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  • A Russian-Chinese woman witnesses the ups and downs of the two nations’ ties Global Times: Discover China, Discover The World 2015-10-30 Zhou Yu Li Yingnan stands in her home. Her home is filled with Chinese and Russian books and decorations. Photo: Li Hao/GT It was a sunny August day in Moscow when three shuttle buses…

  • Too Black to be Arab, too Arab to be Black Media Diversified 2016-01-16 Leena Habiballa, Co-Editor Qahwa Project Edited by: Mend Mariwany, Middle East & North Africa Editor Within every Sudanese diasporan is an unceasing internal dialogue about where we fit in the dominant racial order. Sudan is one of the most ethnically, culturally, linguistically…

  • #MemeOfTheWeek: The Racial Politics Of Nikki Haley National Public Radio 2016-01-16 Sam Sanders, Reporter, Washington Desk Gov. Nikki Haley, R-S.C. at Charleston, S.C., Republican presidential debate Thursday. Andrew Burton/Getty Images Depending on whom you ask, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s State of the Union response this week was either going to save the modern Republican…

  • Obama: A Nation Divided Medium 2016-01-14 Delonte Harrod I was at grad school during the time President Obama campaigned for and eventually was elected to the highest office in this country. I remember listening to people talk about the potential of him becoming president. Some of my white friends complained, and were genuinely confused, about…

  • Remembering Julian Bond (1940-2015) Politico 2015-12-29 Josh Zeitz Getty For many Americans, Julian Bond, who died in August at age 75, was quite literally the voice of the modern civil rights movement. In the early 1960s, when he served as communications director for the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and in later years, as…

  • Meet The 63rd Black Woman In American History With A Physics Ph.D. The Huffington Post 2015-06-24 Nico Pitney Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a 32-year-old theoretical astrophysicist. Her academic home is arguably the nation’s most elite physics department, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In one sense, she is among a dying breed. Prescod-Weinstein is a…

  • Phoebe Boswell: The Matter of Memory Africanah.org: Arena for Contemporary African, African-American and Caribbean Art Amsterdam, Kingdom of the Netherlands 2015-02-05 Yvette Greslé, Art Historian/Writer Edited by Rob Perrée Phoebe Boswell. ‘The Matter of Memory’, 2013-14. Installation view at Carroll/Fletcher [detail]. Courtesy the artist and Carroll/Fletcher. I settle into an armchair and am surprised by…

  • Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America [Brunsma Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 39, Issue 3, 2016 pages 492-494 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2015.1095308 David L. Brunsma, Professor of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America, by Edward Telles and the Project on Ethnicity and Race…

  • A Mixed Race Feminist Blog Interview with Isabel Adonis A Mixed Race Feminist Blog 2016-01-15 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom About Isabel Adonis I’m a private tutor, artist and writer and I live in Wales. My mother was a white Welsh woman and my father was a black man from Georgetown in Guyana. He…

  • Tío Tomás’s Cabin: Marco Rubio and White Cubanidad Latino Rebels 2016-01-14 Jason Nichols, Lecturer in African American Studies University of Maryland Last semester I had a young man turn in an assignment in which students were instructed to write to a current presidential candidate. This particular student had been outspoken and one of the more…