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black identity
"For all my daydreaming of my child, there was one constant: I knew she would be brown-skinned like me."
"You should absolutely cancel me, and I absolutely cancel myself," Jessica Krug of The George Washington University wrote on Medium.
I didn’t believe that black people could thrive in business unless they compromised.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Various people describe what it has meant for them to be black, and how everyone's experience with it is unique.
The author unpacks the complexity of black male identity and discusses what it means to come of age during the Obama presidency.
"Where am I in this story?" Watch artists such as Wangechi Mutu, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and Chimamanda Adichie discuss how black people are (mis-)represented in today's society and culture.
Celebration and distraction are not the same thing. Taking time to step back from our difficult realities to rejoice, heal and love together is crucial. Investing in corporate fantasies and confusing them with our movements is detrimental.
I'm African American on my mother's side, and I'm a Russian, Polish Jew from my father. In a world where we're so often told black and white issues don't exist, I have been coerced into telling the world that's exactly what I am: A black and white issue.
