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Meghan Markle on When She Stopped Being ‘Treated as a Mixed Woman’ In a new episode of Archetypes , she and Mariah Carey unpack the word diva and their experiences as biracial women.
By Olivia Truffaut-Wong
culture wars
May 17, 2022
Mother Outraged Her Biracial Son Has Learned to Identify Racism Melissa Riley tried to sue her son’s middle school for teaching him about inequality.
By Danielle Cohen
A Tale of Two Cities Why the Women’s Prison Association chose a Black woman from Baltimore to lead it.
By Caryn York
The New Face of American Gun Ownership Black women are pushing against the (white, rural, and male) stereotype.
By Agya K. Aning
Clinton’s Misunderstood ‘Sister Soulja Moment’ Doesn’t Need a Revival When you understand the full context of Clinton’s 1992 remarks, calls for Biden to deliver his own challenge to Black activists make even less sense.
By Ed Kilgore
A New Book for the ‘Abolition Curious’ “There’s only so much longer we as a society will tolerate police killing three people per day.”
By Mary Retta
emmys 2021
Sept. 20, 2021
Are the Emmys Really Trying to Do Better? People of color got a lot of nominations, but it’s mostly white people who took home the awards.
By Whitney Friedlander
The Real Reason Black Mothers Are Being Pushed to Breastfeed Efforts to close the racial breastfeeding gap are more complicated than they appear.
By Jennifer C. Nash
the discourse
July 23, 2021
How Anti-Racist Is Ibram X. Kendi’s Anti-Racism? His approach to fighting racism contains glaring inconsistencies and contradictions that might undermine his own project.
By Eric Levitz
tokyo olympics
July 9, 2021
Black Olympians Are Set Up to Fail Because of rigid and outdated regulations rooted in racism, athletes like Sha’Carri Richardson won’t get to compete.
By Ashley Stoney
mental health
June 18, 2021
Building a World Where Black Folks Can Breathe Easier With her wellness space Black Girls Breathing, Jasmine Marie pledges to help millions of women on their mental-health journeys.
By Mary Retta
in the heights
June 16, 2021
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jon M. Chu and In the Heights Actors Address Film’s Colorism Rita Moreno has also addressed the backlash, saying, “Can’t you just wait a while and leave it alone?”
By Rebecca Alter
reckoning with a reckoning
May 27, 2021
Eavesdropping on $5,000 Anti-Racist Dinner Parties Two entrepreneurs have built a business dredging up white women’s shame.
By Molly Fischer
reckoning with a reckoning
May 25, 2021
White People Are Squirming Eight writers on what happens when the people around you are suddenly forced to confront race.
book excerpt
May 17, 2021
‘You Must Play Basketball’ He wants to see my moves. My Black athleticism will turn him on. But my body is a marionette with tangled and impossibly knotted strings.
By Brian Broome
Tarana Burke Is Just Trying to Do Her Work A long talk about Black women, Me Too, and intentions with the activist and founder.
By Shamira Ibrahim
Who Gets to Write a Recovery Memoir? Hunter Biden’s Beautiful Things insists that addiction is an equalizer, which just isn’t true.
By Nour Abi-Nakhoul
Reimagining What Monuments Can Be A new public-art exhibition in Philadelphia aims to “transform the way our country’s histories are told in public spaces.”
By Cornelia Channing
the cut podcast
Apr. 21, 2021
The Cut Podcast: Does This Poster Make Me Look Racist?This week, The Cut podcast producer B.A. Parker discusses racist and problematic historical artwork.
By the Cut
the bigger picture
Apr. 20, 2021
A Gathering of Radical Love Photos from “Protect Asian Lives,” a tender space for queer Asians, by queer Asians.
By Andrew Nguyen
first person
Apr. 20, 2021
Was That Racism? I ask myself this question almost every day.
By Julie Kim
gallery view
Apr. 2, 2021
MoMA’s First Show on Race in Architecture Chooses Lofty Ideas Over Pragmatism “Why settle for the probable when we could instead imagine what is possible?”
By Justin Davidson
close reads
Mar. 26, 2021
What Was the Asian American Character Actor? For way too long, supporting roles were both the ceiling and a devil’s bargain.
By Alison Willmore
the bigger picture
Mar. 22, 2021
A Day of Solidarity Amid Rising Anti-Asian Violence Photos from a Black and Asian solidarity protest in New York, by the photographer Stephanie Mei-Ling.
By Amanda Arnold
all work no pay
Feb. 5, 2021
A Common Theme for Black Women Unemployment has been our disproportionate reality since long before the pandemic.
By Abby Adesanya
art and soul
Feb. 2, 2021
Jasmin Hernandez Made the Coolest Coffee-Table Photo Book Let the Gallery Gurls founder tell you about it, and give you a look inside.
By Devine Blacksher
ch-ch-changes
Jan. 14, 2021
Sephora Has a Plan to Tackle Racial Bias New protocol, fewer security guards, and more Black-owned beauty brands.
By Erica Smith
the cut podcast
Jan. 13, 2021
Your Friendly Black Sidekick Typecasting young Black girls as the supportive best friend, on this week’s episode of The Cut .
By the Cut
capitol insurrection
Jan. 8, 2021
‘It Was No Accident’ Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal on surviving the siege.
By Rebecca Traister
capitol insurrection
Jan. 8, 2021
American Amnesia A new dawn doesn’t mean that the darkness never existed.
By Evette Dionne
Joy Reid Delivers Powerful Speech on Capitol Siege and Race on MSNBC “White Americans aren’t afraid of the cops. White Americans are never afraid of the cops, even when they’re committing an insurrection.”
By Chris Murphy
Adonis Finds His Voice The model, singer and co-parent (with Slick Woods) on tokenism in fashion and being sexually fluid.
By Matthew Schneier
how i get it done
Dec. 21, 2020
How a Nap Guru Gets It Done Community activist Tricia Hersey sees rest as resistance and reparation.
By Amina Khan
the bigger picture
Dec. 15, 2020
A Place for Artists to Hit Reset Jasmine Clarke’s photographs capture moments of Black joy at a residency upstate.
By Devine Blacksher
the cut podcast
Dec. 2, 2020
The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America Featuring author Ijeoma Oluo on this week’s episode of The Cut .
By the Cut
book excerpt
Nov. 30, 2020
The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America An excerpt from a new book by the author of So You Want to Talk About Race .
By Ijeoma Oluo
Only One Officer Was Charged in Breonna Taylor’s Killing A member of the grand jury claims they were never given the option to indict the other two officers.
By Bridget Read
art and soul
Sept. 21, 2020
MoMA PS1 Reopens to the Public With ‘Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration’ Featuring art made by people in prisons as well as work by non-incarcerated artists.
By Cassidy George
There’s a New Rachel Dolezal Jessica Krug has stepped down from her job as an associate history professor after admitting that she pretended to be Black.
By Claire Lampen
fundraising
Sept. 3, 2020
Some ‘Pro-Sex, Anti-Fascist’ Art for Your Walls Proceeds benefit groups supporting Black trans people and sex workers.
By Andrew Nguyen
Chika Is for Lovers But even lovers have their limits.
By Kiana Fitzgerald
the cut podcast
Aug. 26, 2020
Are We the Virus? Exploring our relationship to nature, and who’s allowed to be healed by it, on this week’s Cut podcast.
By the Cut
Corey Couldn’t Take It Anymore A Yale cafeteria worker smashed a monument to slavery, and changed an institution.
By Quiara Alegría Hudes
Life As a Black “Digital Nomad” Isn’t the Same Many people see living and working abroad as a privilege. For me, it’s a way of escaping deadly racism in the U.S.
By Imani Bashir
Beyond Burnout Five Black women on working yourself sick.
As told to Brianna Holt
I’m the Only Doctor in My ER Who Stands Up to the Cops Emergency rooms are stressful even without the threat of brutality.
By Michele Harper
Am I Being Set Up to Fail? The recent wave of Black promotions and connections seems full of promise and potential, but this nagging thought remains.
As told to Priska Neely
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