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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.

  • Why Young Men of Color Are Joining White-Supremacist Groups

    Patriot Prayer’s leader is half-Japanese. Black and brown faces march with the Proud Boys. Is the future of hate multicultural?

  • Inside the Biracial Advertising Boom

    Biracial couples and families are becoming increasingly common. Companies are using them in advertisements to reflect that reality, and to sell to those who value diversity.

  • 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…

  • I Loved My Bigoted Uncle, and He Loved Us

    I Loved My Bigoted Uncle, and He Loved Us The Daily Beast 2016-10-09 Goldie Taylor, Editor-at-Large My late Uncle Buster, a barrel-chested white man raised in the woody bowels of Louisiana and a self-professed bigot, opened his life, his home and his heart to me. Wendell “Buster” Carson was ours by marriage but, even as…

  • The Strange and Ironic Fates of Jefferson’s Daughters

    The Strange and Ironic Fates of Jefferson’s Daughters The Daily Beast 2016-09-17 Sally Cabot Gunning Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily Beast Martha Jefferson was Virginia elite. Her half-sister Harriet, though seven-eighths white, was deemed a slave at birth. No one could have predicted their fates. Martha Jefferson was born in 1772, just as Monticello…

  • The ‘Human Computer’ Behind the Moon Landing Was a Black Woman

    The ‘Human Computer’ Behind the Moon Landing Was a Black Woman The Daily Beast 2016-04-07 Nathan Place Image of Katherine Johnson at NASA Langley Research Center in 1971. In an age of racism and sexism, Katherine Johnson broke both barriers at NASA. She calculated the trajectory of man’s first trip to the moon, and was…

  • 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…