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Aug 6, 2019 · His ongoing photo series Made in the USA: A Portrait of America’s Racist Ideology Through Items and Artifacts confronts these concepts head-on by exploring how racist ideologies can permeate popular culture and how these ideas can manifest in the items we buy.
- Buzzfeed News Photo Essay Editor
Jun 21, 2020 · Race in America cartoon gallery. USA TODAY Network. I do quite a few illustrations for the Opinion section of the Free Press and Freep.com. This illustration accompanied a column about...
- Editorial Cartoonist, Animator
Nov 25, 2019 · The images here are intended to be sirens: startling alarms to wake us from internalizing the myth of white supremacy and the reality of racism, which has led us to blind, deafen, silence, even...
- Watching Broadway Shows While Black
- Listening While Black
- Lunching While Black
- Overhearing Conversations While Black
- Dealing with Coworkers While Black
- Working While Black
- Going to The Corner Store While Black
- Buying Lunch While Brown
- Sporting Your Hair While Black
- Talking to Friends During Lunch While Black
“My freshman year at the University of New Hampshire, while watching Rent with friends and peers, a non-Black person of color commented on Rosario Dawson’s appearance by stating, ‘She’s pretty cute for a Black girl,’ while I was sitting right beside him.”—Sierra E. By the way, this is why you should stop saying, “I don’t see color.”
“My junior year at Syracuse University, a non-Black person of color used the N-word when speaking about Black men, told me that I was ‘not like other Black people,’ and then tried to apologize for his racism by blaming his grandmother for his upbringing.” —Vivian H.
“While eating lunch with white college friends, one guy was discussing Jon ‘Bones’ Jones’ chances in an upcoming fight and said, ‘I see him on all fours, so I think he’ll probably monkey his way out.'” —Jourdan G. These 12 everyday expressions are also racist.
“I was in the car with a white friend while he was on a speaker call with his sister. She was talking about her date for an upcoming formal and said, ‘Don’t worry, he’s not Black. He’s just brown. Don’t freak out. I think his mom is, like, half Mexican or something.’ My white friend then changed the subject.” —Jamal W.
“During my first full-time job in Syracuse, when I was the only Black employee there at the time, one white employee frequently used the N-word. Another said that Beyoncé’s Super Bowl performance was similar to the KKK. Another said that Colin Kaepernick shouldn’t be complaining since he plays a sport that is celebrated by all. Another nicknamed me...
“I work as a bank teller and normally there would be no problem with that, but I am a Black woman. There is a moment that will always stick out to me, and that was when a woman asked to speak to my manager. She proceeded to talk in front of me and ask him what the bank would do if I decided to steal all of her information and buy myself a new car. ...
“When I was around ten years old, my cousins and I were spending the summer at my great-grandma’s in the South. We walked to the neighborhood corner store in a group one hot day to get snacks and juice. As we are walking up, we see a group of non-Black kids, clearly together, come out of the store all at once. When we tried to enter, we were told w...
XiXinXing/Getty Images“I can remember being in eighth grade and waiting in the lunch line to get my food when a kid called me a Chink. That same kid would stretch the corners of his eyes every time I saw him during lunch. I was embarrassed, so I pretended I didn’t care when I really did. One day, a teacher saw him doing the ‘Asian eyes’ at me and y...
“During one lunch period in high school, a teammate and someone I considered a friend announced to our entire friend group that my hair texture reminded her of the homeless man who always walked around town. Like his hair, mine reminded her of a bristle brush.” —Dawn C.
“When I was a junior in high school, I sat with three girls at lunch. Two of them I wasn’t very fond of, but one was my best friend growing up. One of the girls, in particular, liked basketball; if we didn’t stop her, she would spend the entire lunch period talking about the sport. One day her team lost, and as she angrily recapped the match, she s...
Sep 6, 2024 · Seven works of art that explore race in America. Even in a city…. Arnika Dawkins Gallery features fine art photography created by artists of the African diaspora or about people of African ...
Jun 18, 2020 · Black people have long suffered from persistent inequality in the United States due to centuries of racism, discrimination and the long-lasting effects of slavery.
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Jun 17, 2020 · The recent spate of police killings and well-documented police violence at largely peaceful protests — from students being dragged from a car in Atlanta, Georgia, to a 75-year-old man being pushed...
