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January 27, 2026 | Anika Sapra | Race/Ethnicity
The Politics of Adornment

I choose to wear so much jewelry in order to actively and intentionally take up space, and to reject the history of colonial and patriarchal economies alike, where bodies were sites of regulation that the empire sought to sanitize.

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March 07, 2024 | Eunice Hong | LGBTQIA, Race/Ethnicity
The Silent Struggle: Intersectionality and Students of Color

Intersectionality is more than a concept; it has informed my life as an Asian woman who is also a member of the LGBTQ community.

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May 26, 2023 | Kadin Burnett | Race/Ethnicity
Why Are So Many People Defending Daniel Penny?

On May 1, Jordan Neely, an unhoused, 30-year-old Black man, was killed by 24-year-old Marine veteran Daniel Penny after Penny placed him in a chokehold.

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March 22, 2022 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Race/Ethnicity
Author Khristi Lauren Adams Centers the Activism of 'Black Girls in Black Girls Unbossed'

Throughout Black Girls Unbossed, Adams introduces readers to eight young activists and leaders who have dedicated themselves to issues including literacy, preservation, and gun violence prevention.

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February 15, 2022 | Neha Madhira | Race/Ethnicity
New Report Shows Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Spiked 339% Last Year

Los Angeles reported the most hate crimes of any U.S. city this century, followed by New York City.

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January 12, 2022 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Race/Ethnicity
Author J. Elle Created A Heroine for the Black Girl She Used to Be

The FBomb had the chance to chat with J. Elle over email about Ashes of Gold, creating the stories you want to read, and the reason she finds Rue so inspiring.

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October 26, 2021 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Race/Ethnicity
This New Book Explores Belonging and Being Mixed-Race

The Keeper of Night tells the story of Ren Scarborough, a half British Reaper and half Japanese Shinigami who always feels as if she must find a delicate balance between the two parts of her identity.

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July 15, 2021 | Marcela Rodrigues-Sherley | Education, Girls, Race/Ethnicity
T-R-A-I-L-B-L-A-Z-E-R: The History Behind Zaila Avant-garde’s Spelling Bee Win

14-year-old Zaila Avant-garde became the first Black American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee in the competition’s 96-year history.

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June 18, 2021 | Kadin Burnett | Race/Ethnicity
Is Making Juneteenth A Federal Holiday Meaningful?

President Joe Biden signed into law yesterday a bill that made Juneteenth — the anniversary of the day the last enslaved Americans learned of their freedom — a federal holiday.

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June 07, 2021 | Celeste Huang-Menders | Race/Ethnicity
More States Are Formally Recognizing Racism in Health Care

The existence of racial disparities in health care treatment has been widely recognized for decades. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, has reinforced how deadly this unequal medical treatment can be.

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May 25, 2021 | Kadin Burnett | Media, Race/Ethnicity
How ‘The Underground Railroad’ Reimagines the Trauma of Slavery

'The Underground Railroad' meticulously displays one of history’s most shameful and violent eras without lingering in sadism.

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April 22, 2021 | Celeste Huang-Menders | Race/Ethnicity
Why Do Some Lawmakers Oppose This Anti-Asian Hate Crime Bill?

On May 5, Democratic Representative Grace Meng of New York and Democratic Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii introduced the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act in response to the extreme increase in anti-Asian hate crimes over the last year.

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April 09, 2021 | Sophie Hayssen | Race/Ethnicity
On Using Influencers for Political Means

One Minneapolis city council member, Andrea Jenkins, told USA Today that the city’s plan was not to spread propaganda, but to establish a more direct line of communication between the government and city residents.

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March 25, 2021 | Grace Ouyang | Race/Ethnicity
What We Can Learn About Cancel Culture from The Mahjong Line Controversy

The Mahjong Line — a company that produces tiles for mahjong, a tile game with major Chinese cultural and historical significance — was recently “canceled” by thousands of social media users for cultural appropriation.

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February 22, 2021 | Ruby Hogue | Race/Ethnicity
The Difference Between Being White-Passing and White

White-passing or not, I only exist because my ancestors endured the unimaginable.

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February 09, 2021 | Kadin Burnett | Media, Race/Ethnicity
Despite Casting Black Leads, The Bachelor Franchise Still Has A Race Problem

Since The Bachelor and The Bachelorette started in 2002 and 2003 respectively, only three leads have not been white.

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January 05, 2021 | Megan McGibney | Race/Ethnicity
Meet the Woman Encouraging Philanthropists to Invest in Southern, Black Women and Girls

Brown envisioned the creation of a program anchored by Black women and girls in the South that is today known as the Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium (SBGWC), a union of four organizations led by four Black women in the South

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October 12, 2020 | Lakshmi Gandhi | Race/Ethnicity
Director Tiffany Frances Explores Asian American Identity in New Film ‘Hello From Taiwan’

The film centers on a Taiwanese American girl named Christy, who is struggling to process both her parents’ divorce and the new family dynamics that come with it.

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September 10, 2020 | Rebone Masemola | Race/Ethnicity
Traveling While Black

I was so excited we finally made our trip happen, I didn’t think to prepare myself for how we’d be perceived in Indonesia as two Black girls from Africa.

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September 04, 2020 | Alexandra Lento | Race/Ethnicity
Embracing My Blackness

Most of my childhood was spent in small-town eastern Pennsylvania suburbs with my white mother and white-passing older brother. I was one of the only Black people in my community.

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August 18, 2020 | Maitreya Motel | Education, Race/Ethnicity
I'm Sick of What Students Are Taught About American History

The America of our history books is rose-colored, simple, and false.

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August 03, 2020 | Kadin Burnett | Race/Ethnicity
How Breonna Taylor Became A Meme

There is no amplification that is too loud for Breonna Taylor’s cause, but if our voices aren’t cohesive, the movement becomes too diluted to continue to march at its deserved pace.

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July 17, 2020 | Neha Madhira | Race/Ethnicity
How Tiffany Jewell's ‘This Book Is Anti-Racist’ Helps People Start Their Anti-Racist Journeys

This Book Is Anti-Racist also aims to empower young people to disrupt and uproot racial systems that have been in place for several years.

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June 18, 2020 | Maddie Solomon | Race/Ethnicity
Racism is not a moral choice — it’s the foundation of whiteness

White people need to think more critically about the ways in which they have benefited from the same institutions they claim to protest online.

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May 15, 2020 | Kadin Burnett | Health, Race/Ethnicity
The unbearable privilege of protesting stay-at-home orders

Of the many astonishing developments to come from COVID-19, the angry assemblies of Americans in many states requesting that the government reopen the country rank high.


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