Category: Articles

  • Leaving to learn Columbia Daily Spectator 2015-12-02 Claire Liebmann Courtesy of Karl Jacoby Several years ago while browsing newspaper clippings online, Karl Jacoby, a history professor at Columbia, came across the story of William Ellis—a Texan slave who built a million dollar fortune while posing as a Mexican millionaire in New York, essentially hacking the…

  • Love in the face of racism: Being an interracial family Cable News Network (CNN) 2015-11-25 Jareen Imam, Social Discovery Producer CNN)—When Karen Garsee picked her 5-year-old daughter up from kindergarten in September, she wasn’t prepared for what Kaylee had to say. The kids at school wouldn’t play with me today. Why? Because I’m brown. Those…

  • Mixed-race marriages a reflection of multicultural Blacktown The Daily Telegraph Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia 2015-12-01 Nick Houghton Joanne Vella, Editor Blacktown Advocate Quakers Hill one of Blacktown’s most livable suburbs Iranian migrant calls ‘multicultural tolerant’ Australia home WHEN Stephen Zahra went on a four-week holiday to Vietnam in 2006, little did he know…

  • Keep It Simple at TEDxIndianapolis The Indianapolis Star 2015-10-21 Leslie Bailey “When asked how he created his masterpiece, Michelangelo said, ‘It was easy. You just chip away that which does not look like David.’ What if our lives are our masterpiece? What if we chipped away all that was unnecessary, all the clutter and the…

  • Bevers was also notable for co-founding what would become the Anchorage Fur Rendezvous festival, and for being a black man who passed as white.

  • “Brillo head,” “Don King,” “Sideshow Bob”: It took me years to embrace the hair that white people scorned Salon 2015-11-28 Sarah Enelow Growing up, everyone thought they could “fix” my hair. I believed them, and paid the price. I was 16 and had been in the bathroom for two hours working on my hair. My…

  • ‘We have a right to determine how our histories are told’: An interview with poet Toni Stuart Goldsmiths University of London News 2015-11-25 Sarah Cox On Thursday 3 December the Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies (CCDS) and Centre for Feminist Research host a spoken word performance by Toni Stuart: poet, festival organiser and educator,…

  • ‘Black-ish’ Star Yara Shahidi Is a Role Model Off-Screen The New York Times 2015-11-27 Hannah Seligson Ms. Shahidi, 15, won the N.A.A.C.P. Image Award for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series this year. Credit Emily Berl for The New York Times “Life as a teenager can be down right chaotic,” the actress Yara Shahidi,…

  • Meet April Baskin, the Multiracial Face of Reform Judaism Forward 2015-11-28 Allison Kaplan Sommer (Haaretz) Image: Haaretz See also: “Black and Jewish: New Reform Leader Works to Bring Marginalized Groups Into the Tribe” on 2015-11-25 from Haaretz. To meet April Baskin is to see the change in American Jewry personified. A tall, confident, 32-year-old with an impressive…

  • Black Lives Matter in the Dominican Republic teleSUR 2015-08-11 Auset Marian Lewis Racial profiling is not just happening in the U.S., Haitians in the Dominican Republic suffer the same discrimination. “Black lives matter” is a resounding cry heard around the world. The UN Working Group of Experts of People of African Descent said as much…