Tag: Charles M. Blow

  • The Impact of the Browning of America on Anti-Blackness The New York Times 2021-11-14 Charles M. Blow Ike Edeani for The New York Times One of the things I often hear as a person who frequently writes about race, ethnicity and equality is that the browning of America — the coming shift of the country…

  • Charles Blow blows his horn in the New York Times Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2016-06-27 Victoria Bynum, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History Texas State University, San Marcos In today’s New York Times, opinion editor Charles Blow delivers a harsh critique of the movie, Free State of Jones, arguing that its treatment of slavery…

  • White Savior, Rape and Romance? The New York Times 2016-06-27 Charles M. Blow The movie “Free State of Jones” certainly doesn’t lack in ambition — it sprawls so that it feels like several films stitched together — but I still found it woefully lacking. The story itself is quite interesting. It’s about Newton Knight, a…

  • The Other Obama Legacy The New York Times 2016-01-14 Charles M. Blow On Tuesday, I spoke to a room full of beaming high school and middle school boys — about 150, a vast majority of whom were black — at the St. Petersburg College Allstate Center in St. Petersburg, Fla. The talk was sponsored by…

  • A Bias More Than Skin Deep The New York Times 2015-07-13 Charles M. Blow I will never forget the October 2013 feature on National Geographic’s website: There was a pair of portraits of olive-skinned, ruby-lipped boys, one with a mane of curly black hair, the other with the tendrils of blond curls falling into his…

  • Hate Takes the Bus The New York Times 2015-03-11 Charles M. Blow A University of Oklahoma Fraternity’s Chant and the Rigidity of Racism This week, when video was posted showing members of the University of Oklahoma’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon gleefully engaged in a racist chant on a bus, some people were shocked. Others,…

  • Blacks, Obama and the Election The New York Times 2014-11-02 Charles M. Blow, Visual Op-Ed columnist President Obama’s name won’t be on any ballots Tuesday, but he will most certainly be on them in spirit — a fact that many Republicans are trumpeting and some Democrats are hoping to downplay. The president is not particularly…

  • Barack and Trayvon The New York Times 2013-07-19 Charles M. Blow, Visual Op-Ed Columnist On Friday President Obama picked at America’s racial wound, and it bled a bit. Despite persistent attempts by some to divest the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman tragedy of its racial resonance, the president refused to allow it. During a press briefing, Mr.…