Category: Articles

  • B. Iden Payne Awards 2015 Winners and Nominees B. Iden Payne Awards Austin, Texas 2015-10-26 Below are the nominees for the 2014-2015 theatrical season. THEATER FOR YOUTH: 2014 – 2015  Season Outstanding Production Winner: Am I White / Salvage Vanguard Theater Outstanding Direction Winner: Jenny Larson / Am I White, Salvage Vanguard Theater Outstanding Lead…

  • Multiracial Teens Talk About Their Identity Rip Tides Women’s eNews 2015-10-27 Stephanie Geier, Teen Voices for Women’s eNews The pressures and rejections come from within, from peers, from different sides of their families. “No matter how hard I tried I was always too white for the black kids and too black for the white kids,”…

  • Alumna and author Danzy Senna visits high school The Sagamore: Brookline High School’s student newspaper Brookline High School, Brookline, Massachusetts 2015-09-29 Sam Klein, Valentina Rojas-Posada and Sofia Tong Danzy Senna, alumna and author of junior and senior summer reading book Caucasia, came to the high school today for a day of discussions with students and…

  • Rescuing Discarded Images of Everyday Black Life The New York Times 2015-10-20 David Gonzalez, Side Street Columnist Who throws away family photos? How do faded, blurry squares that chronicled weddings, ballgames and goofy moments at home end up abandoned, tossed to the curb or in boxes bought sight unseen at storage auctions? Zun Lee has…

  • Defying the Stereotype of the Broken Black Family The New Yorker 2015-10-12 Lucy McKeon For his series “Father Figure,” begun in 2011, the photographer Zun Lee created quiet and tender portraits of black fathers with their children: one kisses the tiny hand of his baby while riding the subway; another goofs around at bedtime, his…

  • Photo Gallery Highlights Multiracial Student Experiences The Havard Crimson 2015-10-26 Aafreen Azmi, Contributing Writer Brandon J. Dixon, Contributing Writer Students study the portraits on display at “OTHER: A Multiracial Student Photo Gallery” at the exhibition’s opening on Sunday afternoon. Eliza R. Pugh Students expressed their desire to define their racial identities on their own terms…

  • Race In R.I.: The Invisible Natives The Providence Journal Providence, Rhode Island 2015-10-24 G. Wayne Miller, Journal Staff Writer Their ancestors were the state’s original settlers, but today’s Indians say whites ‘don’t even see us’ First of two parts EXETER – On this fine autumn morning, Paulla Dove Jennings welcomes a visitor into her home…

  • The myth of race The Cripplegate 2015-10-22 Jesse Johnson, Teaching Pastor Immanuel Bible Church, Springfield, Virginia One of the most harmful effects of evolutionary theory is the concept of race. Despite having zero scientific validity to it, the idea that human beings can be categorized into general “races” that are supposedly connected to their biology…

  • Why Germany’s latest Nazi satire ‘Heil’ isn’t brave enough Deutsche Welle 2015-07-16 Sarah Hofmann An unlikely spokesman Neo-Nazi boss Sven (left, played by Beno Fürmann) celebrates a victory. He kidnapped Afro-German author Sebastian Klein (played by Jerry Hoffmann), who suffers from amnesia after behind hit on the head. Klein starts mimicking everything the neo-Nazis say.…

  • Cook: Race and the practice of medicine The Casper Star Tribune Casper, Wyoming 2015-10-24 Edith Cook Edith Cook/Perspective We now know once and for all that race is not a biological phenomenon but a social construct. The Human Genome Project, completed in 2000, established that, genetically, all of us human beings are more than 99.9…