A Virginia family arrived home from Walmart and a police officer was waiting for them. The police officer was dispatched to the home by Walmart’s security to question Joseph – a white man choosing not to reveal his surname – about kidnapping three biracial girls. Too bad the children belong to Joseph and his wife,…
Was it something I said? Was it my resume? My race?
Soledad O’Brien has a schtick, and she sticking to it. That schtick is race and all things encompassing it. O’Brien was recently named a distinguished visiting fellow at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, and during a speech last week, told the school’s Institute of Politics that she’s often confronted by whites who want to take issue with…
Though Eve is back on the scene with a new album “Liplock,” she really never left the blogosphere due to her relationship with race car driver, Maximillion Cooper. Though she’s said “she can’t believe she’s with a white dude,” the rapper is head over heels for the British entrepreneur and is talking marriage and children with…
Burnt. Black skin. Dirty. I’ve been called the worst names from fellow Singaporeans.
The Root recently started a new advice column called “Race Manners”, and the first question it answered was submitted by a white woman with a biracial child: “I’m a Caucasian woman with a biracial child (her father is black). I live in a predominantly white community. Why is it that whenever people discover that I…
Zoe Saldana is media blitzing for her upcoming film projects, including “Nina” and “Star Trek.” The Puerto Rican and Dominican actress graced the May covers of Latina and InStyle’s spring hair issue and bared her soul for those willing to listen. Many women of color, particularly black American women, tuned out after she accepted the…
How can we facilitate people learning more information about Jewish people and their culture? Put a Jew in a box and let folks ask him questions! That seems to be the rationale behind a Jewish museum’s unusual exhibit called “The whole truth…everything you always wanted to know about Jews.” One of the exhibit’s features is…
There was and still is a need for black women to be represented on the newsstands, both in magazines that target us and in mainstream magazines that embrace diversity. Though Essence Magazine caters to an audience of African-American women, many still champion the need for major magazines like Vogue, Vanity Fair and Cosmopolitan Magazine to feature…
Cicero-North Syracuse High School in Cicero, New York, is preparing a theatrical performance of “The Wiz.” Students have been practicing for weeks, belting tunes performed by Diana Ross and Michael Jackson down the Yellow Brick Down. But none of the featured cast in a beloved black American classic is black. Parents are outraged and the…
