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Jenée Desmond-Harris

Jenée Desmond-Harris

Former Race, Law, and Politics Reporter

    Latest articles by Jenée Desmond-Harris

    Pew study: 67 percent of white social media users don’t post about race
    Internet Culture

    Most of them don’t see others discussing the topic either.

    By Jenée Desmond-Harris
    A Pew report shows that tweeting about race is more than “hashtag activism”
    Internet Culture

    This list of Twitter’s top 10 race and racism days is revealing.

    By Jenée Desmond-Harris
    Life
    Implicit bias means we’re all probably at least a little bit racistImplicit bias means we’re all probably at least a little bit racist
    Life

    Think of it as “thoughts about people you didn’t know you had.”

    By Jenée Desmond-Harris
    Study: black people simply saying they’re multiracial makes others think they’re better-looking
    archives

    The results have nothing to do with the way people actually look.

    By Jenée Desmond-Harris
    A viral Christian blog post about accepting interracial marriage shows how deep racial bias runs
    Religion

    The author had to pray to accept her black son-in-law. It was bad.

    By Jenée Desmond-Harris
    Olympics
    Simone Manuel’s Olympic gold is also a victory over swimming’s racist historySimone Manuel’s Olympic gold is also a victory over swimming’s racist history
    Olympics

    People worked so hard to keep African Americans out of pools. They lost.

    By Jenée Desmond-Harris and Victoria M. Massie
    A Kanye West collaborator says she might decide to be black. No.
    Culture

    Yes, race is socially constructed. But not through artistic “mind-melds” with rappers.

    By Jenée Desmond-Harris
    Why Clinton doesn’t have to criticize black people like Obama does
    2016 Presidential Election

    One expert says, as “a white lady talking about race,” Hillary can speak more freely.

    By Jenée Desmond-Harris
    “This was the new Jim Crow”: an oral history of the Ferguson protests
    Police Violence

    Local residents, activists, officials, and journalists recall the life-changing August 2014 events in Ferguson.

    By German Lopez, Rachel Huggins and 2 more
    Sports
    The diverse women’s gymnastics team is great. But it will not “calm race relations.”The diverse women’s gymnastics team is great. But it will not “calm race relations.”
    Sports

    These three tweets about Simone Biles and her teammates are lessons on how not to think about racism.

    By Jenée Desmond-Harris