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  • Going to College and Learning You’re Black: The Moving Story of Little White Lie

    Going to College and Learning You’re Black: The Moving Story of Little White Lie Vanity Fair Vanity Fair’s Hollywood 2014-11-25 Chase Quinn “You boys are black, and don’t you forget that.” From an early age I was taught that both my black identity and my white-Irish identity were important, and that I was never to…

  • 11-2 Insight Dr. Yaba Blay Author of One Drop – Shifting the Lens on Race

    11-2 Insight Dr. Yaba Blay Author of One Drop – Shifting the Lens on Race Power 99FM, WUSL-FM Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2014-10-30 Loraine Ballard Morill, Host Yaba Blay, Assistant Teaching Professor of Africana Studies Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dr. Yaba Blay author of (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race talks about the changing definition of race…

  • Explaining Ferguson to interracial children

    Explaining Ferguson to interracial children KSDK TV-5 St. Louis, Missouri 2014-11-27 Christina Coleman, Anchor-Reporter Family Counselor Michael Herold strongly recommends having plenty of discussions about the different cultural traditions experiences that make up the child’s racial background on both sides of their family. View the video here.

  • The new threat: ‘Racism without racists’

    The new threat: ‘Racism without racists’ Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-11-27 John Blake They showed people a photograph of two white men fighting, one unarmed and another holding a knife. Then they showed another photograph, this one of a white man with a knife fighting an unarmed African-American man. When they asked people to identify…

  • Barack Obama, Ferguson, and the Evidence of Things Unsaid

    Barack Obama, Ferguson, and the Evidence of Things Unsaid The Atlantic 2014-11-26 Ta-Nehisi Coates, National Correspondent Violence works. Nonviolence does too. In a recent dispatch from Ferguson, Missouri, Jelani Cobb noted that President Obama’s responses to “unpunished racial injustices” constitute “a genre unto themselves.” Monday night, when Barack Obama stood before the nation to interpret…

  • Fake Diversity and Racial Capitalism

    Fake Diversity and Racial Capitalism Medium 2014-11-23 Nancy Leong, Professor of Law Sturm College of Law University of Denver For decades now, it’s been fashionable for institutions of all kinds to showcase their racially diverse constituencies. This is true even when the institution in question has been sued for discrimination on the basis of race,…

  • Glenn Chavis: Inquiry helps shed light on mixed-race heritage

    Glenn Chavis: Inquiry helps shed light on mixed-race heritage The News & Record Greensboro, North Carolina 2014-11-25 Glenn Chavis, Community Columnist I recently received a call from a professor emeritus at Jackson State University who is working on a project dealing with a Tri-Racial Isolate group called Turks, who once made Sumter County, S.C., their…

  • Grad student Alex Finley found her roots — and more

    Grad student Alex Finley found her roots — and more William & Mary News and Events The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 2014-11-24 Jim Ducibella, Communications Specialist This is part one of a two-story series. Check back Nov. 26 for the second part. – Ed. As a child, Alex Finley remembers going through…

  • Obama failed Ferguson. The prosecutor is pathetic. Between the split-screen, the protesters get it

    Obama failed Ferguson. The prosecutor is pathetic. Between the split-screen, the protesters get it The Guardian London, United Kingdom 2014-11-25 Steven W. Thrasher, Columnist for Guardian US Politicians have found themselves on the wrong side of the gap between the fantasy of what the law does and the reality that people live There we had…

  • Undoing Race? Reconciling Multiracial Identity with Equal Protection

    The number of multiracial individuals in America, many of whom define their racial identity in different ways, has grown dramatically in recent years and continues to increase. From this demographic shift a movement seeking unique racial status for multiracial individuals has emerged. The multiracial movement is distinguishable from other race-based movements in that it is…