Family Dare To Be Different
"I grew up wishing to be the same. I grew up wishing I could dare to be different."
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Family Swimming Lessons for Black Girls
Christienna Fryar on her years as a competitive swimmer and the need for Black people to feel safe and welcomed at public swimming pools.
News News Roundup: The One-Year Ferguson Anniversary
A news roundup of what happened in Ferguson over the weekend.
Cartoons & Comics Racist Bones in Your Body
Think you don't have any racist bones in your body? Sorry.
Race Growing Into My Racial Identity
Kaylen Sanders on a lifetime of trying to understand her racial identity.
Movies Things John Rambo Is Cheered For Doing in First Blood Which, If Black People Did Them, Would Be Used To Justify Their Deaths
If Rambo had just respectfully followed police instructions, all of this unpleasantness could have been avoided.
Advice Aunt Acid: Advice for Owning Up to Racism
In which a reader wishing to apologize to a friend for a racist comment made years ago asks Aunt Acid for advice.
Beauty David Brooks Writes a Sestina About Ta-Nehisi Coates
The latest in a series of sestinas that David Brooks has written for The Toast.
Cartoons & Comics Real Thoughts About Real Interactions with Real People at San Diego Comic-Con
Kendra James reports on her best-of-times, worst-of-times experience at San Diego Comic-Con 2015 with both grace and wit.
Dreams Children, Teaching, and Dreams Deferred
Carla Bruce on teaching instead of writing, and why she does it.
Advice The Good Indian Friend: A Manual
Neha Margosa on the characteristics of a good Indian friend.
Feminism Bree Newsome and the Myth of the Strong Black Woman
"There are far too many examples of black women who have been strong when they had no other choice. We've had to fight when our own needs were cast away."
Movies On Mississippi Masala and Being Seen
Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite writes about Mira Nair's "Mississippi Masala" and South Asian representation in film.
News News Roundup: Who Is Burning Black Churches?
Some of the latest news on this week's spate of black-church burnings.
Family Remembering Loretta Saunders: A MMIW Story
Delilah Saunders on her sister Loretta, one of Canada's MMIW.
