“Segregated From Its History, How ‘Ghetto’ Lost Its Meaning”

“Using ghetto as an insult is, as our own Karen Grigsby Bates has pointed out, inherently…

“Native American Rap Is the Most Authentic Rap We Have Today”

“As it did for black Americans in the 1970s, hip-hop…

“Just Eat It: A Comic About Food and Cultural Appropriation”

“I made this comic about the cultural appropriation of…

“Douchebag: The White Racial Slur We’ve All Been Waiting For”

“If we think of the douchebag as a social identity as much as an accusation, as a subject with a distinctive persona locatable within the categories of race, class, gender and sexuality, then we find that the term carries a…

“Three quarters of whites don’t have any non-white friends”

“Going back to Chris Rock’s point, the average black…

“It Took Me Two Years to Realize My Boyfriend Was Racist”

“On July 4th, Matt took me to a family reunion potluck at his uncle’s house. His aunt and uncle greeted me in the same friendly manner.
His relatives complimented me on my “exotic” looks. I wanted to frown, but instead, I smiled…

“Why Do Millennials Not Understand Racism?”

“for the last few years, the music television channel has…

“Ferguson isn’t about black rage against cops. It’s white rage against progress.”

“White rage recurs in American history. It exploded after the Civil War, erupted again to undermine the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision and took on its latest…

“Inside Amy Schumer — Generations”

“The Pain of the Watermelon Joke”

““Brown Girl Dreaming” is the story of my family, moving from slavery through Reconstruction, Jim Crow and the civil rights movement, and ends with me as a child of the ’70s. It is steeped in the history of not only my family but of America. As African-Americans, we…