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  • Coast Guard: Wreck found in Atlantic is storied cutter Bear

    BOSTON — The wreck of a storied military ship that served in two World Wars, performed patrols in waters off Alaska for decades, and at one point was captained by the first Black man to command a U.S. government vessel has been found, the Coast Guard said Thursday.

  • ‘People Assume I’m White. This is The Racism I See’

    ‘People Assume I’m White. This is The Racism I See’ Newsweek 2021-10-14 Nikki Barthelmess Nikki Barthelmess’ parents were Mexican American and Jewish, but people often assume she is white, not Mexican American. Nikki Barthelmess A few months ago, I answered a knock at my door. My neighbor, James*, launched into a complaint. “That silver Honda…

  • Race and Racism: When Racial Passing Becomes Racial Fraud

    Race and Racism: When Racial Passing Becomes Racial Fraud Virtual event on Zoom Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Western University London, Ontario, Canada Thursday, 2021-10-14, 19:00-20:30 EDT (2021-10-14, 23:00-00:30Z) Meena Krishnamurthy, Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada In the past year and a half, race and racism have been at the forefront…

  • Jeremiah Paprocki becomes Cubs’ first African American public-address announcer

    There’s a booming new voice in Wrigleyville, and it belongs to 21-year-old Jeremiah Paprocki. The Cubs hired Paprocki to be their new public-address announcer, making him the first African American in team history to hold the position. He also is thought to be the youngest P.A. announcer in Major League Baseball.

  • Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments

    The conceptual, language-driven short stories in “Counterfactual Love Stories & Other Experiments” are an exploration of not just mixed-race/hapa identity in Michigan (and the American Midwest), but also of the infinite ways in which stories can be told, challenged, celebrated, and subverted.

  • High Yella: A Modern Family Memoir

    In his remarkable and moving memoir, Majors gathers the shards of a broken past to piece together a portrait of a man on an extraordinary journey toward Blackness, queerness, and parenthood.

  • Single Race

    Single Race Scary Mixed: Because Being Mixed Isn’t Scary Enough A Dafina Moore Site2020-09-17 Dafina Moore Single race privilege is not understanding I am not a single race. Single race privilege is trying to make me pick one of those races and not understanding why that is difficult. Single race privilege is trying to explain…

  • The Myth of Asian American Identity

    We’re the fastest-growing demographic group in the U.S. But when it comes to the nation’s racial and ethnic divisions, where do we fit in?

  • Very Little Is Keeping Doctors From Using Racist Health Formulas

    If nothing in medicine changes, it’s just a matter of time before yet another race-based risk calculator harms people of color.

  • The children born to Black American GIs and white British women during Second World War

    The children, who came to be known by the British press as the nation’s “Brown Babies”, grew up in post-war Britain