Category: Articles

  • The Tax Sleuth Who Took Down a Drug Lord The New York Times 2015-12-25 Nathaniel Popper, Wall Street Reporter Gary Alford, a special agent with the I.R.S., pored over old blog posts and chat room logs that led, eventually, to Dread Pirate Roberts. Cole Wilson for The New York Times Gary L. Alford was running…

  • Black in a Foreign Land: In Defense of Dominican Identity The Huffington Post 2015-12-17 César Vargas I was born and raised in the Dominican Republic until I was two months shy of turning 13. The Dominican Republic has a peculiar color metric system–not necessarily on race. So it should go without saying that I wasn’t…

  • How To Be A Black Girl Thought Catalog 2014-12-03 Carmen Molina Chicago, Illinois I will always feel a little strange calling myself a black girl. Whenever I am at a party or somewhere where there are new people to meet, the question that every mixed girl gets asked at least once a week, every week,…

  • When You Grow Up Mixed Race Thought Catalog 2015-12-11 Evicka Chang Growing up mixed-race is confusing. It wasn’t until my third year of University when the theory of hybridity was introduced in a Lit Theory class that I even began to consider the complexities of my own existence. It was also then that I started…

  • Mixed Race Experience in Celeste Ng’s EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU GrubStreet 2015-12-01 Sonya Larson Not many characters in literature look like me. Half Chinese and half white, I’m used to reading about people who could occupy one half of my family tree, but rarely about the person who emerges where their branches join. I’m…

  • The many faces of Frederick Douglass Democrat and Chronicle Rochester, New York 2015-12-25 Jim Memmott, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English University of Rochester, Rochester, New York Portrait of Frederick Douglass taken November 3, 1882 by John Howe Kent, 24 State Street, Rochester, New York (Photo: Courtesy of the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and…

  • When a master class with ballerina Misty Copeland becomes a San Pedro homecoming The Los Angeles Times 2015-12-23 Deborah Vankin, Contact Reporter Ascendant ballerina Misty Copeland leads a master class during Monday’s celebration in San Pedro. (Christina House/For The Times) The crowd of about 200 huddled in the parking lot of San Pedro City Ballet,…

  • Feet in two worlds: The American Indian, cowboy hybrid NonDoc 2015-12-26 Sunny Cooper (Sunny Cooper) The Native American is historically pedigreed. Its bloodlines bound through hundreds of years and generations, and lopes straight as I-40. Not so with the American Cowboy. Here, history zigzags, revealing how Spaniards and Native Americans formed the early American Cowboy:…

  • DEMING, Whatcom County — In his big gray truck, Gabriel Galanda makes a notable entrance into a Nooksack tribal-housing development of a couple dozen modest homes, set on a winding road about a half-hour east of Bellingham. Many of the residents, members of a sprawling clan who move easily in and out of each other’s…

  • Jeremy Gordon on growing up multiracial, assimilation and “whiteness” in post-Obama America.