Tag: Ebony Magazine

  • Gary Younge explores race, society and Black history in these five fascinating documentaries

  • Beauty and the Bleach: This Issue is More than Skin Deep Ebony 2016-06-20 Yaba Blay, Dan Blue Endowed Chair in Political Science North Carolina Central University Skin bleaching is a billion-dollar industry. Considering its global reach, Dr. Yaba Blay says we have to stop treating bleaching as just a matter of self-hate. Over the past…

  • The Race Draft Fails, Again Ebony 2015-08-26 Damon Young, Writer (left) Barack Obama, Mariah Carey and Shawn King Damon Young says a recent campaign questioning Shaun King’s ethnicity is the latest in a string of attempts to take good Blacks out the gene pool We should have seen it coming. All the signs were there.…

  • ‘I Didn’t Want to Be a Black Man’ Ebony 2014-08-27 Ben O’Keefe A biracial man on why he came to accept his Black identity My name is Ben O’Keefe and I am a “Halfrican American.” It’s a term that one of my fellow mixed-race friends, Adriana, and I have affectionately come to define ourselves by.…

  • ‘I Hope My Son Stays White’ Ebony News & Views 2014-09-02 Calvin Hennick A White father of a biracial son admits his fears for what happens when his child gets older and can no longer ‘pass‘ I am a white man, and part of the privilege that comes along with that fact is this: I…

  • African-Americans and Latinos: Conflict or Collaboration? Ebony Magazine 2012-09-25 Eugene Holley, Jr. As Latinos now outnumber African-Americans as this country’s largest minority, could there be a political, social and economic union with our brown brothers and sisters? In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month – which runs through October 15th – EBONY interviewed African-Americans and Hispanics…

  • What Makes you Black? Ebony Magazine Volume 38, Number 3 (January 1983) pages 115-118 Vague definition of race is the basis for court battles Imagine going to get a passport so you and your spouse can take a vacation in South America. Its all a formality, you reason; people just want to make sure you’re…

  • Miscegenation in America started not in the thirteen original colonies but in Africa. English, French, Dutch and American slavetraders took black concubines on the Guinea coast and mated with females on the slave ships. It should be noted that many Africans and Europeans were themselves the products of thousands of years of mixing between various…

  • Gouldtown traces it’s history back 250 years, began with an interracial marriage

  • Colorism: The War at Home Ebony Magazine News & Views 2013-02-20 Chris Williams Dr. Yaba Blay discusses the history of ‘the color complex’ and how we can work to destroy it The “color complex” has remains a source of great controversy and pain in the African American community and across much of the African Diaspora.…