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On Prince Harry and Meghan Markle: Interracial Couples and Their Multiracial Children Will Not Save
This weekend, people all around the world will be tuning in to watch the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, an American...
Dr. Chi
May 18, 20184 min read


Black Panther and “Growing Up African” in Chicago
I grew up in Chicago in the 1980s and 90s in the days of Christie Brinkley as the American beauty ideal. The Jherri curl was the...
Dr. Chi
Mar 22, 20184 min read


Dr. Stacia Gilliard-Matthews, Mi Amigona
She was my sister. As daughters of the Most High, we prayed for each other, sometimes to the point of tears. She introduced me to her...
Dr. Chi
Dec 5, 20173 min read


Rachel Dolezal: ‘Negra Frustrada’ (Frustrated Black Woman)
Race is a social construction. We have heard that phrase over and over again to the point that it has become a bit hackneyed. When I...
Dr. Chi
May 24, 20175 min read
Fiction: The Time It Never Happened
Oge had her very first ingrown hair, but she didn’t know it initially. Something was painful “down there” and it brushed against her...
Dr. Chi
Jul 23, 20164 min read


African Immigrants and the New Black Middle Class
Too often in our society, when the media links class and African Americans, they have their eyes on issues of poverty. Decades ago,...
Dr. Chi
Jun 27, 20163 min read


Paris During the Attacks
I went to a conference on “Mixedness” at the Sorbonne in Paris. On the last day of the conference, some of the conference participants...
Dr. Chi
Dec 28, 201512 min read
“Loving Black Men (Adorar Negão): Brazilian White Wives of Black Men”
The plus-sized supermodel, Tess Holliday, told The Guardian newspaper, “Black men love me.” This sparked an online firestorm, leading her...
Dr. Chi
Jun 11, 20155 min read
Advice for the Young at Heart
Right now is not a good time to be in the U.S. We are watching how agents of the state kill unarmed African American men and get away...
Dr. Chi
Dec 8, 20143 min read
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