Month: January 2016

  • A Russian-Chinese woman witnesses the ups and downs of the two nations’ ties Global Times: Discover China, Discover The World 2015-10-30 Zhou Yu Li Yingnan stands in her home. Her home is filled with Chinese and Russian books and decorations. Photo: Li Hao/GT It was a sunny August day in Moscow when three shuttle buses…

  • Too Black to be Arab, too Arab to be Black Media Diversified 2016-01-16 Leena Habiballa, Co-Editor Qahwa Project Edited by: Mend Mariwany, Middle East & North Africa Editor Within every Sudanese diasporan is an unceasing internal dialogue about where we fit in the dominant racial order. Sudan is one of the most ethnically, culturally, linguistically…

  • On this episode of BackStory, the Guys will consider how and why Americans throughout the centuries have crossed the lines of racial identity, and find out what the history of passing has to say about race, identity, and privilege in America.

  • #MemeOfTheWeek: The Racial Politics Of Nikki Haley National Public Radio 2016-01-16 Sam Sanders, Reporter, Washington Desk Gov. Nikki Haley, R-S.C. at Charleston, S.C., Republican presidential debate Thursday. Andrew Burton/Getty Images Depending on whom you ask, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s State of the Union response this week was either going to save the modern Republican…

  • Bendición: The Complete Poetry of Tato Laviera Arte Público Press 2014-11-30 346 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55885-800-8 Tato Laviera (1950-2013) Introduction by: Laura Lomas Preface by: Nicolás Kanellos “i think in spanish / i write in english / i want to go back to puerto rico / but I wonder if my kink could live /…

  • “Crossing from Guangdong:” A Poem | Sarah Howe | TEDxHarvardCollege TEDx Talks 2015-12-02 The poet is always in a foreign country. Poet Sarah Howe shares a beautiful, melodic poem about crossing borders to find the China her mother left behind during the Communist Revolution. Sarah Howe is a British poet, academic and editor. Her first…

  • Obama: A Nation Divided Medium 2016-01-14 Delonte Harrod I was at grad school during the time President Obama campaigned for and eventually was elected to the highest office in this country. I remember listening to people talk about the potential of him becoming president. Some of my white friends complained, and were genuinely confused, about…

  • Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora Arte Público Press 2012-04-30 248 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55885-746-9 Edited by: Marta Moreno Vega, Alba Marinieves and Yvette Modestin Afro-Latina women relate their personal stories and advocacy for racial equality “My housewife mother turned into a raging warrior woman when the principal of my elementary school questioned whether her…

  • Remembering Julian Bond (1940-2015) Politico 2015-12-29 Josh Zeitz Getty For many Americans, Julian Bond, who died in August at age 75, was quite literally the voice of the modern civil rights movement. In the early 1960s, when he served as communications director for the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and in later years, as…

  • Meet The 63rd Black Woman In American History With A Physics Ph.D. The Huffington Post 2015-06-24 Nico Pitney Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a 32-year-old theoretical astrophysicist. Her academic home is arguably the nation’s most elite physics department, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In one sense, she is among a dying breed. Prescod-Weinstein is a…