Last July 4, my family and I went to Long Island to celebrate the holiday with a friend and her family. After eating some barbecue, a group of us decided to take a walk along the ocean. The mood on the beach that day was [...]
By Jenée Desmond-Harris | Originally Published at Vox. March 4, 2015, 8:40 a.m. ET You've probably heard it before: too many black students don't do well in school because they think being smart means "acting white." It's a popular thing to say, but it's not true. At [...]
Don't imagine that being a racist is something that only happens to other people. By Kali Holloway | Originally Published at AlterNet. March 2, 2015 } Photographic Credit; Integration Crisis; Black and white children at a party to introduce mixed schools during the civil rights movement, Virginia, [...]
By Courtney Robinson and Jennifer Keys Adair | Originally Published at Chicago Reporter. February 27, 2015 | Photographic Credit; Courtesy of The Library of Congress Childhood lessons about black history often overlook important but less well-known figures including (from left) Bayard Rustin, Andrew Young, (second from right) [...]
By Adrienne Maree Brown | Originally Published at Yes! Magazine. February 24, 2015 | Photographic credit; Millions March NYC, December 2014. By B.C. Lorio. The people dying are moms and dads, kids and teenagers, nerdy, quiet boys and girls. This movement is showing what wholeness looks like [...]
NEW HAVEN — THE recent reunion show for the 40th anniversary of “Saturday Night Live” re-aired a portion of Eddie Murphy’s 1984 classic “White Like Me” skit, in which he disguised himself to appear Caucasian and quickly learned that “when white people are alone, they [...]
By Sierra Boone | Originally Published at ForHarriet. February 18, 2015 | Photograph; Tiana Parker For as long as I can remember, I’ve been getting braids and twists and everything in between done to my hair. In my toddler years my head was a home for those [...]
By Jonathan Stith | Originally Published at Huffington Post Black Voices. February 11, 2015 12:44 PM EST | Photographic Credit; Getty Images There is a war going on outside -- that no Black youth is safe from. Most recently, we've seen this war played out through the [...]
You can see the fear on our children's faces. Parents and grandparents too wear the pain. For the families of color times have not changed. The "talks" are many. For the most part, it is all the same. Except there is a difference. Decades ago, we [...]
