“Leigh Anne Tuohy, Racism, and the White Saviour Complex”

“Another white woman, one Leigh Anne “I Adopted A Black Boy So I Can’t Possibly Be Racist” Tuohy, decides that White Lady #1 is wrong. Which is actually the correct assumption for Ms. Tuohy to make, so I guess this is where some…

“Fashion’s Cultural-Appropriation Debate: Pointless”

“The popular chorus of cultural appropriation! cultural appreciation! quickly becomes a performance, in which neither side misses a cue nor forgets a well-learned line. This continues for several days and maybe weeks until it peters out…

“JAMES BALDWIN TELLS US ALL HOW TO COOL IT THIS SUMMER”

“It’s a very serious question in my mind whether or not the people of this country, the bulk of population of this country, have enough sense of what is really happening to their black co-citizens to understand why they’re in the…

“Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Michael Chabon Annotated Kendrick Lamar’s “The Blacker the Berry” Lyrics”

“The lyrics read, “So why did I weep when Trayvon Martin was in the street?/When gang banging make me kill a nigga blacker than me/Hypocrite!” You can…

“White History Month 2015 is coming and we want your submissions”

“This year, we’re inviting Africa is a Country readers (you too, Elion) to contribute to White History Month 2015. Get in touch using editorial [at] africasacountry [dot] com and let us know what you want to write…

“White High School Dropouts Have More Wealth Than Black And Hispanic College Graduates”

“white families are much wealthier than black and hispanic families at every education level. More than that, all white families, even those at the lowest education level, have a…

“Eddie Huang on Seeing His Memoir Become a Sitcom”

“This show isn’t about me, nor is it about Asian America. The network won’t take that gamble right now. You can’t flash an ad during THE GAME with some chubby Chinese kid running across the screen talking shit about spaceships and Uncle Chans…

“Time to Tell the Truth About Slavery at Mount Vernon”

“At the time of George Washington’s death, the Washingtons enslaved 318 people of African descent at Mount Vernon, according to the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association. But you would not know it from the main tour, nor from the brochure…

“Studies Reveal So-Called ‘Racially Progressive’ White Millennials Are Not So Different From the Racist Generations That Came Before Them”

“For the most part, implicit racial bias changed very little between generations.