Nordstrom's response to BlackandBrownNews.com's inquiry: In a telephone call to BBN last Friday, a Nordstrom spokesperson said, "Nordstrom sides with BBN and finds the advertisement offensive and racist. Peter Nordstrom, our president, spoke with the designers and expressed his disappointment, but the designers view it as art." When asked about...

(BlackandBrownNews.com)

This advertisement masked as a short film for a fashion line was commissioned and created by White men with no visible understanding of the real conditions in communities of abject poverty, and it has effectively turned a crisis facing Black girls into an opportunity to further...

As a Black woman in America, I have never known a time in my life when I have felt more unsafe, vulnerable and unprotected. This acute sense of insecurity is sometimes a challenge to articulate. It is, however, a real and shared experience among the many Black women in my...

I am embarrassed as the founder of a digital media source of news and information that I am only now learning of something that happened in 2007.

It seems that while those of us who follow the business of news media were fixated on News Corp's take over Dow...

(originally posted Feb. 18 on BBN)

Dear New York Post: Thank you for reminding me of who and what you really are. Please don't bother to offer up an empty apology for this latest offense.

This illustration is your authentic editorial opinion, and you have every right to have...

At BlackandBrownNews.com we randomly asked our members should Barack Obama now be referred to as "Black" or "Biracial"? This question has touched off spirited and candid responses.

BBN did not invent the question. This is how the question was introduced to us and why we sought a broader-diverse perspective...

This article was written by Ariel Garfinkel, a sophomore at Mt. Holyoke College in Massachusetts who's majoring in the Politics of Inequality.

The epic struggle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama reveals strong fault lines between some older and younger women, first underscored by no less than Gloria Steinem who...