People like to tell me about my biracial kids. We get all kinds of commentary about them. Often, the things people say are connected to...

Particularly, if you’re a strange adult she just met. We’re grown. Can we have a grown people conversation real quick? Please, don’t ask...

“What are you a brain surgeon?” A white police officer asked my black partner this when we lived in Boston. My husband had just picked me...

She’s biracial, bicultural, and she is perceptive. This little girl has seemingly known about race since her birth — ok maybe not that...

To mother doesn’t mean you have offspring. Mothering also doesn’t require that one possess eggs and Fallopian tubes. The act of mothering...

Whiteness offers a kind of belonging—at least on the surface. It gives me—a white woman in the U.S.—a sense of place, a group to identify...

My dear white people, you’ve asked, so let’s talk about it. Many a time you’ve directly asked this of me. Other times, it goes unspoken,...

You’re behaving like an a**. This brand of leadership is the sort we need to be rid of. If you haven't heard about what the governor of...

I’ve been told that I write and talk about race because I think it’s “cool.” Some have said that I’m trying to fit in with the “woke” or...