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 ...

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 ...

The Huffington Post and TMZ are reporting that Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry have moved beyond just battling for custody of their daughter, Nahla. In the wake of Berry’s allegations that Aubry called ...

In contrast, the other "diverse" 30% were de facto considered the victimized. In such absurd binaries, the left returned to the old "one-drop" rule of the antebellum South, suggesting that anyone with ...

Mississippi law criminalized interracial marriage with life imprisonment shortly after the Civil War. The legal definition of Blackness in Mississippi evolved, eventually adopting the "one-drop" rule ...