Category: Articles

  • A True Story of Love, Race and Royalty Gets Crammed Into A United Kingdom LA Weekly 2017-02-06 April Wolfe, Lead Film Critic Courtesy of Fox Searchlight In director Amma Asante’s epic political romance A United Kingdom, David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike star as Seretse and Ruth Khama, the interracial royal couple who stunned the world…

  • It’s Not Simply Black and White: Onscreen mixed-race romances (sort of) grow up Film Journal International 2017-02-10 Simi Horwitz, Cultural Reporter/Features Writer New York, New York Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, now celebrating its 50th anniversary, was not the first film to deal with an interracial love story, though it was the first to present…

  • I organized a panel of mixed-race ceramic sculpture artists whose work speaks to issues of race and identity titled “Paradox: Identity & Belonging” for NCECA’s 50th anniversary conference in Kansas City, Missouri, last spring. Fellow Canadian, Brendan Tang, as well as Americans Jennifer Datchuk and Nathan Murray joined me on stage.

  • Ashley Minner is a community based visual artist from Baltimore, Maryland. She holds a BFA in Fine Art, an MA and an MFA in Community Art, which she earned at MICA. A member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, she has been active in the Baltimore Lumbee community for many years. Her involvement in…

  • Why A New Mixed Race Generation Will Not Solve Racism BuzzFeed 2017-02-10 Lauren Michele Jackson, BuzzFeed Contributor Chicago, Illinois A promotional still from A United Kingdom. Fox Searchlight Pictures Love may trump hate, but it can’t cure white supremacy. On January 23, Chrissy Teigen — model, “domestic goddess,” and number one John Legend troll — decided…

  • Reel Representation: Amma Asante’s films adeptly portray multiracial identity The Daily Bruin Los Angeles, California 2017-02-09 Olivia Mazzucato Diversity in film and television came into the spotlight in 2016 with #OscarsSoWhite. A USC study in 2016 found only about a quarter of speaking characters belonged to non-white racial/ethnic groups. In “Reel Representation,” columnist Olivia Mazzucato…

  • I am much more than ‘a disgrace to black people’ The Charlotte Observer Charlotte, North Carolina 2017-02-09 Nicolas Coleman, Special to the Observer Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Duke freshman Nicolas Coleman understands why others have questioned his blackness In seventh grade I was labeled “a disgrace to black people.” I was made of aware…

  • The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts by Amber D. Moulton (review) The Journal of the Civil War Era Volume 6, Number 4, December 2016 pages 594-596 DOI: 10.1353/cwe.2016.0075 Tamika Y. Nunley, Assistant Professor of History Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts. By Amber D. Moulton.…

  • Black Semitic Girl Reader At The Airport Medium 2017-02-07, 21:00 PST (Local Time) Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Theoretical Astro|Physicist Where books become bombs Seattle International Airport—Just spent 20 minutes being physically searched at Seattle airport, body searched, and at one point being spoken to and surrounded by seven — yes seven — TSA agents while being informed my backpack had bomb…

  • Mixed race and proud: LA’s multi-heritage kids navigate their identity 89.3 KPCC Southern California Public Radio Pasadena, California 2017-01-15 Deepa Fernandes Soleil Simone Haight loves saying all three of her names, running them together with sheer glee in her voice. She also proudly declares that she is five years old, that she has curly hair…