German-American Heritage Museum promotes culture, doesn't tell whole story – washingtonpost.com
"When the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened, many German critics were appalled by its blunt, rigorous recounting of the details of Nazi genocide. The only way modern, democratic Germany could salvage its reputation in the United States, many Germans in government and the private [...]

Tulsa World: YWCA initiative takes aim at racism
"With "Stand Against Racism," the organization joins 68 other YWCAs across the country to raise awareness that racism still exists. It was created after a report from the Southern Poverty Law Center showed a 54 percent increase in hate groups operating in the country.
The report listed "immigration fears, [...]

Race and Sexuality: A Discussion with Latoya Peterson (DC)
Tuesday, March 23 2010
Time: 7 pm to 9 pm
Location: Georgetown University, White Gravenor 201A.
Co-Sponsored by: The LGBTQ Resource Center, Lecture Fund, GU Women of Color, GUMBO, SCU
This event is free and open to the public. Latoya will discuss the similarities, challenges, and parallels between organizing around [...]

Latin female artist draws criticism for Times Square mural : Single Women Rule
"Whether we want to admit it or not, the heart of this controversy lies in the aspects of urban culture that Maldonado’s mural highlights – big, gold, doorknocker earrings, belly button rings, nameplate finger-rings, stiletto boots, hi-top sneakers, short skirts, tight pants, long, [...]

Facebook feds go undercover: Document shows federal agents dipping quietly into social media
U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and gather private information, according to an internal Justice Department document that offers a tantalizing glimpse of [...]

By Deputy Editor Thea Lim
Over at Femonomics Coca Colo asks why everyone on the Bachelor and the Bachelorette is white:
The Bachelor and The Bachelorette are two of the whitest shows on television.  Not only is the star always white, but so is the host, and so, by nature of our society’s continued discomfort with interracial [...]

Disparities in sentences found
Black and Hispanic men are more likely to receive longer prison sentences than their white counterparts since the Supreme Court loosened federal sentencing rules, a government study has concluded. The study by the U.S. Sentencing Commission…analyzed sentences meted out since the January 2005 U.S. v. Booker decision gave federal judges much [...]

From “The Tea Party is All About Race” by Bob Cesca, published in early March on the Huffington Post:
I was going to open this piece with an analogy about the tea party groups and why they’re treated seriously by the press and the Republicans. The analogy would go something like: “Imagine [insert left-wing activist group [...]

Please Support CHILDREN OF INVENTION and WHITE ON RICE, Opening on March 12th in NY & L.A.!
“Children of Invention” – by Tze Chun
Two young children living outside Boston are left to fend for themselves when their mother gets embroiled in a pyramid scheme and disappears.  ”Children of Invention” premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, [...]

Islam, Social Lives and Online Networking
Pssst! Racialicious Special Correspondent and Muslimah Media Watch Editor Fatemeh Fakhraie is on this panel!
Muslims from all parts of the world since 9/11 are facing discrimination and even threats of violence. For many young people, this post-9/11 world has sparked a new, if not confusing, relationship with their own identities [...]

By Deputy Editor Thea Lim
So we’ve been getting lots of emails about this, both from readers and friends – in late February Zeta Tau Alpha , a predominantly white sorority, beat out three black sororities at the Sprite Step-Off, nabbing the $100,000 prize and honours as the best step team in the country.
This caused an [...]

By Deputy Editor Thea Lim
Reader Carleandria sent us this link to an article from the Times Online, discussing a controversy that is gaining ground in France after the release of a biopic on French writer Alexandre “The Three Musketeers” Dumas starring Gérard Depardieu:
A fuss over race has soured the release of the latest film in which [...]

Call for submissions: MAMA SAYS GOOD GIRLS MARRY DOCTORS – Retaining Control, Negotiating Roles: South and East Asian Diasporic Women and their Parents
Editors: Piyali Bhattacharya and Josephine Tsui
Contact: goodgirlsmarrydoctors at gmail dot com
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2010
Are you a good girl? You know what we mean: you listen to your parents, there’s no gossip about [...]

By Deputy Editor Thea Lim

How do you know when a story is allying, versus appropriating?
In other words, if someone of privilege writes a story about the political oppression of a group they do not belong to, what is the difference between:
a) a story that brings marginalised voices to a wider platform and advocates for their [...]

By Deputy Editor Thea Lim
From How to Raise Racist Kids by Jonathan Liu:

Step One: Don’t talk about race. Don’t point out skin color. Be “color blind.”
Step Two: Actually, that’s it. There is no Step Two.
Congratulations! Your children are well on their way to believing that <insert your ethnicity here> is better than everybody else.
Surprised? So [...]