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  • What are you: Engaging Parents of Multiracial Children in Preschool

    What are you: Engaging Parents of Multiracial Children in Preschool The Huffington Post 2016-05-27 Makai Kellogg, Lead Teacher School for Friends, Washington, D.C. “If you can go shopping and be assured that you will not be followed or harassed, step forward.” There was no more space left. I rushed to the door and opened it…

  • Ghana To Ban Skin Bleaching Products in August

    Ghana To Ban Skin Bleaching Products in August The Root 2016-05-29 Angela Bronner Helm, Adjunct Profesor of Journalism City College of New York The government of Ghana will ban all products containing hydroquinone this summer. Colorism, that which privileges lighter skin over darker, is an issue that not only affects African Americans, but pretty much…

  • The Story in My DNA

    The Story in My DNA The Huffington Post 2016-05-24 Hope Ferguson Like many African Americans, I grew up not knowing where I came from. There was no “old country” for us. Obviously, I knew that most slaves were brought from Central and West Africa. I heard family stories about being part Native American – that…

  • Race, revolution and interracial relations: Revisiting rapper Emicida’s video ‘Boa Esperança’, the most courageous video of 2015

    Race, revolution and interracial relations: Revisiting rapper Emicida’s video ‘Boa Esperança’, the most courageous video of 2015 Black Women of Brazil 2016-04-25 Note from BW of Brazil: Get ready! Today’s piece is one of those long articles in which you must read every word in order to get the full significance. The rapper known as…

  • White Colorism

    White Colorism Social Currents Volume 2, Number 1 (March 2015) DOI: 10.1177/2329496514558628 pages 13-21 Lance Hannon, Professor Department of Sociology & Criminology Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania Perhaps reflecting a desire to emphasize the enduring power of rigidly constructed racial categories, sociology has tended to downplay the importance of within-category variation in skin tone. Similarly, in…

  • Knowledge Session: Who Was Lena Horne?

    Knowledge Session: Who Was Lena Horne? I Am Hip-Hop 2015-07-07 Rishma Dhaliwal Lena Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was born in Brook­lyn, New York, on June 30, 1917. Her father, Edwin “Teddy” Horne, who worked in the gambling trade, left the fam­ily when Lena was three. Her mother, Edna, was an act­ress…

  • The Great Migration and African-American Genomic Diversity

    The Great Migration and African-American Genomic Diversity PLOS Genetics 2016-05-27 27 pages DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006059 Soheil Baharian Department of Human Genetics McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Genome Quebec Innovation Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Maxime Barakatt McGill University and Genome Quebec Innovation Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Christopher R. Gignoux Department of Genetics Stanford University School of Medicine,…

  • Tim Brannigan, a real black Irish republican

    Tim Brannigan, a real black Irish republican The Irish Times Dublin, Ireland 2016-05-28 Fionola Meredith When Tim Brannigan was born his mother persuaded a doctor to declare him a stillbirth. Then she gave him to an orphanage – coming back a year later to ‘adopt’ the son she couldn’t admit she’d had. After that he…

  • Where Are You Really From?

    Where Are You Really From? Culture Northern Ireland 2010-04-10 Joanne Savage Race, republicanism and a mothers love in Tim Brannigan’s memoir Peggy Brannigan met Michael Ekue at a dance in Belfast in 1965. She was from Beechmount; he was a medic from Ghana. Their eyes met, they danced and sparks flew. She was gorgeous and…