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.
Race Growing Into My Racial Identity
Kaylen Sanders on a lifetime of trying to understand her racial identity.
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.
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.
Family Remembering Loretta Saunders: A MMIW Story
Delilah Saunders on her sister Loretta, one of Canada's MMIW.
History An Interview With @AfAmHistFail
We sit down with @AfAmHistFail, an anonymous plantation docent who shares the teaching ups and racist downs of her job.
Family Letter To My Mother After Charleston
Carvell Wallace writes a letter to his late mother about yesterday's white supremacist massacre in Charleston.
Family Things I Wish I Could Say To People, Interracial Family Edition
The things that sometimes flit through my head when people say silly things about our interracial family.
Family Regrettable Things Our White Relatives Have Said to Us
Sometimes it does help! And sometimes it just means there's no filter.
Books History in Color: A Black American Romance Roundtable
Alyssa Cole talks with fellow authors Kianna Alexander, Piper Huguley, and Lena Hart about writing historical romances featuring people of color.
