Category: United States

  • Black Indians Heritage Feature – Hot Ticket Cox 11 Hampton Roads Local Television Channel 2014-02-20 This special feature in honor of Black History Month provides insight into the high percentage of local African Americans that also have Native American heritage.

  • “Obama, Post-Racialism and the New American Dilemma,” a lecture by Dr. Zebulon Vance Miletsky Frank Melville, Jr. Memorial Library 2nd Floor, E-2340 (Special Collections Seminar Room) Stony Brook University Stony Brook, New York 11794 2017-02-13, 14:00-15:00 EST (Local Time) Zebulon Vance Miletsky, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Stony Brook University The election of Barack Obama…

  • ‘To be black doesn’t have to mean anything more than what I already am’ The Philadelphia Inquirer 2016-02-06 Sofiya Ballin, Staff Writer Sonia Galiber, Director of Operations at Urban Creators Michael Bryant For Black History Month, we’re exploring history and identity through the lens of joy. Black joy is the ability to love and celebrate…

  • 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…

  • What the #ThankYouLovings campaign gets wrong about interracial couples and the future of America Fusion 2016-12-09 Tahirah Hairston FOCUS FEATURES Last month, Loving, a biopic about Mildred and Richard Loving—the couple at the center of the Supreme Court’s Loving v. Virginia decision which struck down bans on interracial marriage in 1967—was released nationwide. June 12th,…

  • 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…