Category: United States

  • The Surprising Story of Walter White and the NAACP Time 2015-07-01 Jennifer Latson July 1, 1893: Walter Francis White, head of the NAACP for more than 20 years, is born In the last few weeks, Rachel Dolezal—the Spokane, Wash., NAACP leader who recently left her post after being outed as white though saying that she…

  • Walter White, 61, Dies in Home Here The New York Times 1955-03-22 Walter White, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, died last night of a heart attack at his home at his home, 242 East Sixty-eighth Street. He was 61 years old. Last October he twice entered the New…

  • Naming this era of racial contradictions The Boston Globe 2015-08-01 Farah Stockman We’re entering a new era of race relations in America — a crazy, conflicting, potentially explosive era yet to be named. Maybe it’s an era of white insecurity about racial identity as the country moves toward a nonwhite majority. Dylann Roof, who murdered…

  • What It Was Like Being Mixed-Race Photographed By National Geographic Multiracial Asian Families: thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID/Asian 2015-07-29 Sharon H Chang Remember these pictures? They were part of National Geographic’s mixed race photo campaign “Changing Faces” published in October 2013. “We’re becoming a country,” stated the magazine, “Where…

  • The Original Rachel Dolezal Was a Jew Named Mezz Mezzrow Forward 2015-06-16 Seth Rogovoy As we all know, Rachel Dolezal was by no means the first white American to take on aspects of African-Americanness in her persona — calling Elvis, is anybody home? — although she will go down in history as one of the…

  • “Fake Black?” brian bantum: theology, culture, and life in-between 2015-06-12 Brian Bantum, Associate Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Washington Theorist Stuart Hall suggests identity is better understood as identification. That is, our identities are not fixed as essential realities whether gender, or race or nationality. We are always living into or out of…

  • It’s My Party and I’ll Be Biracial if I Want to College Magazine 2015-07-23 Emanuel Griffin University of Florida The fact that I am half black and half Asian is the coolest thing about me. It’s like being a one-man Wu-Tang Clan. It’s like being the handsome result of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker having…

  • Black, Jewish and challenging ideas about the face of federation Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) New York, New York 2014-12-01 Rebecca Spence (JTA) — When Ilana Kaufman, a program officer at the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation, arrived at San Quentin State Prison for a meeting with the Jewish chaplain at California’s oldest correctional facility, the…

  • “The Book of Colors” Duke Divinity School News Durham, North Carolina Wednesday, 2015-05-13 Ray Barfield, associate professor of pediatrics and Christian philosophy at Duke Divinity School, has written his first novel, “The Book of Colors,” about a 19-year-old mixed race pregnant girl who faces poverty and finds redemption in an unlikely community of skid row…

  • Here’s what I did when racists complained about an interracial family in my magazine The Washington Post 2015-07-27 Scott Vogel, Editor-in-Chief Houstonia, a city magazine based in Houston, Texas Offended by this image? Houstonia magazine doesn’t want your business. (Photo by Chris Skiles/Houstonia) Don’t compare me to business owners who refuse to serve LGBT customers…