Tag: race

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.”

“The goal, however, was the same as ever: fear. And it worked.”

Authorities in New York City are using foster care as punishment against poor, non-white families.

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw offers a sharp rebuke to those who would declare our country “post-racial.”

Amanda Machado adds her voice to the growing chorus of women of color claiming their place in the rugged outdoors.

In Harper’s, Solnit considers who has access to what spaces, and with what limitations?

Zadie Smith examines the racially-charged work of Jordan Peele’s ‘Get Out’ and Dana Schutz’s ‘Emmett Till’

Oluo’s interview is a master class in confrontation, in which the hard questions are asked and the answers are pushed.

How one woman finally styled her hair in a way that determined who she was and demanded that her loving grandmother accept her decision as a sign of strength.

In Nashville, an exploration of the current obsession with the city’s signature dish: hot chicken.

Louisiana Rien Fertel explores the complex history of New Orleans’ flambeaux — the men who carry the torches that light the way for Mardi Gras parades — in Oxford American.

Frederick McKindra examines how James DeMonaco’s The Purge and Jordan Peele’s Get Out turn the the horror genre’s racial dynamics upside down.

Tim Burrows travels from London to the English countryside to talk with regular folks about the changing UK, race, immigration and the reasons behind Brexit.

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.

“The very foundations of my way of life are in white supremacy, and the list of microaggressions I have committed, and will no doubt continue to commit in spite of my “good intentions” for as long as I’m alive, is virtually endless.”

Nikole Hannah-Jones explores the rhetoric of Donald Trumps’s appeals to black voters and calls on the Democratic Party to stop taking Black support for granted.