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  The following piece is from STL American. It was written by Jamala Rogers. By: Jamala Rogers This communique is not for the white trolls who lurk in the social media shadows, throwing racist, anonymous potshots, or the white people who’ve been publicly expressing that African Americans are savages who deserve to be shot down in […]

    The following piece is from Clutch. It was written by Jouelzy. By: Jouelzy It is amusing that in 2014 so much polarizing discussion around race has been bubbling over in spurts as social media rallies, rages and questions as think-pieces and op-ed’s are delivered. Most recently the Washington Post had a front page interactive feature on […]

  The following post is from Salon. It was written by Morgan Jenkins. By: Morgan Jenkins For Princeton University’s recent Black Alumni Conference, an advance screening of “Dear White People” took place at the town’s Garden Theater, and I was one of many who could not wait to see it. Throughout the film, I could hear […]

  The following piece is from Black America Web. It was written by Christine. By: Christine After what feels like years of anticipation, ‘Dear White People’ is finally hitting theaters. The hilariously witty, informative piece is centered around 4 Black students who attend an Ivy League University. They are constantly having deal with the cultural differences between […]

Exodus: Gods and Kings is slated to be released in December of this year. While the story talks about the character of Moses, the film is receiving backlash for once again whitewashing its characters. 

The following post originally appeared on MUSED, and was written by BYP100’s Aaron Talley. It appears under the original title of “Gay Pride is For White People.” By: Aaron Talley Pride” season is upon us, and it’s no secret, except perhaps to white people, that gay pride parades are very white, hollow things. They usually […]

College students across the country are tackling race and prejudice, and a new film is taking on the issue through comedy and satire. Dear White People follows a group of black students at a fictional, Ivy League school. One of the characters host a radio program of the same title where she confronts racism faced by […]

  The world has yet to progress to state where our social issues and injustices are being resolved and handled in a matter that acknowledges us solely as human beings. The even bigger breakdown is the culture and sub-cultures we live in, enduring and/or confronting our challenges as we make sense of the world. Making […]

The Atlanta Black Star has compiled a list of 5 nations that imported Europeans to “whiten” the population. 

This past winter, as a student teacher in a kindergarten class on the South Side of Chicago, I got the pleasure of hearing one of my students articulate the centuries old matter of black humanity within the context of whiteness and white supremacy. It happened during the beginning of the school year, and I sat […]

In case you missed it, there’s a photo going viral that takes Blackface to an entirely new level. As much as we would like to believe that our eyes are playing tricks on us, they’re not. In the above photo, two Caucasian men and one white woman are portraying a very familiar incident.

During College Orientation week in my first year at University of Chicago, the students had “forums” that were geared towards opening discussions about the various views on race, gender, and political background. In one of these sessions, this question was posed, “If you see a black man walking towards you at night, would you cross the street?” I of course was […]