Hi, I’m Black and I’m PROUD!
Elecia Terrell, Arlington, TX I’m very proud of my blackness. To many, we’re too loud, always angry, ghetto, love chicken and watermelon, always on government...
Black 365 days of the year.
Marquez Jones, Houston, TX I chose “Black 365 Days of the Year” because in my heart and in the manner that I live my life,...
Black physician, highly educated, still enslaved
Michael P. Maddox, Indianapolis, IN I have taken and passed every test required, kept up to date professionally, showed up when expected, worked in tandem...
“Blackness is not a cohesive experience! “
Mya Wilson, GA See my skin, it’s not to be breezed over like the elephant in the room! It tells part of my story; not...
The Uncertainty My Blackness Brings Me
Ashlei, Knoxville, TN Being a black woman sometimes feels like I will always have unjust obstacles in my life. I will learn to deal with...
Long hair for a black girl.
Paige, MI Growing up, this is something I have heard countless times. Microaggressions like this are not only offensive, but further divide us as a...
I’m Black before I’m anything else.
Jan Miles, New Orleans, LA. I’m not a woman–I’m a BLACK woman. I’m not a writer–I’m a BLACK writer. In law school, I was a...
You’re mixed with that hair, right?
Khairah L. Walker, Montclair Heights, NJ. My hair is not my heritage. It’s been an issue my entire life, people define me because of it....
Teacher of black youth, ancestors slaverholders
Ernie Lee Savannah, GA Struggling with my whiteness and my student’s blackness until we connect. I am a good teacher and after a while I...
My Son’s Blackness shouldn’t Disable him
Monika L. Brooks Oakland, CA My Son still has to be given the talk about how he has to ignore the people that think he...
Prayed God would make me White
Amber Price, Atlanta, GA. I was raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee. I grew up ashamed of my Blackness. I heard the n-word for the first time...
Black with dreads and white husband
Tiffany Yizar, Norwalk, CT. My blackness and black cultural authenticity is never questioned, until people discover I have a white husband. As if his race...
AfroLatins are not seen in textooks
Omar Eaton-Martinez, Oxon Hill, MD. Afro Diasporic communities need more opportunity to build coalition around blackness.
In Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates at AtlanticLive New York Ideas 2015
REPOST: AtlanticLIVE online – May 20, 2015 Atlantic national correspondent Ta-Nehisi Coates and NPR host and special correspondent Michele Norris have a conversation about Norris’s Race...
