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  • My Heritage Is Mixed Race. Chances Are Decent That Yours Is, Too

    Many African-Americans like me have some white blood in our veins. And of course it stands to reason that the opposite is true. We must tell these stories.

  • Obama Tapped His Inner Krazy Kat When He Taught Us to Embrace Mutts

    Obama Tapped His Inner Krazy Kat When He Taught Us to Embrace Mutts The Daily Beast 2017-01-18 Michael Tisserand Michael Tisserand is the author of Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White. A self-described ‘mutt,’ Obama encouraged us to think about race in ways that erased the color line. But George Herriman, another…

  • ‘Barry’ or How Barack Obama Learned to Stop Worrying and Love His Blackness

    ‘Barry’ or How Barack Obama Learned to Stop Worrying and Love His Blackness The Daily Beast 2016-12-20 Marlow Stern, Senior Entertainment Editor Netflix The new Netflix film ‘Barry’ explores young Obama’s days at Columbia University, torn between the world of his rich white girlfriend and the African-American community. There’s a scene in Dreams From My…

  • Trevor Noah Blasts Ben Carson for Claiming President Obama Was ‘Raised White’

    Trevor Noah Blasts Ben Carson for Claiming President Obama Was ‘Raised White’ The Daily Beast 2016-02-25 Matt Wilstein, Entertainment Writer ‘The Daily Show’ host hits back at the low-in-the-polls neurosurgeon for claiming Obama can’t relate to the ‘experience of black Americans.’ Believe it or not, Ben Carson is still running for president. And this week,…

  • James Blake and the Myth of an Unarrestable Black Man

    James Blake and the Myth of an Unarrestable Black Man The Daily Beast 2015-09-10 Tomás Ríos Bill Bratton said race ‘had nothing at all to do’ with tennis star James Blake’s wrongful collaring and arrest. The numbers tell a different story. What does a non-white person have to do for the police to leave them…

  • Are the Tsarnaevs White?

    Are the Tsarnaevs White? The Daily Beast 2013-04-24 Peter Beinart, Senior Political Writer and Associate Professor of Journalism City University of New York also Editor-in-chief Open Zion In a word, yes. But why is this so hard for Americans to grasp? Peter Beinart on our country’s long track record of conflating religion and race. The…

  • The Original Slave Colony: Barbados and Andrea Stuart’s ‘Sugar in the Blood’

    The Original Slave Colony: Barbados and Andrea Stuart’s ‘Sugar in the Blood’ The Daily Beast 2013-01-24 Eric Herschthal Columbia University Barbados provided the blueprint for all future British slave settlements in the American South. Andrea Stuart talks to Eric Herschthal about how her family was entwined in the island’s tormented history. On the face of…

  • ‘Searching for Zion’: Emily Raboteau’s Hunt for the Promised Land

    ‘Searching for Zion’: Emily Raboteau’s Hunt for the Promised Land The Daily Beast 2013-01-13 Mindy Farabee A writer set out around the world to find the mythical ‘promised land’ of the African diaspora. Emily Raboteau speaks about the Jewish search for the same, African-American tourism to Ghana, and Barack Obama’s ties to this search. Mention…