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Dear LIE, I’ve been collecting kids books with a wide variety of multicultural and anti-racist messages for years (both for my own son and for a class I teach to undergraduates that struggles with the question of how we should … Continue reading →

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So, it used to be that we were deluged with images. We easily had a 6 month stockpile of cute kids to post on the site. But lately, the well’s gone dry. Even ridiculous photos of me dressed as batman … Continue reading →

Democracy Now! has released a series of interviews reflecting on the Trayvon Martin case: -Natalie Jackson, an attorney for Trayvon Martin’s family, discusses the witness testimonies and the statements of George Zimmerman’s family. “Clearly, they are trying to protect their … Continue reading →

Hello all! Apologies for the slow posting week here at LIE. We have been gearing up for the event this Saturday, Images in the River, about teaching black girls about gender bias and equality and helping their voices to be … Continue reading →

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[Editor's note: Please feel free to add additional calls to action in the comments.] Move On’s Petition to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder George Zimmerman’s shooting of Trayvon Martin, an African American teenager, reveals … Continue reading →

If you are in NYC, I envy you. I hope you will turn out in your hoodie at Union Square tonight. If you’re not in NYC, do not despair. Organizers ask you to take a photo of yourself in your … Continue reading →

Voices: Justice for Trayvon Martin [Racialicious] And now, the waiting begins. Again. Once again, a young person of color is dead, and hundreds of thousands of people are hoping for justice to be served. Less than a year ago, it … Continue reading →

Written by Love Isn’t Enough Guest Contributor Anne Sibley O’Brien; Originally published at Coloring Between the Lines Recently I’ve been collecting nonfiction children’s books (mostly from the 1990′s, mostly library discards) addressing racism, including these titles: What Do We Think … Continue reading →

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How to Kill a Child’s Critical Thinking [Native Son] This past weekend an article was retweeted into my timeline and I was completely taken aback. Ever so often there comes a story that demands my attention due to its infelicitous, … Continue reading →

Trayvon Martin: Sorry, the First Murder Is Free of Charge [Addicting Info] Interestingly enough, the Sanford police saw no reason to arrest Zimmerman, who admitted he just gunned down an unarmed kid on the street walking home from a convenience … Continue reading →

Written by Love Isn’t Enough Guest Contributor Jennifer; Originally published at Mixed Race America My friend and colleague Tim Yu has a piece on CNN’s Opinion Page, “Will Jeremy Lin’s Success End Stereotypes?” It is a very smart and very … Continue reading →

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Written by Love Isn’t Enough Guest Contributor Andrea (AJ) Plaid; Originally published at Racialicious Honestly, reading some of the analyses about the fauxpology from Very Smart Brothas about their “rape prevention advice” and rapper Too $hort’s “fatherly advice” to boys … Continue reading →

Dear White Women [My Brown Baby] Dear White Women, I know the breastfeeding world is all abuzz over reports that Beyonce breastfed her beautifully brown baby, Blue Ivy Carter, in public last week and that we consider this a victory … Continue reading →

Dear Tami,  Myname is Efrat, and I’m a graduate student at Drexel University. I amstudying African American women’s coping after miscarriage and stillbirth.African American women experience miscarriage and stillbirth twice as often asany other racial/ethnic group, but there is almost … Continue reading →

Written by Love Isn’t Enough Contributor A. Bloom At five, our daughter, was still very much looking to our black friends and adults in her life (professors, artists, heath-professionals, and our pastor) to develop her sense of self. As white … Continue reading →