Do clothes reflect your race? This is the question being explored in a new study entitled “Looking the Part: Social Status Cues Shape Race Perce...
Inae Oh | Posted 10.29.2011
While Mayor Bloomberg made his post hurricane commute to City Hall this morning, he made sure to warn New Yorkers of a "tough commute." But what he ma...
Posted 10.26.2011
An ESPN article asking if Michael Vick, the NFL quarterback who was convicted of dog-fighting offenses, would have been treated differently if he was ...
Posted 10.16.2011
Go to the University of Alabama? Tearing yourself apart trying to figure out which sorority to rush? Rest your brain, because this video is here to so...
The Huffington Post | Posted 09.18.2011
What do going to farmer's markets, putting your kids in timeout and writing angry letters all have in a common? They are all white people hobbies,...
Daniel Cubias | Posted 07.14.2011
Recently, I received some hate mail from a white supremacist. It's a rare, but not unprecedented occurrence. Her sentiments were ignorant and bizarre...
Andy McDonald | Posted 05.29.2011
While stopping in a thrift store recently, I came across this wonderful item... For the White person who has everything, except a tool of recourse ...
The Huffington Post | Carol Hartsell | Posted 05.25.2011
Some things are so ingrained in popular culture that we forget their true meaning. Take the ubiquitous gang sign. Who among us in a time of weakness ...
David Ropeik | Posted 05.25.2011
Rush Limbaugh recently compared the murder of Native Americans to European deaths via tobacco. Pretty stupid. Not ideological or right wing or politically incorrect. Just third-grade dumb.
Christian Lander | Posted 05.25.2011
My travels took me to magical places like Madison, WI, Austin, TX, Portland, OR, and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It became painfully evident that I still had a lot to learn about white people.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011
The recent AP-Gfk poll reconfirmed that whites again are at political war with each other. The war is over Obama. The division is fueled by the same race, class, and governance issues that sparked the Civil War.
Posted 06.17.2011
Who says white people can't dance? -MT Don't Miss a Good Laugh! Sign up to receive my email newsletter each week - It will let you know wh...
Irene Monroe | Posted 11.17.2011
There has been a color change at "Essence." After forty years of having sisters from the African Diaspora as its fashion director, the new one is whit...
nytimes.com | SAM ROBERTS | Posted 05.25.2011
For the first time since the 1970s, a majority of Manhattan's population is non-Hispanic white, according to an analysis of census estimates....
Posted 05.25.2011
"The History of White People" author Nell Irvin Painter was on "The Colbert Report" last night, and gave few answers about the nature of race, though ...
Molly Secours | Posted 11.17.2011
It wasn't until recovering from stage IV uterine cancer that I began to notice the parallels between cancer and racism -- and potentially similar paths of recovery.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.25.2011
The poll reveals that 83% of the white people surveyed agreed with the statement, "As a white person, I feel that America is really over the whole race thing."
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 05.25.2011
Let's face it, white men in suits are terrifying. You never know when they're going to steal all your money in a ponzi scheme, steal all your money an...
Jaemin Kim | Posted 11.17.2011
Reducing Asian women into a sexual object is not funny, it is not flattering. It is perilous. We can see this when Asian women are subject to race-targeted sexual violence.
Raymond Leon Roker | Posted 05.25.2011
Part of what I always suspect comes out of articles like this, is the affirmation from some that a browner America should also mean minorities can finally stop complaining about inequalities.
Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 05.25.2011
If anything is clear from The Wire, it is that the War on Drugs is a failed war, one that only keeps the cycle of addiction, poverty and violence going.
Joan Z. Shore | Posted 05.25.2011
This is not simply the victory of one black man in America; it is the victory of American tolerance and integration, where black can marry white, where barriers are broken.
New York Times | Frank Rich | Posted 05.25.2011
IT seems like a century ago now, but it was only in 2005 that a National Journal poll of Beltway insiders predicted that George Allen, then a popular ...
Roger Hernandez | Posted 05.25.2011
Our national confusion about Hispanics begins with the system of classification taken for granted, which incorrectly classifies "Hispanics" into a race apart, exclusive with whites, blacks, Asians or Native Americans.
Posted 12.17.2011