Tag: Huffington Post

  • Stephen Colbert Is Confused About G. K. Butterfield’s Race In Latest ‘Better Know A District’ The Huffington Post 2014-03-25 Carol Hartsell, Senior Comedy Editor Stephen Colbert unveiled a new edition of “Better Know A District” on Monday’s show, and it was chock-full of racial misunderstandings, confusing questions and barbecue taste tests… like all of his…

  • As an American, I follow my roots like trails across the globe. My mother is from Kansas and is of German descent, and my deceased father was black with roots in North Carolina, and before then, Africa. Arguably you can trace all of us back to Africa. But my parents’ union created me: a black…

  • What the ‘Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful’ Meme Really Means The Huffington Post 2013-08-22 Marcia Dawkins, Clinical Assistant Professor of Communications University of Southern California, Annenberg The New York Times’ Motherlode blog recently posted a thought-provoking article called, “Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful.” The author’s experiences as a parent to a racially-ambiguous mixed…

  • Coming Out As Black The Blog The Huffington Post 2013-05-24 Elaine Vilorio, High School Senior Northern New Jersey I’m Black. After many years in the closet, after many years of breathing that stale air of self-denial, I can finally say this. Growing up, I dreaded the question “What are you?” I always proudly answered that…

  • Kiss Me, I’m 1/16 Irish: African-, Irish-, and the Hyphenated-Americans The Huffington Post 2013-03-15 Theodore Johnson, Op-Ed Columnist, 2012 White House Fellow Years ago, I spent Saint Patrick’s Day in an Irish pub singing ditties with a restaurant full of my newest friends—and left feeling a little green with envy. The Irish-American traditions and fare…

  • The Silly Debate Over Whether Obama is Black or Mixed-Race The Huffington Post 2008-06-14 Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Political Analyst and Social Issues Commentator Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama gave the best answer to the question whether he’s black, mixed race or something in between. He recently told a Chicago fundraiser crowd that to some…

  • Census Race Change For Hispanics Sparks Criticism The Huffington Post 2013-01-09 Tony Castro Some Latino civil rights groups are questioning the U.S. Census consideration of designating Hispanics a race of their own, fearing the loss of national original designations. The change, making “Hispanic” a racial instead of an ethnic category, would eliminate the check-off boxes…

  • The Obama Era: A New Age in American Politics The Huffington Post 2012-12-05 Brandon Hill Stanford University Barack Obama’s elections—both 2008 and 2012—have inaugurated a new political reality in America. He has rewritten history in two consecutive elections, and his groundbreaking victories will forever change the game of politics in our country. Before 2008 the…

  • Black (Or Not) Like Me: Thoughts on CNN’s Black in America 5 The Huffington Post 2012-12-10 Smokey Fontaine, Chief Content Officer Interactive One I know who my colleagues think I am. I’m pretty sure they’ve accepted me as the lightest Black dude in the office. My job demands that I constantly engage co-workers around racial…

  • Whiteness in the Age of Obama The Huffington Post 2012-11-26 Jedediah Purdy, Professor of Law Duke University Recall the numbers: 59 percent of white voters supported Romney. More dramatically, 88 percent of his votes came from whites. One simple but plausible analysis suggested that Obama won a majority of white votes only in New England,…