Category: United States

  • Homeland Tour for Biracial Adoptees KoreAm 2015-03-09 Katherine Kim Dawn Tomlinson photographs by Denis Jeong International adoption began in South Korea in 1953, as thousands of Korean children were left parentless and/or homeless by the Korean War, while many others were born to Korean women and fathered by American GIs or soldiers from one of…

  • Old Glory: The Symbol of One America 1696 Heritage Group 2015-03-16 Keith Stokes, Vice President Richard Gill Forrester, c. 1850 The photograph taken in 1850 during the earliest years of a new-fangled technology called photography, captures a well-dressed, handsome five year old boy named Richard Gill Forrester, of antebellum Richmond, Virginia. Just as the photograph…

  • Hispanic Journalists To Survey Race In Spanish-Language TV After Univision Incident The Huffington Post 2015-03-17 Roque Planas Carolina Moreno The National Hispanic Journalists Association applauded Univision’s decision to fire host Rodner Figueroa, after he compared first lady Michelle Obama to a character from “Planet of the Apes” during a segment of “El Gordo Y La…

  • A reconsideration of the role of self-identified races in epidemiology and biomedical research Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Available online: 2015-03-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.02.004 Ludovica Lorusso Department of Political Science, Communication, Engineering and Information Technologies University of Sassari, Italy Department of Philosophy…

  • ‘Kiss me, I’m Irish’ took on a new meaning when DNA proved that I was The Guardian 2015-03-17 Michael W. Twitty New tests confirmed what my family had long known: our ancestors were children of their Irish-American slaveholders Like many African Americans, I was excited by the possibility of using DNA tests to learn about…

  • Two decades later, the Midwestern independent hip-hop label is still going strong.

  • Allan Wolper Talks to Lacey Schwartz Conversations with Allan Wolper WBGO 88.3 FM Newark, New Jersey 2015-03-16 Allan Wolper, Professor of Journalism Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, Newark Lacey Schwartz has written, produced and directed a documentary, Little White Lie, detailing how she grew up as a white, Jewish girl in Woodstock,…

  • Millennials Are More Racist Than They Think Politico Magazine 2015-03-09 Sean McElwee Just Look at the Numbers News about race in America these days is almost universally negative. Longstanding wealth, income and employment gaps between whites and people of color are increasing, and tensions between police and minority communities around the country are on the…

  • This Passover Choose Judaism My Jewish Learning Be’chol Lashon 2015-03-10 Alex Barnett My wife and I are an interracial couple. I am a White, Ashkenazi Jewish man from New York. She is a Black woman from Detroit, raised in the Lutheran faith, who converted (to Jewish, not to White. She’s still Black). Our 3 year…

  • Daughter Discovers Father’s Black Lineage National Public Radio 2007-10-02 Farai Chideya, Host Famed literary critic Anatole Broyard carried a big secret most of his life. He was a black man passing as white. His daughter, Bliss Broyard, writes about how she learned of her father’s hidden life and explored her black ancestry in the memoir…