Tiffany Onyejiaka, Author at RaceBaitr

Why is TV so afraid to show Black people loving Black people?

February 26, 2019
Tiffany Onyejiaka
Blackness & Anti-Blackness, Race & Blackness

By tagging a white partner to the majority of new Black stories, entertainment groups are able to avoid telling a largely Black story by including a white person as peripheral to the Black character’s life.

Fyre Festival & tourism’s ravaging effect on Black people across the diaspora

January 28, 2019
Tiffany Onyejiaka
Race & Blackness

The overwhelming Western nature of the Fyre Festival without an inkling of attempting to integrate with Bahamian culture is reflective of the colonial lens that many tourist companies view the Caribbean through.