Tag: The Huffington Post

  • White Model Apologizes After Her Photo Shows Up On Blackhair Magazine The Huffington Post 2016-11-21 Zeba Blay “I’m very sorry this cover was taken away from a black woman,” she wrote. Blackhair magazine had some explaining to do after mistakenly featuring a white model rocking afro-textured hair on the cover of its latest issue. The publication, known…

  • MTV Decoded Answers The Question ‘Are Hispanic People White?’ Latino Voices The Huffington Post 2016-08-25 Carolina Moreno, Editor It’s complicated. When it comes to matters of race and ethnicity, things can get very complicated. Thankfully, Franchesa Ramsey is always ready to decode everything. In a new episode of MTV News, the host of “Decoded” tackled…

  • Richard Pryor’s Daughter Opens Up About The Racism Her Family Faced In Beverly Hills The Huffington Post 2016-08-18 Lisa Capretto The Oprah Winfrey Network “I’m a product of this thing that everyone was against.” When Rain Pryor was born in 1969, her father, Richard Pryor, had already begun transitioning from a relatively mild joke-telling comedian…

  • 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…

  • What Scientists Mean When They Say ‘Race’ Is Not Genetic The Huffington Post 2016-02-09 Jacqueline Howard, Senior Science Editor A new paper explains why it can be dangerous to think otherwise. If a team of scientists in Philadelphia and New York have their way, using race to categorize groups of people in biological and genetic…

  • “I think the media does a great job of wanting to silo who we are as Americans… They’re like, ‘Oh, that’s the immigrant issue, that’s the African-American issue, that’s the Asian issue.’ No, it’s us. And until we understand that we have a vested interest in all these different topics we can’t actually come together…

  • 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…

  • On The Free State Of Jones The Huffington Post 2016-06-20 Steven Hahn, Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of History University of Pennsylvania Three quarters of a century ago, “Gone with the Wind,” a film that mythologized an Old South of wealthy planters and obedient slaves, premiered in Atlanta amidst great fanfare and public…

  • 9 Famous Faces On The Struggles And Beauty Of Being Afro-Latino The Huffington Post 2016-02-18 Carolina Moreno, Editor Afro-Latinos face many challenges when it comes to identity, particularly when people refuse to believe that being Black and Latino aren’t mutually exclusive experiences. The Latino identity denotes an ethnicity, which means that Latinos exist in every…

  • A Brazilian Artist’s ‘Self-Portraits’ Explore The Beauty Of Interracial Identity The Huffington Post 2016-06-17 Katherine Brooks, Senior Arts & Culture Editor In honor of mestizaje, Adriana Varejão paints herself donning the markings and ornamentation of Native Americans. In 1976, a Brazilian census asked citizens of the country — for the very first time — to…