One Drop Rule

Ralph Taylor of Washington thought he was white for 55 years, but it turns out he’s 4% African. Now he’s suing for a minority business loan. It might work because of the one drop rule that said if you had one drop of black blood you were black. DL says if you want to be […]

Tackling the oppressive, anti-miscegenation one-drop rule in an article on CNN.com, Dr. Yaba Blay (pictured above), the brilliant author of “(1) Drop: Shifting the Lens…