Apr 29 Chef, author Eddie Huang says TV needs to add more variety to its menu By Nora Daly Growing up, celebrity chef, restaurateur, author and TV producer Eddie Huang says, "I never watched television with any Asian-Americans that I related to or felt like were real people." Has the new ABC sitcom based on Huang's memoir, "Fresh Off… Continue reading
Mar 30 Watch How the biases in the back of your mind affect how you feel about race By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 26 White Millennials are products of a failed lesson in colorblindness By Mychal Denzel Smith What I’d like to believe from my observations in the streets of Ferguson and New York City at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests is that, among young white people, there is a real awakening around issues of… Continue reading
Mar 25 Millennials don’t know how to talk about race, and that’s a problem By Rinku Sen In November 2008, a political lifetime ago, the pollster John Zogby published an Op-Ed calling Millennials the “First Global Citizens.” Zogby joined other politicos and pundits eager to see in this new generation of Americans signs of movement… Continue reading
Mar 24 The hidden racism of young white Americans By Sean McElwee Recently, chilling videos surfaced online of young University of Oklahoma students, members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, reciting a racially-charged chant. The story appeared surprising for numerous reasons. Among them, education is supposed to reduce racial resentment (or… Continue reading
Mar 23 We treat racism like it’s going extinct. It’s not. By Brittney Cooper When 28-year-old George Zimmerman killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on a residential Sanford, Florida, street in February 2012, after trailing the hoodie-clad, iced tea-carrying youth through the neighborhood because he looked “suspicious,” it became clear that America’s Millennial generation had… Continue reading
Mar 23 Justices hear free speech dispute over Confederate flag license plate By Mark Sherman, Associated Press The Supreme Court is weighing a free-speech challenge to Texas' refusal to issue a license plate bearing the Confederate battle flag. Continue reading
Mar 20 Gwen’s Take: Making peace and making coffee By Gwen Ifill There are so many good ways to talk about race and culture in America. Yes, even at Starbucks. Continue reading
Mar 19 Here’s why it’s so hard to figure out how Millennials feel about racism By Laura Santhanam What explains the conflicting data about how young people feel about race in America?… Continue reading
Mar 18 We need to talk about racism on college campuses By Eric Krupke, Jasmine Wright Following the release of a video showing the members of University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon chanting racist slurs, the conversation of racism on college campuses has been refreshed. How have campus newspapers responded to the disturbing images?… Continue reading