By Marguerite Ward and Rachel Premack — 2021
Since microaggressions are so subtle, it’s often hard to know if you’re committing one or if you’re on the receiving end.
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Racism and social inequality don’t just affect adults. Here's why they have a profound impact on the mental health of children of color.
When Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term 30 years ago, it was a relatively obscure legal concept. Then it went viral.
There is this thing that happens, all too often, when a Black woman is being introduced in a professional setting. Her accomplishments tend to be diminished. The introducer might laugh awkwardly, rushing through whatever impoverished remarks they have prepared.
As both James Baldwin and Martin Luther King, Jr., insisted, America is an identity that white people will protect at any cost, and the country’s history—its founding documents, its national heroes—is the supporting argument that underpins that identity.
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Misty Copeland is speaking out about racial injustice and inequality in ballet.
“Being Black overrides everything for me. Nothing is as thunderous in my life as racism. It seems to eclipse everything. It’s the repetitiveness of it. And the fact that it comes from every corner and nook.”