Growing up in a predominantly white, middle-class neighborhood in Seattle I remember my mother warning my older brother not to be caught running after dark, and, if ever stopped by police, to do whatever they asked—no more and no less. Speak as little as possible, she'd say. Every suggestion was a weak attempt to… » 1/24/15 2:28pm Saturday 2:28pm

It'd be wonderful if you could just say to children, "People might look different and come from different places, but we're all equal and should be treated the same" and leave it at that. But if recent news has taught us anything, it's that reality is not so simple, and we need to face the topics of race and racism… » 1/23/15 2:06pm Friday 2:06pm

Megyn Kelly—what an enigma, what a woman. Has anyone ever so masterfully teetered between sanity and insanity—between oh so right and unforgiveably wrong? When Megyn Kelly is the voice of reason in a discussion about racial identity in America, it almost makes you believe in the unbelievable. » 1/20/15 2:45pm 1/20/15 2:45pm

John Legend continues to prove why he's so great, writing a new op-ed for Billboard that tackles race in America and the recent police brutality protests happening across the country in light of the Ferguson and Eric Garner grand jury decisions. » 12/12/14 1:30pm 12/12/14 1:30pm

Today, the New York Times ran a crucial piece about school-age girls and the massive disciplinary imbalances that effectively segregate them, both by race and also by skin color. Tanzina Vega's report begins with the case of Mikia, a 12-year-old in Georgia who was caught vandalizing a school bathroom with a friend.… » 12/11/14 6:10pm 12/11/14 6:10pm

Pharrell Williams is on the cover of the November issue of Ebony Magazine and from an early look, it seems like he has taken a dive into the pool of delusion that Kanye West has happily been swimming in for the past couple of years. » 10/15/14 10:30pm 10/15/14 10:30pm

The news that white people will no longer be the majority in America by the year 2050 has been out for some time now. But as we inch closer to the day when people of color will be the physical majority (I'm not too optimistic about institutional power), and the inevitable CNN scare graphics and Fox News on-air… » 10/07/14 6:00pm 10/07/14 6:00pm

Jennifer Cramblett, the mother who is suing Midwest Sperm Bank for accidentally impregnating her with the sperm of an African-American man rather than that of the white donor she and her partner paid for, has given her first on-camera interview. » 10/02/14 3:00pm 10/02/14 3:00pm

Paula Deen is in the midst of trying to claw her way back to relevancy over a year after she was exposed as the butter-soaked racist we all probably assumed she was. Steve Harvey and his mustache have a television show to host, advertising dollars to worry about and not a whole hell of a lot of concern for the… » 10/01/14 6:50pm 10/01/14 6:50pm

Friends, readers, ladyfolk, I believe we are being trolled. I believe we are being trolled by major newspapers and fashion magazines through a series of willfully ignorant and low-key racist articles where they attempt to completely erase black people from the very styles and trends that they created. » 9/23/14 2:30pm 9/23/14 2:30pm

New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan has updated a post she published this morning regarding Alessandra Stanley's wildly racist article about Shonda Rhimes where she repeatedly called her an Angry Black Woman. » 9/22/14 4:10pm 9/22/14 4:10pm