By Aisha Mirza To be clear, I am not a fool, and therefore my expectations were not sky-high for a movie about heteronormative interracial love written by Kumail Nanjiani, a Pakistani comedian, and his white wife Emily Gordon. There were…
By Shereen Masoud What happened during the “Unite the Right” march in Charlottesville, VA in August was terrifying. A mass of extremist white men from fringe alt-right groups yelling violently — and killing a counter-protester in their midst — is…
By Leslie Afua Sometimes, we can be gullible as hell. I’m not even going to touch the fact that a lot of us are still watching the NFL despite its anti-Black and sexist history. Instead I’m going to focus on…
*Editor's Note: Though this article places relations between Black and white people within the context of intimate partner violence (IPV) and domestic abuse, the author and editors in no way wish to minimize the experiences of people who have been…
By Leslie Jones Writer’s Note: The article title is an homage to Mary Frances Berry’s seminal work on emergent colored Creole identity in the late 18th and 19th century. Her research reveals the strategies employed by colored people to resist…
By Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda Last month, yet another white man infuriated the Asian-American community by writing an article for the Wall Street Journal called “Why Anyone Can Be Chinese.” In this badly written article, author Daniel Bell makes so many false…
By Rumi “It’s not natural,” she said. “Your father would be mortified,” she said. If asked, very few niggas would probably say that talking to their moms about anal sex constitutes the “good life,” but it’s one of those things…
By Timothy DuWhite Rumor has it that you stayed home. You checked into Facebook and wrote a lengthy status instead. You rolled your eyes at every “just voted”-stickered selfie that popped up on your timeline. You had words for everyone…
By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Last week, Jenn Jackson, a PhD student at the University of Chicago, Managing Editor of Black Youth Project, and a writer published in a variety of venues such as B*tch Media, took to Twitter to instigate thoughtful…
