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  • Shaun King on Colin Kaepernick: He is Enormously Courageous and Has Sparked a Movement Among Athletes

    Shaun King on Colin Kaepernick: He is Enormously Courageous and Has Sparked a Movement Among Athletes Democracy Now! 2016-10-21 Amy Goodman, Host and Executive Producer Shaun King, Black Lives Matter activist and the senior justice writer for the New York Daily News, discusses NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who continued his protest Sunday against racial oppression…

  • Black People Have Every Right to Distrust You For Being Light Skinned

    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

    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,…

  • Colin Kaepernick Had No Choice but to Kneel

    Colin Kaepernick Had No Choice but to Kneel TIME 2016-10-03 John McWhorter, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Columbia University, New York, New York ‘We must understand what Kaepernick is protesting’ The idea that Colin Kaepernick’s refusal to stand during the national anthem is unpatriotic fails doubly: first, in a mistaken notion of what…

  • Rodney Harrison sorry for saying Colin Kaepernick is ‘not black’

    Rodney Harrison sorry for saying Colin Kaepernick is ‘not black’ ESPN 2016-08-29 Former NFL player and current NBC analyst Rodney Harrison has apologized on Twitter after criticizing Colin Kaepernick and his refusal to stand for the national anthem while suggesting that the San Francisco 49ers quarterback is not black and doesn’t truly understand racism. In…

  • What Colin Kaepernick’s National Anthem Protest Tells Us About America

    What Colin Kaepernick’s National Anthem Protest Tells Us About America Rolling Stone 2016-08-29 Morgan Jerkins When black athletes choose to point their aggression towards larger, systematic inequalities, there’s always backlash The role of the famous black athlete has been a polarizing one for as long as sports have dominated American headlines, going all the way…

  • ‘I Have a Black Son in Baltimore’: Anxious New Parents and an Era of Unease

    BALTIMORE — He assembled the crib and mounted the bookshelves. She unpacked the bedding and filled the closet with onesies and rompers. Then husband and wife stood in the nursery and worried. Bill Janu, a police officer, is white. Shanna Janu, a lawyer, is black. As they eagerly awaited their baby’s birth this spring, they…

  • Anti-Blackness And The Myths Of “Monoracial Privilege” & The “White/Black Binary”

    Anti-Blackness And The Myths Of “Monoracial Privilege” & The “White/Black Binary” Gradient Lair: Black women + art, media, social media, socio-politics & culture 2014-02-20 Trudy Hamilton In the last few days in social media I have seen conversations about the experiences of multiracial/mixed people of colour and these conversations have often been framed by anti-Blackness…

  • White KC mom of mixed family on why she constantly checks white privilege

    White KC mom of mixed family on why she constantly checks white privilege The Kansas City Star 2016-07-24 Aaron Randle, Culture Writer Amanda and Kenton Campbell have a mixed daughter and adopted son from Haiti “I’m so past the warm and fuzzy point,” the 36-year-old mom says Amanda Campbell is ready when you are. Ready…

  • Escaping Whiteness

    Escaping Whiteness The Huffington Post 2015-07-12 Jennifer Delton, Professor of History Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York The exposure of Rachel Dolezal, a white woman passing for black, was just a blip in a year of more urgent stories about race in the United States. Indeed, many expressed annoyance that the story was given so…