What is the role of privileged white women in the reproductive justice movement? – Feministe
As law students and future lawyers, they were in positions of power that most of us are not, nor ever will be. How could they lend their skills to this movement in a different way? How could they contribute [...]

Compiled by Jessica Yee

Duluth Shop Stops Selling Offensive T-Shirts

A Duluth shop owner says he’s sorry for selling t-shirts some call racist…The clothing racks at “I Love Duluth” no longer contain these shirts, called racist by many in the Native American community…”Anger.  Anger and disbelief,” says Donna Blue Bird, who complained to owner Simon Shaked about the [...]

Think Progress alerts us to this racial asshattery:

The OhioDaily blog reports on a “rogue” dispatcher from the North Canton Police who recently sent out a racist e-mail from her work account. Dispatcher Anita Malachowski forwarded this message:

“New “Air Force One” Tail Number and yes, please forgive me, I’m really sorry, I really, really [...]

Compiled by Thea Lim and Andrea (AJ) Plaid

Canadians must not turn blind eye to racism

“The confrontation on Friday between Jay Phillips and three young men in Courtenay should have all of us re-evaluating the belief many Canadians have that racism is not an issue in Canada…we should look at this [country's] long history of racism, [...]

by Latoya Peterson

International Blog Against Racism Week has once again come and gone. Here are a few of my favorites from this year’s batch.
Karynthia – We Have Feelings Too, or The Cost OF Being A POC in Race Discussions
Because clearly if we’re calm enough and nice enough in the face of offensive behavior [...]

Compiled by Latoya Peterson and Thea Lim
Call for Art Submissions: “RESISTING COLONIALISM & REBUILDING PATHWAYS TO HOPE”
Seeking: Submissions of artwork by youth reflecting: resistance to oppression, violence and all kinds of discrimination; the process of healing, and the building of hope…
What do I have to do? Submit your artwork for the exhibit. Then, on September [...]

Reader Michael sent in this interesting chess set:

The description?
“For their RS&A chess set commission, the Chapman Brothers chose to create a game played by postapocalyptic adolescents, the one side white with Arian haircuts and the other side black with Afro hair. The set is displayed in its own handcrafted games box, the board inlaid [...]

compiled by Thea Lim
Part I of our April links round-up as we scale our delicious inbox…keep ‘em coming!
Michelle Obama unveils Sojourner Truth statue in Washington: Sojourner Truth first black woman to be so honoured at the Capitol.
More on Resident Evil 5: a careful breakdown at Game Set Watch on how RE5 uses backdrop imagery [...]

Shashwati’s Blog – Manufacturing Outrage – Slumdog and Its Discontents (via DeafMuslim)
Piecing the story together, it seems that the tabloid entrapped the family by posing as an Arab couple (being Arab increases the pathology, get it?), and offered to adopt Rubina and pay $300,000 to the family. This exchange took place via a translator since [...]

We talked about The Game on Monday – here’s some more information:

Here’s the forum thread. (via Black Enterprise)
Geist Magazine has an interesting piece on wealth stratification and social status at the border (via Utne):
This Berlin Wall for the twenty-first century reflects the ironic era of its construction. Built to protect a territory defined in [...]

Compiled by Latoya Peterson and Fatemeh Fakhraie
Sepia Mutiny responds to Raakhee Mirchandani’s article in the New York Post about dating inside the race.
The Los Angeles Times reports on how Middle Eastern students at UCLA want alternatives to “white” or “other” when filling out demography boxes on applications. KABOBfest weighs in.
Renee Martin writes about Madonna and [...]

Complied by Latoya Peterson
WireTap – Ask a Sex Goddess: How Do I Address Privilege with My White Partner?

I am a brown-skinned woman of color, and I have been dating a white man for almost 8 years. Our different ethnicities have never really been a problem, but lately I have been noticing a disparity in [...]

Compiled by Latoya Peterson
Washington Monthly – Black and Blue

The violence perpetrated by the P.G. cops is a curious development. Usually, police brutality is framed as a racial issue: Rodney King suffering at the hands of a racist white Los Angeles Police Department or more recently, an unarmed Timothy Thomas, gunned down by a white Cincinnati [...]

Compiled by Latoya Peterson
The Daily Beast – Obama’s ‘Third Culture’ Team
John Quincy Adams lived in France, and young Franklin Delano Roosevelt visited Europe often enough to master French and German, but Barack Obama is the first modern American president to have spent some of his formative years outside the United States. It is a trait [...]

Compiled by Fatemeh Fakhraie and Latoya Peterson
A high school in Pennsylvania banned students from wearing the keffiyeh after an escalation of tensions between Jewish and Muslim students. After a few days, the high school rescinded the ban.
Speaking of clothing issues, Urban Outfitters has done it again with new levels of offensive appropriation: the Allah bracelet. [...]