Tag: race

“I was looking for texts that seem to go the extra mile in hiding something — texts that almost seem to be begging to be interpreted in terms of what’s not being said.”

During a rare opportunity to vacation in Hawai’i, Stacy Torres is forced to confront her status as better off than where she came from.

One hundred summers ago, black Chicagoans were terrorized by whites during the Red Summer. Poet Eve Ewing talks about reaching out to her neighbors across time in “1919.”

Feliz Moreno searches for an answer to the frequently asked question ‘Do you speak Spanish?’ during a trip to Mexico.

More of this sort of thing, thanks.

Daniel Immerwahr says studying the history of the Greater United States opens our eyes to how “racism has shaped the actual country itself. The legal borders of the country, but also the borders of the heart.”

When Ijeoma Oluo offers to buy her aging white mother a home, her mother worries she’s become a burden.

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.