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Posted on September 6, 2018 September 5, 2018

Peter Kavinsky Is Every White Boy I’ve Spent My Adulthood Getting Over

Leah Johnson
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Leah Johnson
Posted in
Arts+Creators
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dating, film, Growing Up, high school, media, Netflix, race, white people

How the recent Netflix film ‘To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before’ called all my internalized ideas of race and romance into question. Read more

Posted on August 27, 2018 August 29, 2018

Being Brown On Tokyo Tinder

Aarohi Narain
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Aarohi Narain
Posted in
Lust+Liaisons
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online dating, race, tinder, tokyo

Being brown and Indian, I did not embody an appealing brand of foreignness. Read more

Posted on August 13, 2018 August 14, 2018

Dear Non-Southern White Nationalists: The South Is Not Your Racist Paradise

Mary Caroline Cummins
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Mary Caroline Cummins
Posted in
Society+Politics
Tagged
Charlottesville, Confederacy, politics, protests, race, racism, white supremacy

A red-painted map camouflages all the purple that today is the reality of the old Confederacy, and the Californian waving a Confederate flag wants to render all these real Southerners invisible. Read more

Posted on June 1, 2018 July 11, 2018

The Tragic Story Of Sarah Baartman And The Enduring Objectification Of Black Women

Natasha Mwansa
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Natasha Mwansa
Posted in
Brain+Body
Tagged
black women, history, objectification, race

The life of the ‘Hottentot Venus’ still feels familiar for those used to being gawked at. Read more

Posted on May 11, 2018 September 5, 2018

The Problem With ‘Skinfolk Passes’ For Predators

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Written by
Claire Francis
Posted in
Society+Politics
Tagged
bill-cosby, r-kelly, race, sexual assault

Justice for sexual abuse victims is not ‘lynching.’ Read more

Posted on April 9, 2018 October 9, 2018

How ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ Upends The Asian BFF Trope

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Written by
Andrea Ruggirello
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arts-creators, asian american, race, representation, Television

Jessica Huang’s friendship with a white neighbor centers the Asian-American experience in a way I’d never seen before on TV. Read more

Posted on January 29, 2018 October 9, 2018

The Racist Undertones Of The ‘Urban Contemporary’ Grammys Category

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Written by
Jeremy Winslow
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Uncategorized
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arts-creators, etymology, grammys, race, urban-contemporary

Creating a here’s-your-space-and-here’s-mine kind of atmosphere isn’t a good look no matter how you dress it. Read more

Posted on August 21, 2017 December 11, 2018

How Our Conversation Around Breastfeeding Hurts Black Infants

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Written by
Kelly Glass
Posted in
Brain+Body
Tagged
breast-v-fed, Breastfeeding, infant-mortality, race

For too long, the dialogue around breastfeeding has been a deeply privileged one that erases and ignores Black women. Read more

Posted on August 2, 2017 September 12, 2018

Dear Black Men: If You Want Long Hair, Have Long Hair

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Written by
Jeremy Winslow
Posted in
Brain+Body
Tagged
black-hair, masculinity, natural-hair, race, society-politics

Embracing the hair I always wanted took confronting society’s rigid expectations for Black men. Read more

Posted on July 15, 2017 September 7, 2018

Learn The Stomach-Turning Numbers Behind America’s Police Violence

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blacklivesmatter, police-violence, race, racism, society-politics

Data indicate law enforcement officials have killed nearly 500 civilians this year alone. Read more

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