by Latoya Peterson
Please note, this is part three of a multi-part series on the Lifting As We Climb: Women of Color and Wealth report released by the Insight Center for Community Economic Development. Please carefully read part one and review our comment moderation policy before participating in the comments.
Heaping trays of Indian food were laid [...]

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 [...]

by Guest Contributor Adam Mansbach, originally published at The Boston Globe

As John Mayer’s racially-charged comments in Playboy magazine ricocheted around the Internet this week, I found myself exhausted by the sad reality that the national dialogue on race remains driven by the engine of celebrity gaffes and gotcha moments.
Our voracious, ADHD-afflicted news cycle castigates, forgives, [...]

By Guest Contributor Jenn, originally published at Reappropriate

I saw this short post on Time’s Detroit Blog today: Still Getting It Wrong on Affirmative Action. In it, blogger Darrell Dawsey comments about the recent news that civil rights groups in Michigan have brought an appeals case challenging the constitutionality of a rcent ballot measure banning the practice of affirmative action [...]

By Guest Contributor Tami, originally published at What Tami Said
[In the following post about allies, I am confining my discussion to anti-racism and feminism because those are the movements with which I am most familiar. I hope, though, that these ideas have broader application.] Last week, in a post titled When Allies Fail – Part 1, we [...]

By Guest Contributor Tami, originally published at What Tami Said
[In the following post about allies, I am confining my discussion to anti-racism and feminism because those are the movements with which I am most familiar. I hope, though, that these ideas have broader application.]
Allies are important to any equality movement. It does not help people of [...]

By Deputy Editor Thea Lim
A writer friend of mine working on a novel about his Indian experience has lamented to me about a particular response he keeps getting to his work in progress. His non-Asian peers tell him that he can’t write his particular story, because it’s already been told by say, Rohinton Mistry, [...]

By Deputy Editor Thea Lim
Note: This post isn’t about Buffy Sainte-Marie, but her photo seemed like a good one to meditate on while I wrote this harrowing piece.  See my endnote for more info.

I get a little sensitive when it comes to how transracial parents represent themselves and their families.
So when reader Carleandria sent us [...]