Tag: The Washington Post

  • The untold stories of Japanese war brides The Washington Post 2016-09-22 Kathryn Tolbert, Deputy Editor Hiroko and Bill with Kathy, left, Sam and Susan. The video is the trailer to a short documentary film, “Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides,” which features Hiroko and two other war brides. They married the…

  • Virginia’s Indian tribes clear another hurdle toward federal recognition The Washington Post 2016-09-15 Jenna Portnoy, Reporter A House committee has advanced a bill that would give federal recognition to six Indian tribes in Virginia, bringing them one step closer to the end of a multi-year fight for acknowledgment of their place in the nation’s history.…

  • ‘An offer of my heart’: A story of black love after the Civil War The Washington Post 2016-09-08 DeNeen L. Brown, Reporter One hundred and forty-four years after they were written, the civil rights advocate found the letters in the bottom of an old suitcase, stacked in thin envelopes and tied together by a faded,…

  • Looking For Participants For Washington Post Podcast On Mixed-Race Identity Alexandra Laughlin 2016-09-01 I’m a journalist at The Washington Post and I am working on a podcast about mixed race identity in the United States. This is going to be a highly produced, narrative-driven podcast that explores these complex issues through storytelling. Now, I am…

  • Two-hundred forty years after the first Independence Day, Americans still live by the same color codes established before the nation’s birth. We mark each other by complexion. We assign meaningless stereotypes to people according to skin color. We adore and fear and hate people on the basis of how light or dark they are. Race,…

  • Racism twists and distorts everything The Washington Post 2016-07-08 Darryl Fears, National Enviromental Reporter For three straight mornings, I’ve eaten breakfast sprinkled with madness. Throughout this week that started with July 4, I’ve woken to horrible news that was tough to swallow. Like everyone else, I watched videos that captured the nation’s racial angst —…

  • Nothing is black and white in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s ‘An Octoroon’ The Washington Post 2016-06-06 Peter Marks, Theater critic Jon Hudson Odom, left, as George, Maggie Wilder, center, as Dora and Kathyrn Tkel as Zoe in “An Octoroon.” (Scott Suchman) “Hi, everyone, I’m a black playwright!” the actor Jon Hudson Odom exclaims at the outset of…

  • How psychologists used these doctored Obama photos to get white people to support conservative politics The Washington Post 2016-05-13 Max Ehrenfreund American politics always has surprises, but things have been especially unpredictable since President Obama took office. First, few observers were prepared for the tea party movement, which ousted several veteran GOP lawmakers, replaced them…

  • Why does the Misty Copeland Barbie doll look so … white? The Washington Post 2016-05-03 Sara L. Kaufman, Dance Critic The new Misty Copeland Barbie doll. Photographer Dennis Di Laura Stylist Sheryl Fetrick On Monday, Mattel rolled out a Barbie doll modeled on ballerina Misty Copeland, who broke the color barrier at American Ballet Theatre…

  • That awful moment parents of interracial children will probably face The Washington Post 2016-04-26 Nevin Martell “Is that your son?” the man suddenly asked, without any preamble, and with an aggressive edge to his tone. I was sitting in the dining area of a local Whole Foods after finishing the weekly shopping with my 3-year-old…