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Ijeoma Oluo

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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads February 22, 2019October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Ijeoma Oluo, Patricia Lockwood, Michael Shaw, Mairead Small Staid, and Adriana Gallardo.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Color of Money

by Sari Botton February 22, 2019October 19, 2022

After her book, So You Want to Talk About Race, becomes a bestseller, Black author Ijeoma Oluo offers to build her white mother a home with her earnings and learns how race can affect the ways adult children care for their aging parents.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women

Reclaiming Our Rage

by Sari Botton January 22, 2018October 19, 2022

Here’s to more women embracing their anger instead of defaulting to sadness.

Anti-death penalty activists march with a sign to free Jeff Wood
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads January 19, 2018October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from Sabine Heinlein, Leslie Jamison, Ijeoma Oluo, Eric Newcomer with Brad Stone, and Jill Lepore.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Conversation I’ve Been Dreading: Ijeoma Oluo Talks About Race with Her Mom

by Sari Botton January 18, 2018October 19, 2022

An essay excerpted from So You Want to Talk About Race in which Ijeoma Oluo writes about a messy, uncomfortable, and important conversation she had with her white mother about race and racism.

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads April 21, 2017October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories by Ijeoma Oluo, Michael Hall, Erika Hayasaki, Jerry Saltz, and Caren Chesler.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women

‘You Can Help in Ways That I Cannot’: Ijeoma Oluo on Putting Your White Privilege to Work Against Racism

by Sari Botton March 20, 2017October 19, 2022

A manifesto of the anti-racist movement for white people and others who are just joining.

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads March 17, 2017October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories by Sam Knight, Rick Perlstein, Ijeoma Oluo, Keziah Weir, and George Saunders.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Welcome To The Anti-Racism Movement — Here’s What You’ve Missed

by Sari Botton March 17, 2017October 19, 2022

Writer Ijeoma Oluo schools well-meaning white people–who are late to the party–in the hard, thankless work of relinquishing their unearned privilege and fighting racism.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?

by michelleweber January 16, 2017October 19, 2022

Who and what are we really commemorating on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day? Ijeoma Oluo unpacks the myriad ways Dr. King’s story has been softened and re-written to weaken black activism and bolster white supremacy.

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