I know who my colleagues think I am. I’m pretty sure they’ve accepted me as the lightest Black dude in the office. My job demands that I constantly engage co-workers around racial issues, so I have opportunities to represent my Black experience all the time, which I’m sure gains me some points. But it’s different […]
WASHINGTON — When the 2010 census asked people to classify themselves by race, more than 21.7 million — at least 1 in 14 — went beyond the standard labels and wrote in such terms as “Arab,” ”Haitian,” ”Mexican” and “multiracial.” The unpublished data, the broadest tally to date of such write-in responses, are a sign […]
While nursing home admissions is on the rise for Black, Latino and Asian elders, admissions for white elders fell 10 percent causing some to ask is there white flight in nursing homes. See also:Â Americans ‘Very Concerned’ GOP Budget Will Force Elderly From Nursing Homes A new study published in Health Affairs, a journal on health […]
According to a new study conducted by researchers at Tufts University, Stanford University and the University of California, whether we perceive someone as Black or white depends on the clothes they are wearing. Participants of the experiment were asked to categorize computerized images of people with varying skin tones and clothing. The results show participants […]
Usually the struggle with filling out college forms is found in writing a personal statement, nowadays it is identifying one’s racial makeup students, and school officials, find most perplexing. Due to the Department of Education’s new requirement for universities to comply with broader options of ethnicities and races, how to account for racial mixes in […]
(CAMBRIDGE-Scientific Computing) Years after slavery and Jim Crow laws, people of African and European heritage still consider themselves to be Black, according to a recent study. The centuries-old “one-drop rule” assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorization of people like Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, and Halle […]
Former NBA star and current TNT commentator Charles Barkley has continued his criticism of LeBron James. Charles Barkley was asked by WIP in Philadelphia about LeBron James’ media fest, “The Decision” The only criticism I’ve heard about LeBron and it was my biggest criticism, that decision thing was just stupid. It was stupid, “The second […]
or do you wish that you and all your Black favorites were white?
Almost seven months have passed since the devastating earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, 2010. The destruction was massive; the financial costs are estimated at US$8-11 billion. In my work I receive daily reports from people who are either in Haiti working on the recovery effort or who have just returned from consultations, assessments, and […]
From Washingtonpost.com: After the Shirley Sherrod episode, there’s no longer any need to mince words: A cynical right-wing propaganda machine is peddling the poisonous fiction that when African Americans or other minorities reach positions of power, they seek some kind of revenge against whites.
