Tag: Jay Smooth

  • Jay Smooth: The Ill Doctrine, Underground Railroad & Disenfranchised cheese puffs The Katie Halper Show 2016-01-20 Katie Halper, Host On our first episode of the Live Katie Halper Show I front of an audience we talk to Jay Smooth, founder and host of The Underground Railroad and of the Ill Doctrine video series. His videos…

  • Why It Was Easy for Rachel Dolezal to Pass as Black Pacific Standard 2015-06-15 Lisa Wade, Associate Professor of Sociology Occidental College, Los Angeles, California Race is more social than biological. Source: (1)ne Drop Project Earlier this year a CBS commentator in a panel with Jay Smooth embarrassingly revealed that she thought he was white…

  • Vulnerability as Empowerment in the Classroom Education Week 2015-09-09 Christina Torres, Middle and high school English and Drama Teacher University Laboratory School, Honolulu, Hawaii It’s back-to-school time for many students and teachers this week. For many, it means that 20 to 120 new faces enter our classrooms and our lives. Jessica, a fifth-grade teacher in…

  • My father is black. My mother is white. I self-identify as black and as mixed and I don’t relate to those as mutually exclusive. I also try to be mindful and try to have a certain humility about how my experience differs from most other black people; about how I have certain types of residual white privilege which…

  • Last night, while I was in the midst of making a video on the Rachel Dolezal situation, the news broke of this horrific racist killing in Charleston South Carolina. After much deliberation we have decided to release the video as scheduled, and I believe its core message is still relevant to the moment.

  • What is Systemic Racism? Race Forward 2015-05-13 Rinku Sen President of Race Forward & Publisher of Colorlines introduces the “What Is Systemic Racism?” video series featuring our very own Jay Smooth. Watch the entire video series here.

  • ‘I’m actually black’: Awkwardness ensues when journalist calls radio host Jay Smooth white Raw Story 2015-03-18 David Ferguson In one of the most cringe-worthy moments of television you will ever see, on Tuesday night’s All In with Chris Hayes, activist Nancy Giles of CBS Sunday Morning accused hip hop critic and cultural commentator Jay Smooth…

  • How To Tell Someone They Sound Racist Ill Doctrine 2008-07-21 Jay Smooth You gotta use some strategy. See more of this discussion here.

  • PHOTOS: 3rd Annual What Are You? Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Brooklyn Historical Society Fall 2013 Nayantara Sen, CBBG Project Associate All photos by Willie Davis for Brooklyn Historical Society, 2013 Steven Riley, Founder of MixedRaceStudies.org gives a few remarks before introducing one of the panels. A participant in the packed the house in Brooklyn Historical…

  • 3rd Annual: What Are You? – A Discussion about Mixed Heritage Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Saturday, 2013-11-09, 14:00 EST (Local Time) From the Travyon Martin murder trial, to racist responses to the Cheerios commercial starring an interracial couple, recent media events illustrate that the U.S is definitely not post-racial. Join BHS in…