When It Comes To Terms Like 'Colored People's Time,' Context Matters
One would think we wouldn't be needing to have this conversation right about now, but apparently we do.As you've surely heard by now, this time the peg comes courtesy of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio,...
View ArticleMrs. Obama Saves The Cardigan: 'The Obama Effect' In Fashion
Ah, the cardigan: your granny's cozy go-to used to be available year-round, but in limited quantities and colors. It was considered the sartorial equivalent of flossing: necessary, but not...
View ArticleA Defiant Muhammad Ali Was Cherished By Black Men
Over the past few days, we've seen image after image of Muhammad Ali: triumphant in the ring, joking on talk shows and shakily lifting the Olympic torch at the 1996 Atlanta games. He's remembered these...
View ArticleMuhammad Ali Kissed Me Once
Muhammad Ali kissed me once.Don't be a dope â it wasn't like that. It was in front of a whole bunch of people and my then-boyfriend and Mrs. Ali. (And two of his future wives. I'll get to that in a...
View ArticleFood To Celebrate Freedom: Tea Cakes For Juneteenth!
Think of Etha Robinson as the Johnny Appleseed of pastry. Her mission, rather than planting apple trees, is to plant the idea of reviving the tea cake, a little cookie that has a lot of historical...
View ArticleTerry McMillan's Latest: Revisiting Past Loves, Rediscovering Yourself
Terry McMillan's characters have grown along with her. So it's not surprising that her latest book â I Almost Forgot About You â is about middle age. Her protagonist, Georgia Young, is an optometrist....
View ArticleRemembering Tuskegee Airman Roscoe Brown, Educator And Civil Rights Trailblazer
Flags in New York City began flying at half-staff Monday, in honor of Roscoe C. Brown. He died Saturday at age 94 and was one of the last few "Red Tail" pilots, a subset of the Tuskegee Airmen. The...
View ArticleBlack Gun Owners Have Conflicting Feelings After Dallas Shooting Of 5 Police...
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View ArticleAfter Dallas, Black Gun Owners Take Stock
The deaths last week of three African-American men in encounters with police, along with the killing of five Dallas officers by a black shooter, have left many African-American gun owners with...
View ArticleWho Is Delrawn Small? Why Some Police Shootings Get Little Media Attention
Charles Kinsey, a Florida health worker, was swept into the national debate about police and African-Americans after video of police shooting him went viral. Just over a week before, Alton Sterling and...
View Article'Easy' Writer: Walter Mosley's Passion For Bringing Black LA Stories To Life
Ask Walter Mosley what he does, and he'll say, simply, "I'm a writer." And he's written a lot: 52 books, about 30 short stories and another 30 or 40 articles, he says. While most writers specialize in...
View Article'Darktown' Imagines What It Was Like For Atlanta's First Black Policemen
In 1948, Atlanta added eight black men to its police force. This was at a time when, as author Thomas Mullen explains, a 1947 Newsweek article "estimated that one-quarter of Atlanta policemen were, in...
View Article'I Had To Create My Own Lane': How Taraji P. Henson Found Her Place In Hollywood
Actress Taraji P. Henson has played a lot of characters in her 20-year career, but it took only one role to make her famous: Cookie Lyon, the matriarch of an ambitious, dysfunctional family on the hit...
View ArticleDreadlocks Decision Raises Another Question: What Is Race?
Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of several things, among them race. The law, however, doesn't define "race."It also doesn't...
View ArticleThis Week In Race: Sisterhood, Immigration, And The 'Official Shoe Of White...
Yep. President-elect Donald J. Trump. That's still a thing. So while you continue to process that, we wanted to catch you up on some of some things you ought to read, hear and watch around the world of...
View ArticleThis Week In Race: Dog Whistles, Dreamers And Dead Dictators
This week in race: Sports (dog) whistles, protection for Dreamers, a special bookâand some hunky calendar men. Really.Now that the turkey endorphins have worn off, the leftovers are a distant memory,...
View ArticleIntersectional Feminism: Representation In Saturday's Women's Marches
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: As we've talked about throughout this hour, hundreds of thousands of marchers crowded into cities like Washington, D.C., Chicago, Seattle,...
View ArticleDespite Turmoil, Latinos In California Are Prospering
It's been a tense week for immigrants and people of color throughout the country, but there was some good news in California: a new study by the advocacy group National Council of La Raza points out...
View ArticleNew Evidence Shows There's Still Bias Against Black Natural Hair
Stories about black women whose employers asked them to cut their dreadlocks or to trim their big afros have surfaced with more frequency in the last few years. Now a new study confirms that many...
View ArticleThis Week In Race: Immigration Headaches, Oscar Glow And POTUS At The...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2JbO9lnVLE POTUS Yanks The Welcome Mat The effects of the Trump administration's deportation sweeps will be felt, of course, most immediately by the people who are...
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