How you doin', Kamaljeet? – Sepia Mutiny
"After he performed “Down” and “Do you remember , Williams exclaimed to her guest, “You are, STUNNING!” She followed up with “You’re exotic and spicy, what is your background??”. Mr. Jhooti let her know that his “heritage” was Indian and immediately clarified that he did not, in fact, live [...]

By Thea Lim
The following is from the blog Adoptees of Colour Roundtable:
This statement reflects the position of an international community of adoptees of color who wish to pose a critical intervention in the discourse and actions affecting the child victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti. We are domestic and international adoptees with many years [...]

By Deputy Editor Thea Lim
Is it a new trend in trailers to highlight comic genius and audacity, by showing just a little bit of racism? First we had the Up in the Air trailer, and now this:

From Paris With Love stars John Travolta (apparently in a reprise of his Face/Off role, plus a keffiyeh) as [...]

by Latoya Peterson
After I hit up the AAA conference on race, I had to dash over to the Root’s offices to make a 4 PM podcast.  Natalie Hopkinson had kindly invited me to join them on The Confab, The Root’s Podcast.  Here’s the description:
This week on The Confab: Why is Haiti so unlucky? How has [...]

by Angry Asian Man, originally published at Angry Asian Man

This is the situation, as I understand it. For the past couple of days, fans of the Korean pop group 2PM were tweeting “#RT기 다릴게 박재범 기다릴게 2PM” (never mind what it means) to show love the group’s ousted Korean American leader Jaebum, who had [...]

By Deputy Editor Thea Lim

As if independent bookstores don’t already have enough to worry about, Fidel Martinez at Guanabee writes about a language controversy at Atticus Bookstore in New Haven:
Atticus Book Store and Cafe, located in New Haven, Connecticut, has caused a controversy over a recent policy decision to require all Hispanic employees to only [...]

Food Packaging and the Race Card | SlashFood
"I became curious about the dark side – racial images used in food advertising – and it seems I'm not the only one.  But what's more amazing is that all three of these icons are still found on packaging today.
"It's just in the larger historical context – slavery, [...]

By Guest Contributor Tammy Johnson, originally published at Colorlines

January 27, 2010
Brothers, sisters and all of those in transition,
I come to you today not as your elected leader, but simply as a Black woman striving for justice, a single voice delivering a few words of caution and hope about the state of our union.
Some of you [...]

by Guest Contributor invisman52, originally published at Max Protect
After Brett Favre threw an interception at the end of the NFC Championship Game–a fatal mistake that cost his team a chance to make the Super Bowl–I knew that if the Saints would go on to win the game in overtime, many in the media would bemoan [...]

by Guest Contributor CVT

Here’s one of my first Portland (Oregon) memories:
I’m at a bar with two white male friends.  Well, actually, I’m at a Chinese restaurant and bar . . . at a karaoke night. (*1)  With two white male friends.
Anyway.
My friends, in looking for a larger table for us, chat up these three cute(ish) [...]

Queen Latifah and Kristin Chenoweth express interest to adopt orphaned children from Haiti
"I wanna just go down there and get some of those babies," Latifah said, according to CelebrityBabyScoop.com. "If you got a hook up, please get me a couple of Haitian kids. It's time. I'm ready. I got two arms, I can handle at [...]

by Special Correspondent Fatemeh Fakhraie

Fatemeh Fakhraie spoke with Cherien Dabis, the director behind the film Amreeka, a story about a Palestinian woman and her son as they adjust to their new life in America.
It seems that your experiences as an Arab-American have really shaped the way you tell stories. I remember [...]

by Guest Contributor (and frequent commenter) Atlasien
I’m a foster care adoptive parent. I can’t speak for all of us, since we’re a diverse bunch. Some of us have also adopted internationally and support international adoption strongly. Others despise the institution, and are angry about what the perceived hypocrisy of parents who walk past [...]

SC Lt. Gov. Bauer: Free School Lunches Encourage ‘Stray Animals’ to ‘Breed’ | RaceWire
"And what's this about bar graphs? You're saying here that… kids are getting low test scores… because they're on free lunch? Yeah, that makes sense. We all know how increasingly unhealthy our nation's school lunches are, and it's hard to achieve without [...]

by Guest Contributor Aymar Jean Christian, originally published at Televisual

Get ready for reason #573 why The Wire was the best television show of the aughts. In the wake of Scott Brown’s upset in the Massachusetts special election for the U.S. Senate, I’ve been thinking a lot about the cycle of politics. I’ve been a pretty [...]