Meanwhile, On TumblR: Seriously Cute Kids, The Glamourbaby Diaries, And...
By Andrea Plaid I finally figured out that I change my hairstyle every decade or so. In my fourth decade, I decided to forego the bald and grow out my hair without going to locs, like I did in my 30s....
View ArticleMeanwhile On TumblR: Baby Captain America
By Andrea Plaid I think this picture, brought to my personal TumblR dashboard by @so-treu, encapsulates all the feels about President Obama’s re-election amidst Superstorm Sandy and Winter Storm...
View ArticleDoing Antiracism Wrong At Jezebel
By Guest Contributor Gene Demby, cross-posted from PostBourgie After President Obama was re-elected last Tuesday, there was the predictable racist apoplexy from the knuckle-draggers on Twitter who...
View ArticleVoices: The US, New York City, And The Central Park Five–Then And Now
**TRIGGER WARNING** Antron McCray climbed on stage in a Manhattan theater one night last week and stepped into the kind of spotlight that, until now, has almost always meant trouble for him. Exiled...
View ArticleMeanwhile, On TumblR: Intergenerational Afropolitan Genius
By Andrea Plaid This photo of literary/cultural African American female icons got lots of love this week: L-r: Nikki Giovanni, Toni Morrison, and Angela Davis. Photo credit: Jim Stroup. This video of...
View ArticleMeanwhile, On TumblR: The Under-Ten Set Styles Cute And Schools Hard
By Andrea Plaid Since our sister blog, Love Isn’t Enough, ceased publication, the R’s Tumblr has taken on the delightful task of celebrating kids of color, like this little one in all of her...
View ArticleOscars Aftermath: Watch Best Documentary Short Winner Inocente And Read Our...
By Arturo R. García Get More: Inocente, Full Episodes “Just because I’m homeless doesn’t mean I don’t have a life,” Inocente Izucar tells the viewer at the beginning of the short documentary bearing...
View ArticleMeanwhile, On TumblR: The Quvenzhané Wallis Edition
By Andrea Plaid Quvenzhané Wallis. Photo: Koury Angelo for milkmade.com. After Hollywood and the press unapologetically–and The Onion apologetically–showed their asses to actor Quvenzhané Wallis on her...
View ArticleRacialicious Crush Of The Week: Nana Efua’s “Fairy”
By Andrea Plaid You know that I usually crush out on people–or some videos or blog–in this weekly post. This week, I find myself crushing hard on a photo, thanks to Tumblizen bad-dominicana putting...
View ArticleMeanwhile, On TumblR: The Non-Fiction Flick And Vid Edition
By Andrea Plaid I think I’ve been a bad influence on the R’s Senior Editor Tami Winfrey Harris because I’ve been talking her into watching documentaries for our Table for Two posts. We have another one...
View ArticleRacialicious Crush Of The Week: Maysles Documentary Center’s Teen Producers...
By Andrea Plaid Members of Maysles Documentary Center’s Teen Producers Academy. Image via nydailynews.com While I’ve been working here at the R–among other places–I’ve also been working as the Social...
View ArticleOpen Thread: What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Youth Issues?
Image by Timberland Regional Library via Flickr Creative Commons. Latoya and Arturo had a conversation last night that started from this story about 33 high school students in California getting...
View ArticleShort but Sweet: Kim Ho’s The Language Of Love
By Arturo R. García Charlie (Kim Ho) tries to find the words in “The Language of Love.” If you’ve got a little less than 10 minutes to spare, the short film The Language of Love is worth your time, as...
View ArticleRacialicious Crush Of The Week: Unlocking The Truth
By Andrea Plaid Unlocking The Truth’s Malcolm Brickhouse (l) and Jarad Dawkins. In the midst the Paula Deen- and Miley Cyrus-leveled foolishness this week stood Unlocking The Truth, a trio of young...
View ArticleQuoted: Chill On Rachel Jeantel, Already!
Rachel Jeantel is a teenager, a 19-year-old girl who told the world what she heard that fateful February night on the phone with her longtime friend Trayvon. From the news reports produced by the...
View ArticleWrap Up: The Five Things I Learned At SDCC 2013
By Kendra James San Diego Comic Con was overwhelming and not for the faint hearted, but also one of the most unique experiences of geekdom I’ve ever had. After taking a week to recover I wanted share...
View ArticleVoices: Jordan Davis’ Killer Won’t Do Time For His Death
Jordan Davis (1995-2012). Image via The Root. Michael Dunn got away with murder.Oh, he’ll likely spend the rest of his life in prison on the three counts of attempted second-degree murder. Those are...
View ArticleQuoted: White Teenagers Offended, World Stops
Lawrenceville School Student Body President Maya Peterson’s “Lawrenceville boi” picture. Image via Buzzfeed. One of Peterson’s first acts as president was to institute a “diversity representative” on...
View ArticleLive From Facing Race — This Is How We Do It: Youth Led Racial Justice
Facing Race 2014 kicks off at 10 a.m. EST on Friday morning with “This is How We Do It: Youth Led Racial Justice,” a plenary session featuring the following speakers: FM Supreme, a founding member of...
View ArticleThe Facing Race Files: Lifting Up Queer and Trans Youth Resiliency
[View the story “Facing Race 14: Rainbow Warriors – Lifting Up Queer and Trans Youth Resiliency” on Storify] As promised, here are some of the images posted by the presenters: The post The Facing Race...
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