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  • “We Are Not Used to People Thinking We Are Beautiful”

    One day, Baudier came upon a group of three young girls sitting in an empty inflatable pool, putting on makeup. One of them, who was twelve years old, dabbed her face with a whitening powder to create a paler effect. She didn’t like being called “Afro-Mexican,” she said.

  • The Many Lives Of Pauli Murray

    She was an architect of the civil-rights struggle—and the women’s movement. Why haven’t you heard of her?

  • The Forgotten Work of Jessie Redmon Fauset

    Among the events that helped to crystallize what would come to be known as the Harlem Renaissance was a dinner, in March, 1924, at the Civic Club, on West 12th Street. The idea for the dinner was initially hatched by Charles Spurgeon Johnson, the editor of Opportunity, a journal published by the National Urban League…

  • An Unsung Hero in the Story of Interracial Marriage

    An Unsung Hero in the Story of Interracial Marriage The New Yorker 2016-11-17 David Muto, Copy Editor/Senior Web Producer Bill and Carol Muto on their wedding day, eight years after the U.S. Supreme Court, in Loving v. Virginia, struck down interracial-marriage bans. COURTESY BILL AND CAROL MUTO At my parents’ wedding, in Blacksburg, Virginia, my…

  • Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency

    Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency The New Yorker 2016-11-28 David Remnick, Editor Inside a stunned White House, the President considers his legacy and America’s future. The morning after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, Barack Obama summoned staff members to the Oval Office. Some were fairly junior and had never been…

  • Emotional Obama Tearfully Thanks Trump for Granting Him Citizenship

    Emotional Obama Tearfully Thanks Trump for Granting Him Citizenship Borowitz Report The New Yorker 2016-09-16 Andy Borowitz WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Calling this “the greatest day of my life,” a visibly moved Barack Obama held a news conference on Friday to thank Donald Trump for granting him U.S. citizenship. “The issue of whether or not I…

  • A Tale of Racial Passing and the U.S.-Mexico Border

    A Tale of Racial Passing and the U.S.-Mexico Border The New Yorker 2016-07-20 Jonathan Blitzer The African-American businessman William Ellis, pictured here around the year 1900, frequently passed as Mexican. COURTESY FANNY JOHNSON-GRIFFIN Some people knew him as William Ellis, and others as Guillermo Eliseo. He could be Mexican, Cuban, or even Hawaiian, depending on…

  • Invisible Bridges: Life Along the Chinese-Russian Border

    Invisible Bridges: Life Along the Chinese-Russian Border The New Yorker 2016-02-09 Peter Hessler In the summer of 2014, Davide Monteleone, an Italian photographer who had lived in Moscow for more than a decade, began to travel to the Russian-Chinese border in search of something that felt real and reliable. “I had been covering the uprising…

  • The Complicated History of Nikki Haley

    The Complicated History of Nikki Haley The New Yorker 2016-01-13 Jelani Cobb, Staff Writer; Professor of History University of Connecticut Like President Obama, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley—who delivered last night’s Republican response to the State of the Union—has harnessed the rhetoric and symbolism of racial progress. Credit Photograph Courtesy C-SPAN Set aside the feuding…

  • Contributors: Allyson Hobbs

    Contributors: Allyson Hobbs The New Yorker 2015-09-22 Allyson Hobbs began writing for newyorker.com in June, 2015. She writes about race, gender, politics, and culture. She is an assistant professor in the History Department at Stanford University. Allyson’s first book, “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life,” published by Harvard University Press…