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  • An Intimate Look at Race: Growing Up Biracial in a Racially Torn World Wellesley Centers for Women Book Reading \ Panel \ Conversation with Author Sil Lai Abrams Clapp Library, Lecture Room Wellesley College 106 Central Street Wellesley, Massachusetts Tuesday, 2016-10-25, 16:30-17:00 EST (Local Time) Presenters: Author Sil Lai Abrams with Linda Charmaraman, Ph.D., Layli…

  • Today, seeing Black footballers playing the game at the very highest level is considered very normal. This, certainly, was not the case one hundred and forty years ago, and this is what makes the story of Andrew Watson so remarkable.

  • This mixed race family didn’t ‘see color.’ Then police said a white supremacist killed their son The Oregonian 2016-10-16 Casey Parks A banner hanging above the couch proclaims it a house divided. “But only when it comes to football,” Natasha Bruce said. When it came to race, the old wood house in Vancouver, Wash. was…

  • DNA tests show fallacy of Jim Crow The Albuquerque Journal 2014-03-21 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Harvard University I am filming guest interviews for Season 2 of the genealogy series “Finding Your Roots,” airing on PBS this September. One of…

  • Mixed race and mixed reactions Columbia Daily Spectator 2016-10-17 Laura Salgado “But, like, what are you?” It’s a question I’m asked pretty often, both inside and outside of Morningside Heights. You’d think that after almost two decades on this planet I’d finally be able to answer it easily, but you’d be wrong. This seemingly innocent…

  • Yom Kippur Haftorah: Black Lives Matter Medium 2016-10-12 Chanda Prescod-Weinstein The opening chapter of a handwritten Book of Esther. source: Wikipedia You shall love people — including Black people — with all your heart I shared this with my synagogue during Yom Kippur 5777 Shacharit services. To grow up Black in America is to know that your humanity is always in…

  • This the first of a two part feature on the changing face of the Jewish Community. Read part two here.

  • Last time I worshipped in a synagogue was Sept. 5, 2014. And I won’t be going today. That might surprise my friends, who put up with my bragging ad nauseam about how Jewish I am.

  • Behind the Scenes of Loving, the Most Beautiful Love Story Ever Told Vogue 2016-10-17 (November 2016) Danzy Senna photographed by Mario Testino Photographed by Mario Testino, Vogue, November 2016 Meet Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton, the brilliant stars of Loving, Jeff Nichols’s sweeping portrait of an interracial couple fıghting for their right to marry in…

  • Society still largely operates under the misapprehension that race (largely defined by skin colour) has some basis in biology. There is a perpetuating idea that black-skinned or white-skinned people across the world share a similar set of genes that set the two races apart, even across continents. In short, it’s what Appiah calls “total twaddle”.…