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  • Your Blackness Isn’t Like Mine: Colorism And Oppression Olympics

    Your Blackness Isn’t Like Mine: Colorism And Oppression Olympics The Huffington Post 2016-06-28 Sil Lai Abrams Monday night, actor and activist Jesse Williams gave a powerful speech at the BET Awards upon receiving the Humanitarian Award, during which he spoke eloquently, passionately, and dare I say — even lovingly to the audience of millions. I…

  • How Jesse Williams Stole BET Awards With Speech on Racism

    How Jesse Williams Stole BET Awards With Speech on Racism The New York Times 2016-06-27 Katie Rogers Jesse Williams accepting the humanitarian award at the BET Awards on Sunday in Los Angeles. Credit Matt Sayles/Invision, via Associated Press The BET Awards Sunday featured tributes to Prince and Muhammad Ali, and a performance by Beyoncé and…

  • Go Off!: Amandla Stenberg on Intersectionality and the Impact of White Supremacy

    Go Off!: Amandla Stenberg on Intersectionality and the Impact of White Supremacy Colorlines 2016-06-02 Kenrya Rankin, News Editor “I cannot separate my gender from my race from my sexual orientation. If in that moment I’m speaking out about gender, then I’m also in some way speaking out about race and about feminism.” In the latest…

  • You Can’t Go from Zero to ‘The Daily Show’: The Playboy Interview with Trevor Noah

    You Can’t Go from Zero to ‘The Daily Show’: The Playboy Interview with Trevor Noah Playboy 2016-05-19 David Hochman, Contributing Editor Has there ever been a more auspicious moment to chase after clown cars on the road to the White House? Since bravely taking over for Jon Stewart as host of The Daily Show last…

  • Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence

    Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence University of Georgia Press May 2016 336 pages Trim size: 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8203-4956-5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-4957-2 Author Website Edited by: Chad Williams, Associate Professor of African & Afro-American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Kidada E. Williams, Associate Professor of History Wayne State University,…

  • Jews of Color Get Personal and Political at First-Ever National Gathering

    Jews of Color Get Personal and Political at First-Ever National Gathering Forward 2016-05-04 Sigal Samuel, Opinion Editor If you want to get black Jews, Mizrahi Jews and a Palestinian-American Muslim to burst into tears at the same time, invite Yavilah McCoy to talk about hair. Speaking at the opening plenary of the Jews of Color…

  • “Diversity” Won’t Challenge Jewry’s Role in White Supremacy

    “Diversity” Won’t Challenge Jewry’s Role in White Supremacy Jewschool: Progressive Jews & Views 2016-04-27 Mark Tseng Putterman New York, New York In addition to my own mother, “Linda” was the only other Asian American woman at the Reform synagogue I grew up attending. It was a friendly, liberal, and white Jewish space in our affluent…

  • I Can’t Breathe

    I Can’t Breathe Boston Review 2016-03-21 Anne Fausto-Sterling, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor Emerita of Biology and Gender Studies Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Race in Medical School Curricula In the fall of 2015, U.S. college students ignited in protest about campus and national racism. Chanting “I Can’t Breathe” and “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot”—recalling the final…

  • Russo: Telling my biracial boys the truth

    Russo: Telling my biracial boys the truth The Cincinnati Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio 2016-02-21 Regina Carswell Russo Hyde Park resident Regina Carswell Russo is a public relations professional, cultural arts ambassador and CEO of RRight Now Communications. My beautiful sons are blissfully unaware of their blended heritage. More specifically, their blended race. It’s how my husband…

  • I sat beside Obama at the Black Lives Matter meeting. This was no political show

    I sat beside Obama at the Black Lives Matter meeting. This was no political show The Guardian 2016-02-20 Brittany Packnett The author sits beside Barack Obama’s in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on 18 February. Photograph: Carolyn Kaster/AP Some political meetings devolve into theater. Not this one: we all spoke direct truth to…