Two race scandals dominate the headlines in South Africa today, both of them concerning slurs against the colored community of the Western Cape, where I live. On Sunday, socialite Nomakula “Kuli” ...

After three years, Amanda Cloete and her people are beginning to act on their fears about being of “mixed race” in a multi-racial democracy. Their frustration erupted publicly two weeks ago, when the ...

MITCHELL’S PLAIN, South Africa — Ahmed Semaar — “colored” man in this country of abiding ethnic compartments — recalls the comment of a friend when he talks about the dilemma of his people in South ...

When trendy goes wrong: In August, author Teri Woods, best known for her True to the Game street fiction trilogy, threw a party at the hard-to-get-into New York club Greenhouse to celebrate her new ...

It was intended to be a stark reminder of the racism that stained the Jim Crow South. But the mother of two Honey Creek Elementary School students said the lesson went too far after they discovered ...

AT a funeral in Cape Town recently, a young Colored woman ran up to her father’s sister, whom she had not seen in several months. “Hello, auntie!” she cried. Tossing her head contemptuously, the older ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. We Coloreds have taken a vote and decided that we don’t cotton to that whole ...

Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill (R) said Wednesday morning that he did not have an extramarital affair, claiming that the woman who alleged otherwise, Cesaire McPherson, was "stalking" and ...

At least he must be happy she specifically wanted to talk to him. A 90-year-old C-SPAN viewer requested specifically to ask the “colored man” anchoring Washington Journal why it is “coloreds” are ...