Ijeoma Oluo: It didn't feel very provocative to me at the time.The idea of mediocre white men and the harm that they cause is not new. As a Black woman, I and my peers are very familiar with it.

OLUO: What shocked many people, especially white people, was seeing four cops participate in this killing. It wasn't one bad apple acting against a Black person.

In her latest book, Oluo aims to take our conversations on racism out of a place of pain and trauma and into a place of loving action. Ijeoma Oluo’s new book on fighting racism, making change ...

Ijeoma Oluo doesn’t like to talk about race. But she has to. She talks about race so that maybe the gap that separates white people from people of color can be bridged. Her new book, “So You ...

Oluo said she steels herself for the resurfacing of the tweets every M.L.K. Day, but was surprised to see them come up in April this year. A condensed version of her story, complete with ...

Oluo says she was besieged by racist attacks on Twitter and Facebook. Twitter, she says, removed the tweets and shut down accounts. Facebook, on the other hand, ...

In 2015, Oluo left the technology and digital marketing worlds to become a full time writer-activist, inspired in part by Toni Morrison, who began writing books later in life.

OLUO: What inspired me was the community that has been there for me as a Black woman, that has been there for my family and my community, and recognizing that this is how we get by.

Ijeoma Oluo (Author, Educator), Rachel Cargle (Author, Educator, Loveland Foundation), & Elijah Lee (a 12-year-old minister) give us a look at what the life of an anti-racist activist is really like.

Ijeoma Oluo’s fascinating new book Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America has a title that is pretty self explanatory. “Give me the confidence of a mediocre white man” (coined ...