Tag: Racial

Two and a half years ago, I wrote that opener after coming up with a silly acronym for this series. Now, “like with all great adventures”, this one ends without much pomp or circumstance. Not that I’m complaining, mind you. The end of any journey is rarely one that is put on d...

I was deeply impacted by her statement. I can’t imagine what it feels like to face such deep hatred as Jews do on a daily basis. It makes my stomach churn just thinking about it. Like Carol, I too am a freelance writer. I work with a handful of clients scattered around the world, including ...

The topic of “racial synthesis” (a new but apt term I just coined) is very important to me as a young Christian black intellectual living in rural America at Taylor University–a predominantly white institution. For my experience in black America, I have had a unique childhood: rais...

2024 marks Our Human Family, Inc.’s sixth year of publishing articles to advocate for racial equity, allyship, and inclusion. It’s hard to believe we’re still at it. It’s exhausting, not at all glamorous, and the pay is . . . well, that’s a story for another day. So ...

2024 marks Our Human Family, Inc.’s sixth year of publishing articles to advocate for racial equity, allyship, and inclusion. It’s hard to believe we’re still at it. It’s exhausting, not at all glamorous, and the pay is . . . well, that’s a story for another day. So ...

I was born under the skylights of the third-floor operating room in the old, red brick Dr. John Warner Hospital three doors east of the house that would be my home for the next eighteen years. By late May, the towering ancient apple tree in our backyard would be peppered with white blossoms and the ...

Tuesday after the federal Martin Luther King, Jr. day holiday, is recognized as The National Day of Racial Healing. Considering that just three days into the new year, we watched the death of a Black man by the actions of the LAPD, I wonder about the likelihood of racial healing. I had to start b...

In today’s society, there is a growing need for more inclusive and equitable communication. That’s why, as a digital communications manager with a background in community organizing, I can’t stress enough the importance of using the right language when communicating about racial...

Confronting our nation’s long history of subjugation, repression, and cruelty is imperative if we are to ensure that the United States lives up to its promise of providing equal opportunity to all. Instead, the Supreme Court has erected new barriers to practices that were initially intended to...

Part of my BHM series to advocate for racial unity and diversity strength. We cannot erase Black History as it is our history. After all, traffic lights and GPS navigation are part of the Black historical contribution to American History. Throughout the history of America, racial division has bee...

There’s been intense pressure to “do better” on racism over the past few years. Even, surprisingly enough, for children’s entertainment. Dr Seuss’ books were pulled from shelves for allegedly racist imagery, Roald Dahl was scrubbed of potentially offensive ...

Every day, people at Certified B Corporations are finding new ways to create a more inclusive and regenerative economy. As a community of changemakers, they amplify their impact by sharing best practices and collaborating on innovations. Their lessons and ideas are part of a new resource des...

With racial equity as one of three pillars in its Theory of Change, B Lab U.S. & Canada and Certified B Corporations commit to shaping a more inclusive economy that works for all people. It’s a commitment that means dismantling systemic barriers for People of Color by using busin...

In the ongoing journey towards building a more equitable and inclusive world, understanding the language of anti-racism is vital. To dismantle systems of oppression, we need to be well-versed in the terms that define and perpetuate racial disparities. The Terms: Anti-Racism Glossary serves...

According to the University of Michigan’s Virulent Hate Project, a report on news articles about instances of anti-Asian hate in 2020, 75% of perpetrators of physical attacks — and 89.6% of perpetrators of all forms of anti-Asian harassment — were white. These findin...

There is a pressing need to address the issue of racial inequity in incarceration. It is shocking to learn that “one in five” Black men is likely to be incarcerated during their lifetime, demonstrating a systemic problem that perpetuates racial disparities within the criminal justic...

My friends used to humorously call me a banana. “Yellow” on the outside and “White” on the inside — and I would laugh. Now I realize that response was my way of coping with the discomfort and dissonance I’ve long struggled with as a “third-culture kid.&rdquo...

Part of my BHM series to advocate for racial unity and diversity strength. We cannot erase Black History as it is our history. After all, traffic lights and GPS navigation are part of the Black historical contribution to American History. Throughout the history of America, racial division has bee...

Aninsult is designed to cut, but a racial stereotype cuts deeper because of the purpose it serves. For instance, during the chattel slavery system, “many whites held stereotypes of blacks as inferior, unevolved, and apelike.” According to Plous and Williams’ 1995 journal artic...

East Asian Multiracials: Closer to Which Identity Among all East Asian multiracial groups (Asian-White, Asian-Hispanic, Asian-Black), men were least likely and women were most likely to identify with their East Asian background. This may be associated with the intersectionality of race ...

The origins of passing stretch back to our country’s founding. For some Black people, crossing the color line meant a chance to improve their social status, economic opportunity, and marital prospects. Some scholars claim passing is no longer a phenomenon because of greater...

Interpersonal Diversity was more likely to decrease than increase during quarantine, but it mostly remained the same. Figure 1 Most students indicated that the interpersonal diversity in their lives remained the same during #Quarantine. Among those indicating a change, more indicated a decline...

In the long and painful struggle for racial justice, there’s a narrative that’s been persistently sold to us: the idea that true equality can only be achieved when the oppressed and oppressors join hands and work together. It’s a comforting thought, the idea of unity and collective...

As a Black woman married to a White woman, I experience the complex dynamics of race and privilege in our relationship. My wife enjoys the safety and invisibility of whiteness, while I cannot escape the vulnerability of my Blackness in our racist society. This became starkly evident when we visited ...

For as long as I have been White (oh wait), I have done this thing called racial gaslighting and it obviously isn’t good. You have done it, too. In fact, you’re probably doing it right now (“Are you SURE I’ve gaslighted before? Where is your PROOF?”). The problem is tha...

I’m posting this essay, which I wrote right after the 2016 election results, because I’ve begun to speak more openly about how constrained I was in covering racial resentment and white nationalism during my time at FiveThirtyEight. On October 2, 2015, I wrote a very factual and, in my mi...

On February 23, Ahmaud Arbery was jogging in a Georgia neighborhood when he was shot and killed by a white man. At the time, amid the rising panic of the pandemic, few paid attention; it took 74 days and a viral video for the killer to be arrested and charged with the crime. Arbery’s death ...

When someone says they’re anti-DEI, not enough pressure is put on them to explain what the alternative looks like to express their vision for our society. And that’s because if they did spill the beans, their vision would likely be reminiscent of a shameful era in our country’...

When I first heard the phrase “call a spade a spade”, I imagined that this was somehow referring to spades, one of the suits of cards. But since then I have learned there is a different origin to this phrase. This phrase has harmful connotations with a racial slur. Most people use this p...

When I first heard the phrase “call a spade a spade”, I imagined that this was somehow referring to spades, one of the suits of cards. But since then I have learned there is a different origin to this phrase. This phrase has harmful connotations with a racial slur. Most people use this p...