This Was The First Time I Realized I Was Black
The first time I realized I was Black was when my Girl Scout Troup leader's daughter called me a nigger and chased me off her street. I was 12.
Ta-Nehisi Coates new book ‘Between the World and Me’ and Other MyBrownBaby Fresh Links
This week's MyBrownBaby fresh links include an excerpt of Ta-Nehisi Coates' new book, Between the World and Me, plus a new tribute album to Nina Simone.
This Is Why I Keep Writing About Race and Racism
Maybe what I have failed to put a finer point on is that good-intentioned liberals do not understand what racism means.
On Race & Double Standards: Will Change Ever Come?
When racial double standards play themselves out on this mom's doorstep, she wonders if her daughter will ever see equal justice.
200 Words On Racism, Black Families and Our Inalienable Right To Just… Be
Clearly, the good folk of the trendy and family-friendly areas of Atlanta like their homes fried, dyed and gentrified. Blacks need not apply.
Tasteless, Racist Trayvon Martin Costumes: What Better Not Show Up On My Stoop This Halloween
Kids, freaks, racists and fools love them some Halloween, but this photo of two ignoramuses in Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman costumes, replete with blackface, a bloody sweatshirt, a gun and giggles, made me see stars, stripes, thunderclouds and lightening.
Wisconsin Sikh Temple Shootings: Hate Should Never Be the American Way—But It Is
Today, we at MyBrownBaby take a moment to mourn the deaths of the six worshipers killed Sunday at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin by a...
Why White Parents Should Teach Their Children About Race
Really, it wasn’t planned, this cornucopia of color and races and backgrounds and experiences. It was just Mari’s birthday party, a tiny affair that involved...
