Donald Trump’s recent comments about Kamala Harris’s shifting racial identity were an unforced error. It was a certainty that Trump would be unable to navigate ...

Many biracial people publicly identify themselves with only one race (for example, either black or white, but not both). President Obama raised eyebrows when he checked only one box on his 2010 Census ...

Writing at ColorLines, Akiba Solomon interviews Yaba Blay, a contributing producer of CNN’s “Who Is Black in America?” segment about the lingering pain of the “one drop” rule, which Blay says is ...

Donald Trump watches a video of Vice President Kamala Harris during a campaign rally in Las Vegas on Sept. 13, 2024. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Americans who heard former President Donald Trump ...

Halle Berry’s interview with Ebony magazine is raising some eyebrows, as the actress, involved in a custody battle with her white ex-boyfriend over their two-year old daughter, cited the “one-drop” ...

Clearly, the one-drop rule is racist as hell and comes out of a white supremacist foundation. But it is still at the core of how blackness is defined in this country and we haven't spent enough time ...