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Soledad O’Brien: ‘OK, White Person, This Is A Conversation You Clearly Are Uncomfortable With’

Yesha Callahan — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:45:37 +0000

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...

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Eve on Raising Biracial Kids: “I Want Them To Be Colorblind”

Clutch — Fri, 03 May 2013 22:06:06 +0000

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...

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I’m A Brown Person And I Live In A Racist Country

XOJane — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:16:09 +0000

Burnt. Black skin. Dirty. I’ve been called the worst names from fellow Singaporeans.

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Advice To A Parent Of A Biracial Child

Yesha Callahan — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:43:11 +0000

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...

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Zoe Saldana Talks Race, Beauty and Nina Simone in “InStyle” and “Latina”

Evette Dionne — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:26:05 +0000

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...

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How Not to Have an Intelligent Discussion about Race and Ethnicity

Demetria Irwin — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:23:59 +0000

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...

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Jada Pinkett-Smith Asks If Essence Magazine Should Feature White Women On The Cover

Clutch — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:53:06 +0000

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...

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An All-White “The Wiz” Cast Causes Uproar

Evette Dionne — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:58:45 +0000

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...

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Lena Dunham Finally Responds To Lisa Lampanelli’s N-Word Tweet

Clutch — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 00:07:44 +0000

Lena Dunham inadvertently found herself in the middle of a race debate after Lisa Lampanelli tweeted a picture of the twosome with the caption: “Me and my nigga @LenaDunham of @HBOGirls — I love this beyotch!!” Lampanelli’s tweet set off a firestorm of criticism by Twitter users and writers, prompting her to eventually address it. Rather...

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Are Google’s Search Algorithms Racist? MIT Researcher Thinks So

Yesha Callahan — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:52:49 +0000

Latanya Sweeney seems to think she’s cracked an interesting facet of Google’s search algorithms. Sweeney, a MIT researcher, discovered that searching for ”black sounding” names are up to 25 percent more likely to be served with an arrest-related ad. “There is discrimination in delivery of these ads,” she concludes. From The Physics arXiv Blog: Sweeney’s interest is in the ads that appear...

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