Category: United States

  • Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry tells the story of this couple and the case that forever changed the law of race and marriage in America.

  • One Drop of Love at the Straz Center Straz Center for the Performing Arts Jaeb Theater 1010 N. W.C. MacInnes Place Tampa, Florida 33602 Saturday, 2014-11-08, 19:30 EST (Local Time) Produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, this extraordinary one-woman show by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni incorporates filmed images, photographs and animation to tell the story…

  • ‘A Chosen Exile,’ by Allyson Hobbs: review San Francisco Chronicle 2014-11-01 Imani Perry, Professor, Center for African American Studies Princeton University Allyson Hobbs, A Chosen Exile: History of Racial Passing in American Life (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014) Family across the color line: It is now a popular enough theme that it qualifies as a…

  • Matthew McConaughey & Gary Ross Mount Civil War Saga; Bob Simonds’ STX In Talks To Finance Deadline Hollywood 2014-11-05 Mike Fleming Jr., Film Editor Anita Busch, Film Editor EXCLUSIVE: Matthew McConaughey and writer-director Gary Ross are the catalysts for a project called Free State Of Jones, which is getting some serious attention from STX Entertainment,…

  • This is the first in a series of interviews with philosophers on race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week’s conversation is with Naomi Zack, a professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon and the author of “The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality After the History of Philosophy.” The interview was…

  • Am I ‘black enough’? Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-10-27 Gene Seymour Editor’s note: Gene Seymour is a film critic who has written about music, movies and culture for The New York Times, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly and The Washington Post. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer. (CNN) — I am…

  • My Children and the Limits of White Privilege Nursing Clio: Because the Personal is Historical 2013-08-28 Danielle J. Swiontek, Assistant Professor of History Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, California Nursing Clio is honored to have Danielle J. Swiontek as our guest author today. Danielle is an Assistant Professor of History at Santa Barbara City…

  • Use of Race and Ethnicity in Public Health Surveillance: Summary of the CDC/ATSDR Workshop United States Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Volume 42, 1993-06-25, Number RR-10 28 pages …Preface This edition of MMWR Recommendations and Reports summarizes a workshop that addresses the role of race and…

  • ‘Dear White People’ or ‘Dear Bougie Black People’? The Boston Globe 2014-11-04 Farah Stockman THIS WEEKEND, I saw the new satirical film “Dear White People.” I was curious what it would tell me about how young people view race today. Each generation plays out the drama of race in the movies. Baby boomers flocked to“Guess…

  • Republican Larry Hogan wins Md. governor’s race in stunning upset The Washington Post 2014-11-05 John Wagner, Maryland Political Reporter Jenna Johnson, Maryland Political Reporter Republican businessman Larry Hogan pulled off a stunning upset in heavily Democratic Maryland on Tuesday, winning the governor’s race against Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown by relentlessly promising to roll back…