By Elaine Hsieh Chou When I graduated from college, I moved to Taipei to teach ESL. One afternoon on the train, I overheard two white men discussing Asian women with an unfiltered openness achieved only under the guise of total privacy. They’d assumed no one around them could understand English. By this point, I’d arrived at…
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Read More Black Mortgage Applicants with Almost Highest Income Approved at Same Rate as White Applicants with Lowest IncomeJudge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem to apply to her or the other adults in charge. by Meribah Knight, Nashville Public Radio, and Ken Armstrong, ProPublica Oct. 8, 5 a.m. EDT What happened on that…
Read More Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge.Yara Shahidi Jessica Szohr Mariah Carey Dwayne Johnson Keegan-Michael Key Tracee Ellis Ross Gabrielle Reece Val Kilmer Jason Momoa Naomi Campbell Christina Aguilera Norah Jones Wentworth MIller Derek Jeter Shay Miller Keanu Reeves Olivia Munn Vanessa Hudgens Halsey Adriana Lima How many of these celebrities could “pass?” Is “passing” even a thing these days? How…
Read More Mixed-Race Celebrities – Did You Know?“In 2004, at the Unity journalists of color convention in Washington, Gwen Ifill coined the phrase “missing white woman syndrome,” joking that “if there is a missing white woman you’re going to cover that every day.” It is not that these white women should matter less, but rather that all missing people should matter equally. Race should…
Read More Missing White Woman SyndromeSEP. 8, 2021, AT 6:00 AM By Nathaniel Rakich and Elena Mejía It took several months, but Texas Republicans have finally enacted their much-debated bill rolling back voting access in the Lone Star State. Back in the spring, disagreements between Senate and House Republicans delayed the final vote on the proposal until the last day of Texas’s regular legislative session, making it…
Read More Texas’s New Law Is The Climax Of A Record-Shattering Year For Voting RestrictionsBy Christy Clark-Pujara and Anna-Lisa Cox SMITHSONIANMAG.COM AUGUST 27, 2020 In 1834 there were even more riots against African Americans, most notably in New Haven, Connecticut, Philadelphia, and New York City. The mayor of New York allowed the destruction of African American homes and businesses to continue for days before finally calling out the state…
Read More How the Myth of a Liberal North Erases a Long History of White ViolenceAnalysis by Ronald Brownstein Updated 1:16 AM ET, Fri April 23, 2021 Far right White supremacist groups, conservative media personalities and now Republicans in Congress are trying to inflame nativist feelings among conservative Whites by warning that liberals want immigrants to “replace” native-born Americans in the nation’s culture and electorate.But that racist “replacement theory” inverts the real consequence of…
Read More The racist ‘replacement theory’ has it all backwardCommentator Maisie Sparks proves that when fighting for your rights reveals something in common with your “enemy,” the outcome can be a win for both sides – and for society. Read HERE.
Read More Contesting a traffic stop leads to justice – and mercyTo be the Black mother of a child who appears white can raise all kinds of questions and comments from strangers. Even the “nice” comments are loaded with assumptions about beauty and belonging. By listening to her own family history, reading the narratives of women who raised children while enslaved in her home state of North…
Read More Raising Mixed KidsIsabel Wilkerson writes in chapter 8, “Hitler had made it to the chancellery in a brokered deal that conservative elites agreed to only because they were convinced they could hold him in check and make use of him for their own political aims.” Wilkerson continues, “By the time they recognized their fatal miscalculation, it was…
Read More Caste by Isabel WilkersonBy Channon Hodge, CNN Updated 4:00 AM ET, Sun October 11, 2020 A new documentary, “Driving While Black,” digs deep to untangle a twisted reality. Black people continually face danger behind the wheel, and it’s rooted in history. The two-hour film, premiering October 13 on PBS, winds its way from slavery to Jim Crow to the advent…
Read More Filmmakers unearth a long trail of racism in ‘Driving While Black’By Anna Bahney, CNN Business Updated 9:00 AM ET, Sat October 10, 2020 Black Americans pay more than any other group to own a home, a disparity that contributes to roughly half of the $130,000 retirement savings gap between Blacks and Whites, according to new study from MIT. Black homeowners pay more in mortgage interest, mortgage…
Read More Black Americans are paying more to own a home and falling further behindTHE LEFT BEHIND: WHY ARE WHITE AMERICAN CHRISTIANS SO RACIST? BY DANIEL SCHULTZ AUGUST 5, 2020 [W]e white Christians have not just been complacent or complicit; rather, as the nation’s dominant cultural power, we have constructed and sustained a project of perpetuating white supremacy that has framed the entire American story. The legacy of this unholy union…
Read More WHY ARE WHITE AMERICAN CHRISTIANS SO RACIST?Counting Down with #19 Suffrage Stories: 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment Tune in on Instagram and Twitter to learn 19 stories you may not know from the Library of Congress, Smithsonian and National Archives. Every weekday from August 3 through Women’s Equality Day, August 26, we’re counting down from 19 to 1 with a…
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