Category: Articles

  • Passing: A Bi-Racial Perspective On Racial Inequality In America Cappuccino Queen 2014-12-03 Hera McLeod In the past few years, it seems like topic of race has gotten to a boiling point many times. Particularly, it seems, as it relates to the American Justice System. When Trayvon Martin was gunned down in February of 2012, I…

  • Justine Jane M. Bolin (First Negro woman judge in the U.S.A.) The Crisis Volume 49, Number 9 (September 1939) THE COVER Miss Jane M. Bolin became on July 22 the first colored woman Judge in the United States when Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia appointed her and swore her in as a justice of the Court of…

  • Putting The Past Behind Them: Slave Descendant Unites With Plantation Owner Growing Wisconsin 2016-07-13 Lynne Hayes The dinner was historic on many levels. On one side of the table sat Nkrumah Steward, 44, the ancestor of a slave. On the other side of the table sat Robert Adams, the ancestor of the man who owned…

  • Half-Asian Tattooers Use Art To Confront Mixed Race Stereotypes Konbini 2016-08-04 Morgan English Five Asian-Canadian artists (some female, some genderqueer) have joined forces for a new exhibit that explores what it means to be half-Asian in the west. Of the crew, four are also tattooers: Nomi Chi, Mandy Tsung, Shannon Elliott and Katie So. Their…

  • Glamour Exclusive: President Barack Obama Says, “This Is What a Feminist Looks Like” Glamour 2016-08-04 Barack Obama, President of the United States Washington, D.C. The Perk of a “45-Second Commute” The President has spent “a lot more time” watching Sasha and Malia (here, meeting Mac the Turkey in 2014) grow into women. Official White House…

  • In ‘Black Lotus,’ Author Sil Lai Abrams Explores Search For Racial Identity Here & Now WBUR 90.9 FM, Boston, Massachusetts 2016-08-03 Sil Lai Abrams, author of “Black Lotus: A Woman’s Search for Racial Identity.” (Courtesy of Che Williams) When Sil Lai Abrams was a child, her white father and her Chinese mother explained her dark…

  • The country’s education leaders confront deep-seated discrimination in the classroom through rap.

  • Beyond Blackness and Whiteness: Activists of Mixed Race Speak Out The Los Angeles Review of Books 2016-08-02 Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn SHORTLY BEFORE Alton Sterling’s and Philando Castile’s names became viral hashtags on social media, the latest flare-up in the ongoing conversation about race and racial justice in the United States had been sparked by actor…

  • Obama, America, and the Legacy of James Alan McPherson Literary Hub 2016-08-01 Whitney Terrell Whitney Terrell Remembers His Friend and Mentor The title story of James Alan McPherson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning short story collection Elbow Room opens with an italicized passage: Narrator is unmanageable. Demonstrates a disregard for form bordering on the paranoid . . .…

  • Favourite for Ukip leader Steven Woolfe misses application deadline The Guardian 2016-08-01 Rowena Mason, Deputy political editor MEP and migration spokesman could be out of leadership race but insists he is still a candidate Steven Woolfe, the favourite to succeed Nigel Farage as Ukip leader, could be out of the race after he missed the…