Tag: race

In a new memoir, novelist Bridgett M. Davis reveals that her mother was a Numbers operator in Detroit from the 1960s through the 1980s.

At Vanity Fair, film critic K. Austin Collins explores the shaky “true story” of Green Book, the film by Peter Farrelly starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali.

Maybe with Creed II, a black actor will get the Oscar nod instead of the one white guy.

Wrongful convictions are not isolated events. They happen in every state. They happen multiple times a week. Here’s a breakdown of how and why the innocent are locked up in America.

In Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s fantastical short story collection, the strangest fantasy of all is that people try to act morally in a corrupt world.

Hafizah Geter contemplates the personal and cultural legacy of violence against Black bodies.

Siddhartha Mahanta looks back at the small suburban starter house in Texas that helped his immigrant father redefine “home.”

Nicole Chung wants white parents of transracial adoptees to grapple more candidly with the reality of racism in America.

In an excerpt from her new memoir, ‘All You Can Ever Know,’ transracial adoptee Nicole Chung recounts how her parents came to adopt her.

Eloghosa Osunde contemplates the role of marginalized artists in online activism.

Sharmila Sen grew up understanding distinctions between castes and religions, between the educated and the illiterate. Race was a distinction she didn’t understand until she came to America.

As a mixed-race kid with free-form hair, Lisa Rosenberg believed learning to blow bubblegum bubbles would be her ticket to an idealized (white) American girlhood.

A poet reflects on finding her words in the face of injustice.

The hope and future of the United States is bound to Alabama’s.

Issac Bailey wants us to recognize that the families of perpetrators need just as much support as the families of victims.

Paying attention to the Poor People’s Campaign.

In an essay for the Guardian, writer and journalist Margo Jefferson considers how the new multiculturalism of the House of Windsor has refreshed the royal house’s relevancy and appeal. Markle majored in international relations and theatre at Northwestern University, Illinois. Besides becoming an actor, she became a feminist who worked for UN Women as an advocate for political […]

Did Dana Schutz’s painting engage with her subject, Emmett Till, ethically and responsibly?

Minda Honey explores the long unraveling of a #MeToo moment in the wake of cultural upheaval.

When Anthony Ray Hinton was sentenced to death for two murders he didn’t commit, he used his time to create a book club for death row inmates.

Lessons of race, blackness and power from a self-described nerdy Black girl.

Nicole Chung contemplates loss, adoption, and working on a book her late father won’t get to see.

Joseph Williams reports on the increasing vulnerability of renters like himself.

Dara Lurie reflects on what she discovered about her own racism while living at a state-run home for disadvantaged children.

Imran Siddiquee considers the ways in which his identities — as a Bangladeshi-American and as a man — were shaped by growing up in the shadow of The Simpsons.

Susan Sheu considers her estrangement from her conservative mom, who tried to teach her to stand up and be heard in a male-dominated world — but not to be too unladylike about it.

Hayat Norimine describes what it was like to grow up as an only child in a Japanese-Syrian household in Pullman, a town in the Palouse region of Washington State.

“Well, you might as well come and live with me now,” her employer said. “You gonna be mine eventually.”

This was the year ‘The Bachelorette’ tried to take on race. Things did not go well.

“I’d had no idea that we had ever had to define our identities at all, because to me, white Americans were born fully formed, completely detached from any sort of complicated past.”