Articles for Black Identity

Opinion: Denigrating Drake, and Kamala Harris, as ‘Not Like Us’
5 months ago

Opinion: Denigrating Drake, and Kamala Harris, as ‘Not Like Us’

LA Times  

Arguments that question the racial identity of the hip-hop artist and the presidential candidate deny the complexity of Blackness. On the same day that former President Trump claimed before a national gathering of Black journalists that Vice President Kamala Harris “was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden she made a turn, and she became a Black …

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CNN Fact-Checker Brings The Receipts To Debunk Trump’s Latest Claim
5 months, 1 week ago

CNN Fact-Checker Brings The Receipts To Debunk Trump’s Latest Claim

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Former President Donald Trump’s racist comment about Vice President Kamala Harris’ heritage was swiftly debunked by CNN’s fact-checking reporter Daniel Dale on Wednesday. pic.twitter.com/845XWqRUq6 — Brian Stelter July 31, 2024 “I quickly, just via Google and with the help of CNN’s ‘KFILE’ team, Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, found multiple examples of her talking about her Black …

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My Black ancestors were erased from my family’s memory. But I found them
1 year, 10 months ago

My Black ancestors were erased from my family’s memory. But I found them

LA Times  

Two years ago, at my mother’s house in San Diego, I asked my 86-year-old Puerto Rican grandmother, who lives there, if she could show me photos of her parents. “Don’t you think if he were still alive he might identify as Black?” “He’d identify as Puerto Rican,” she says. The rise of the “other” is giving birth to a new …

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How ‘Passing’ and similar stories force us to reckon with identity
3 years, 2 months ago

How ‘Passing’ and similar stories force us to reckon with identity

CNN  

CNN — There’s a scene in Rebecca Hall’s film “Passing” in which the character Irene Redfield vents to her husband about a childhood friend. “But underneath that construct, it also points out how powerful it is and how real and human it is to long to be part of a category, even if it is limiting.” From James Weldon Johnson’s …

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Op-Ed: Why did so few Latinos identify themselves as white in the 2020 census?
3 years, 4 months ago

Op-Ed: Why did so few Latinos identify themselves as white in the 2020 census?

LA Times  

Under the category “white” on the 2020 census form, there were names of countries not usually associated with Latinos in Los Angeles. When it asked for race, the census in 2020 added prompts under the “white” category that included countries not associated with America’s Latino population. Yet another part of the census story may be explained by the numbers of …

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I Love 'Queer Eye.' I Don't Love The Way It Portrayed People With Disabilities.
5 years, 5 months ago

I Love 'Queer Eye.' I Don't Love The Way It Portrayed People With Disabilities.

Huff Post  

Netflix One of the things that I love most about “Queer Eye” is the way the show artfully deconstructs stereotypes by cutting through loaded and polarizing issues to tell the stories of individual people. Embracing one’s identity has been a central theme throughout all four seasons of “Queer Eye” — a direct reflection of the Fab Five’s examples of hard-won …

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