US says she “didn’t know how to be black,” and never quite fit in with any group of kids around her. But that’s proved to be a gold mine for comedy.
India has been engaged in a long debate over the way its women are treated. The latest battle in that ongoing war came on Twitter recently, when someone posted a picture of two men sitting on Delhi metro seats reserved for women. It didn’t go over well. That and more in today’s Global Scan.