blackness

The Trouble with Biden’s “You Ain’t Black” Remark

Robert Crohan/Staff Writer Last week proved once again that America is still more divided than ever. Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, ran into a heap of trouble when he went on “The Breakfast Club,” a popular radio show among black Millennials. Host Charlamagne tha God pressed Biden on his record with […]

How Toxic Masculinity Fails Black Boys

Rashawn Raysor/Staff Writer On May 11, American rapper Boosie Badazz held an Instagram Live session where he admitted to paying adult women to have oral sex with his son and nephew who were underaged at the time. Boosie claimed that the motivation behind this was to make sure his child didn’t become gay. He was […]

Black At FIU Law

Riquan King/Guest Columnist Having finished over 90% of my law school journey, I now look back on my journey through law school as a black man. The first thing that comes to mind is the huge amount of privilege that comes with not just making it to law school, but being on the verge of […]

Am I Black Enough?

Rashawn Raysor/Staff Writer There’s this strange phrase that has haunted me for most of my life, a strange phrase that seems to have lingered in the black community for a long time now. “You act white.” I heard this throughout my childhood and adolescence. I heard it so much that I would question my own […]

Blackness ‘not an economic status’

Akilah Davis/ Staff Writer It seems as if each article I write goes on to inspire my next, but inspiration does what it wants. I recently read a column in the Miami Herald written by entrepreneur Brian Brackeen, in which he expressed his “blackness” or “lack thereof.” He wrote that he had a lost an […]

Professor uses camera lens to document “blackness”

“(1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race,” published on Nov. 28, 2013, is a combination of written biographies and photographs that investigate the lived experiences of people who identify as Black or have their “blackness” questioned.

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