Tag: racism

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.

Rebecca Solnit argues that the American Confederacy lives on, with Donald Trump at the helm.

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

Asking difficult questions often comes at a cost.

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.

Eli Saslow says the push and pull of resistance (from angry classmates) and civil discourse (with others willing to be kind to him) is what changed Derek Black.

My origin story—as a son, and later a father and a husband; as a citizen, a racist— has always begun in a crumpled car at the side of the highway. May 30, 1982.

Aram Mrjoian reflects on his experiences of being part Armenian in America.

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

How a terrified mother tried — and failed — to be a walking-talking public service announcement.

Under the Trump administration, African immigrants are experiencing increasing deportations, though these deportees receive less media attention than deportees from Mexico and Central America.

Homicide rates in Chicago’s black communities receive a disproportionate amount of media attention in an ongoing tendency to sensationalize and pathologize their residents.

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.

The co-authors of ‘Country Music USA’ – a revised edition of the genre’s definitive history – talk about the music’s African-American tributaries, its unpredictable politics, country radio’s woman problem, and working on Ken Burns’ forthcoming doc.

Why would a successful black woman move from the Bay Area back to Mississippi?

A white woman came up to my mother, leaned in close and said, “We whites have to stick together against the Asian invasion.” My mother was ecstatic. “She liked me! They like me here!”

After a trip to Durban, Chibundu Onuzo discovers that Nigerians are not always popular with South Africans, and that where some black South Africans see a history of oppression, Nigerians see opportunity.

Jeff Sessions and the Justice Department rescinded Obama-era policy documents that provided guidelines on affirmative action.

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

Starting in the mid-19th century, and extending through the mid-20th century, Oregon was arguably the most racist place outside the southern states, possibly even of all the states.

An invitation to appear in a PSA prompts Minda Honey to reflect on the responsibilities of safe sex, and her imperfect past.

United in a common struggle, the drought has leveled the racially divided city’s physical and social barriers in profound ways.

How an otherwise high-minded social reformer preserved and perpetuated her white supremacist worldview.

Formerly controversial comic Sarah Silverman is “on a campaign to neutralize her haters with a weapon more powerful than a million burns: empathy.”

Terese Marie Mailhot knows from experience that speaking out against racism can come with a cost. But it’s a cost she’s ready and willing to pay.

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

Marie Myung-Ok Lee finds herself conflicted about attending a controversial author’s reading and wonders: what does “speaking up” actually mean?

A bygone spring: notes from an adopted hometown.