Category: Interviews

  • In ‘Black Lotus,’ Author Sil Lai Abrams Explores Search For Racial Identity Here & Now WBUR 90.9 FM, Boston, Massachusetts 2016-08-03 Sil Lai Abrams, author of “Black Lotus: A Woman’s Search for Racial Identity.” (Courtesy of Che Williams) When Sil Lai Abrams was a child, her white father and her Chinese mother explained her dark…

  • Zawe Ashton interview: The actress is moving on from Fresh Meat with a starring role in Channel 4’s comedy drama Not Safe for Work The Independent 2015-06-19 Gillian Orr Multi-talented: Ashton likes to do her own thing Immo Klink Acting, directing, writing: Zawe Ashton is a woman on the move. Gillian Orr tries to keep…

  • Episode 21 w/ Sheila Ruiz, Head of Programmes Blacticulate 2016-03-07 Ade Bamgbala, Host Sheila Ruiz, Head of Programmes, Partnerships and Operations Royal African Society, London, England Sheila Ruiz This was another great episode where Sheila and Mangaliso (her newborn) give great advice on how to create a successful event, the challenges, internship platforms out there…

  • Skin Deep Meets Stella Corradi Skin Deep: Race + Culture London, England, United Kingdom 2016-07-08 Anuradha Henriques, Editor East London writer and director Stella Corradi talks fantasy, addiction and her short film “Little Soldier” Stella Corradi, East London born and bred, is the writer and director behind the short film Little Soldier. Loosely influenced by…

  • More than a coming of age story, Danzy Senna’s first novel, “Caucasia” (Riverhead Books, 1998) addresses themes of coming into consciousness within the U.S. ethnoracial landscape. Clearly in dialogue with Nella Larsen’s “Passing” as well as Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” “Caucasia” is a first person narrative where anything that happens to the protagonist, Birdie Lee,…

  • The Complexities of Skin Color Black Issues Forum UNC-TV Raleigh, North Carolina 2016-05-01 Running Time: 00:26:46 Deborah Holt Noel, Host Inspired by the casting of Latina actress Zoe Saldana to play Nina Simone, the performer and activist known for her pride in her dark skin, Deborah chats with professor Dr. Yaba Blay, filmmaker Eric Barstow,…

  • Meet Anthony Ocampo, the Professor Who Wrote a Book on Why Latinos and Filipinos are Primos Remezcla 2016-07-12 Kevin Nadal Anthony Ocampo As one of the few Filipino American psychology professors in the US, it can get lonely. I am the only Filipino American professor on my campus and one of the few tenured Filipino…

  • An interview with Victoria Bynum, historian and author of The Free State of Jones—Part 1 World Socialist Web Site 2016-07-12 David Walsh and Joanne Laurier Victoria Bynum Free State of Jones, the film directed by Gary Ross, powerfully and movingly recounts a significant episode of the American Civil War, the insurrection against the Confederacy led…

  • Is there a racial ‘care gap’ in medical treatment? PBS News Hour 2016-04-05 A new survey has found implicit biases in medical students that may explain why black patients are sometimes undertreated for pain, with some students believing that black people feel less pain and have thicker skin than white people. For more on the…

  • Q&A with ‘Indian Blood’ author Andrew J. Jolivette University of Washington Press Blog 2016-06-24 In his new book Indian Blood: HIV & Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community, Andrew J. Jolivette examines the correlation between mixed-race identity and HIV/AIDS among Native American gay men and transgendered people, and provides an analysis of the emerging…