At the White House Correspondents Dinner, Wilmore called Obama the N-word. I don’t allow it in my home, but I know it has its place in black culture

She demanded deference and fidelity to her prejudiced ideas in exchange for her love. I was horrified when I transferred that self-serving anger on to a friend

Clinton enjoys the support of older black women, and she’s seeking the votes of younger ones. But a tone deafness to the issues we face can’t be ignored

The documentary posits a link between vaccines and autism in African American boys. It’s a threat to black children, and De Niro should have known better

White people like Bill Clinton can be blind to race because they perceive themselves as race-less; they believe that it’s a boon to offer that to black people

My white birthmother told me that the idea that I was gorgeous was a fiction inflicted upon me out of a sense of white liberal guilt

White Hollywood stars with black children have an important role to play in speaking up against racial discrimination in Hollywood

We’re not millennials, but student debt, a lack of inherited wealth and the real-estate dealings of the rich put home ownership out of our reach

His legal action is an act of misogyny – perhaps the same hatred that might have driven him, as accusers allege, to rape and sexually assault more than 50 of them

Intentions behind adoption aren’t always pure. Now, the focus of adoptive parents is shifting to acknowledge the complexities involved in the process

I was dogged in my determination to evolve outside the narrow margins of the small white world of my beginning and into another more racially familiar one

When everything is an aspirational performance, there’s no way to tell who is really confident and happy and who is pretending to be on the internet

People are afraid of the power that true equality can give the historically disenfranchised and afraid of having been wrong

The trope is alive and well; I’m never just offended, or annoyed, or feeling strengthened by my convictions in the eyes of others

The power of being surrounded by black people is that the sheer sense of community is enough

At 14, all I wanted was to leave my hometown. But when I did, I was assaulted by a famous TV anchor - and learned how we blame young women instead of men

There have been times that I’ve drunk too much, and times when I haven’t drunk anything at all. But I finally figured out why I drink, and why I won’t stop

The motivation for killing six women and three men at church wasn’t that white women are inviolable. It must have been that black women are disposable

Police officers looked at me in the same lascivious way as they did other women. I learned they weren’t there to protect me as much as watch me.

The deaths of so many black men cannot be reduced to ‘good’ white people and ‘bad’. The problem is systemic and ingrained