The unfortunate history of racial bias in photography. Subscribe today: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO For decades, the color film available to consumers was built for white people. The chemicals coating the film simply weren’t adequate to capture a diversity of darker skin tones. And the photo labs established in the 1940s and 50s even used an image of […]
If you have ever had even a surface level conversation about blacks in The United States of America, chances are that you have heard of the brown paper bag test or the paper bag test. Very briefly, in case you haven’t heard of it… The brown paper bag test is an early 1900’s discriminatory practice […]
A North Carolina man has been sentenced to death after he was convicted of murdering his teen daughter along with a rape charges. Law enforcement officials said 35-year-old Joshua Lee Burgess walked in August 2019 at around 9:24 am and explained the details of the crime to 911 dispatchers. A press release from the sheriff’s […]
http://tinyurl.com/yf3rusx American Idol alum Kimberley Locke joined Tyra for an in-depth talk about the lives of biracial people. Plus, she opened up by sharing personal stories about her struggles with growing up biracial. Then, Tyra met with biracial guests who felt so strongly about how they are racially identified, that they were dying to speak […]
Paula Patton has recently opened up about why she doesn’t agree with using the term biracial although her parents are from two different racial groups. While promoting BET+ series “Sacrifice, ” the actress was interviewed by SiriusXM’s Urban View “The Clay Cane Show” to talk about reprising her role as lawyer Daniella Hernandez. During the […]
This Tyra Banks episode featuring a former Jain girl who ran away from her Indian family to marry an African American Muslim hip hop fashion designer. Tyra made us a vegan breakfast in bed for Valentine’s Day. No, we did not drink the champagne. =) This inspirational story is becoming a movie, and a book […]
In an interview with CNN, Laster said that Hoffmeyer got home on March 24 with a chunk of her hair missing telling her dad that another girl at school cut it. They then had a hairstylist fix her hair by giving her an asymmetrical bob cut that left some of the hair’s length. Two days […]
An LGBTQ+ biracial couple is showing people how it’s done when it comes to their family. Ebony and Denise, who have a TikTok page together under the username @team2moms, post uplifting videos to their page to help normalize families with two mothers. Ebony and Denise share three children, twins Jayden and Lucas and Olivia. “So, […]
A Michigan father has moved his 7-year-old biracial daughter from one school to another after the child’s hair was cut on separate occasions by a classmate and a teacher. Jimmy Hoffmeyer said Monday he also is considering taking his daughter, Jurnee, out of Mount Pleasant Public Schools and enrolling her in a private school. On […]
Mother Files Lawsuit Against Nevada School After She Says Biracial Son Received Failing Grade In Sociology Class for Refusing to Confess His ‘White Dominance’ A Black mother is suing her son’s Nevada charter school after she alleges he received a failing grade for refusing to link aspects of his identity to oppression and dominance in […]