Category: Interviews

  • In an exclusive interview, Rachel Dolezal discusses growing up on a Christian homestead, painting her face different colors as a child, and why she’s naming her new baby after Langston Hughes.

  • While the nation’s multiracial population is growing – does that make our culture more understanding of issues of diversity?

  • Kansas City Artist Shane Evans, Co-Author Taye Diggs Demystify Mixed-Race Families In New Book KCUR 89.3 Kansas City, Missouri 2015-12-04 Laura Ziegler, Special Correspondent Shane Evans at KCUR studios to talk about illustrating new children’s book (Laura Ziegler KCUR) Kansas City artist Shane Evans was raised by a mother and father whose racial and cultural…

  • Parents (of multiracial kids) Just Don’t Understand AsAmNews 2015-12-03 Alice Wong Talking about race is complicated enough but how do parents of multiracial Asian American children talk to their kids about race and racial identity? What are the experiences of multiracial Asian American children? What’s missing in the media representations of multiracial kids? Writer, scholar…

  • Intersection Episode 10: Being Melissa Harris-Perry Is a Full-Time Job The New Republic Intersection with Jamil Smith 2015-12-01 Jamil Smith, Senior Editor and Host Professor, feminist, TV host, activist, mom, rabid hip-hop fan. Melissa Harris-Perry works seven days a week balancing all her identities, and she isn’t stopping anytime soon. Besides hosting her eponymous MSNBC…

  • ‘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,…

  • Pop Culture Happy Hour: A Conversation With Trevor Noah Monkey See: Pop-Culture News And Analysis From NPR National Public Radio 2015-11-27 Linda Holmes, Host Monkey See Blog Linda Holmes and Trevor Noah talk during NPR’s Weekend In Washington event on October 31. (Paul Morigi/AP Images for NPR) It’s Thanksgiving week, and Team PCHH [Pop Culture…

  • Hapa-Palooza 2015 | Talking Hapa With Canadian Broadcaster Margaret Gallager Schema Magazine 2015-09-17 Marissa Willcox Hapa-palooza is here! Celebrating what Vancouver does best: mixed-heritage and blended cultural identities. Drawing from the Hawaiian origin of the word “hapa” (used by many people in Canada and U.S. who identify as being of mixed-heritage) Vancouver is a perfect…

  • President Obama & Marilynne Robinson: A Conversation in Iowa The New York Review of Books 2015-11-05 President Barack Obama Marilynne Robinson President Obama and Marilynne Robinson at the Iowa State Library, Des Moines, September 2015 (Pete Souza/White House) The following conversation between President Obama and Marilynne Robinson was conducted in Des Moines, Iowa, on September…

  • In February, Latina magazine listed “6 Afro-Latinas Who Are Changing the World.” Naturally, Miriam Jiménez Román was second on the list.