Category: United States

  • White Nonsense Vice News 2016-10-09 Elspeth Reeve Alt-right trolls are arguing over genetic tests they think “prove” their whiteness Andrew remembers feeling a “tinge of apprehension” when he logged on to 23andMe. Several weeks earlier, he’d spit into a tube and mailed it to the genetic testing company, which analyzes customers’ DNA to estimate where…

  • My dad is Black and from the US. My mom is Scottish-Irish. I came out very light skinned. For most of my early childhood I was universally read as white. It wasn’t until I hit puberty and entered into a largely Puerto Rican middle school that I started being seen as Latino—a shock both because…

  • Black Lives Matter Wonderland 2016-10-11 As the Black Lives Matter conversation continues to unfold the world over (BLM crowds stormed London City Airport as Wonderland went to press), we asked Emma Dabari, a teaching fellow at School of African Studies, to organise a debate between a few of London’s most independently-minded young creatives. Emma Dabiri,…

  • Author Gerald Horne talked about his life and career and responded to viewer comments and questions. His most recent book is “Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary.”

  • Speaker Series: Memory, History, Race, and America’s National Parks Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 515 Malcolm X Boulevard New York, New York 10037 Tuesday, 2016-10-18, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time) As a young girl Lauret Savoy developed a deeply personal connection to the American land, visiting numerous national parks with her parents. But as she traversed…

  • Federal officials may revamp how Americans identify race, ethnicity on census and other forms Pew Research Center 2016-10-04 D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer/Editor Federal officials are moving ahead with the most important potential changes in two decades in how the government asks Americans about their racial and Hispanic identity. They include combining separate race and Hispanic…

  • One Drop of Love is Headed to Broadway! Theater Row 410 West 42nd Street (between 9th and 10th Avenues) New York, New York 10036 Thursday, 2016-10-13, 19:30 EDT (Local Time) Sold Out! Sunday, 2016-10-16, 14:00 EDT (Local Time) How does our belief in ‘race’ affect our most intimate relationships? One Drop of Love travels near…

  • The Dilemma of Interracial Marriage: The Boston NAACP and the National Equal Rights League, 1912–1927 Historical Journal of Massachusetts Volume 44, Number 1, Winter 2016 Zebulon Miletsky, Professor of Africana Studies Stony Brook University, State University of New York On a wintry evening on February 1, 1843, a group of Boston’s African American citizens gathered…

  • Why Self-Identifying As Multiracial Is Still New And Not Automatic For Me Swirl Nation Blog 2016-10-12 Sarah Ratliff I grew up in New York City during the 1960s and 70s. Although I grew up in a very racially, ethnically and culturally diverse area—which included several interracial families—it wasn’t the norm to raise kids in that…

  • One man’s quest to preserve the haunting black history of Pocahontas Island The Washington Post 2016-09-26 Gregory S. Schneider POCAHONTAS ISLAND, Va. — He roams from house to house along the quiet streets of this little neighborhood, giving voice to its history and spirits. The collection of modest homes, tucked between an empty lumber factory…