Category: United States

  • The Alternative History of 2013: Alt-Weeklies Year in Review AAN News Association of Alternative Newsmedia 2013-12-19 Jason Zaragoza For our first-ever Alt-Weeklies Year in Review, we asked AAN editors and reporters to share the stories they are the most — and least — proud of from the past year. What follows is an edited version…

  • Melissa Harris-Perry: LGBT Advocates Need Public Progressive Faith Religion Dispatches Sexuality/Gender University of Southern California 2011-05-31 Peter Montgomery, Associate Editor Political scientist Melissa Harris-Perry has developed a devoted following with her appearances on Bill Moyers Journal and Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show, and her insightful commentaries on race, history, politics and culture in The Nation and…

  • “Global Mixed Race,” the 3rd biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, will be held at DePaul University in Chicago November 13-15, 2014. Critical Mixed Race Studies 2013-09-16 Conference Description: Global Mixed Race, the third biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, will be hosted at DePaul University in Chicago, November 13th-15th, 2014. It will bring together…

  • De Blasio Sworn In as New York Mayor The New York Times 2014-01-01 Michael M. Grynbaum Bill de Blasio was sworn in as the 109th mayor of New York City early Wednesday, at two minutes past the stroke of midnight. The oath of office was administered by Eric T. Schneiderman, the attorney general of New…

  • Jolene Ivey on The Rock Newman Show The Rock Newman Show Busboys and Poets Washington, D.C. 2013-10-19 Rock Newman, Host Jolene Ivey, Representative, 47th District, Maryland House of Delegates Also candidate for Maryland Lieutenant Governor Maryland’s House of Delegates member and 2014 Maryland gubernatorial Running Mate, Jolene Ivey visits The Rock Newman Show. Delegate Jolene…

  • Fathers, Farmers, Fighters Leaders: The Robbins Family at War (Civil War Roundtable of the Rock Creek Nature Center) U.S. Park Service Rock Creek Nature Center 5200 Glover Road, NW Washington, D.C. 2014-01-04, 09:30 EST (Local Time) Marvin Jones, Executive Director Chowan Discovery Group The Robbinses lived across racial lines and along the borders of slavery.…

  • Racial identity development of mixed race college students Clemson University 2012 216 pages Helen Diamond Steele The purpose of this study was to identify the factors that influence mixed race college students’ choice of racial identity. This study also explored whether or not there are any differences among each of the racial identity groups’ perceptions…

  • Marylander of the Year: Benjamin Todd Jealous [Editorial] The Baltimore Sun 2013-12-28 Our view: Jealous leaves the NAACP a revitalized and relevant institution that is at the forefront of the social justice struggles of our time In the spring of 2008, as the prospect that America would elect its first black president became more and…

  • Struck by Lightning? Interracial Intimacy and Racial Justice Human Rights Quarterly Volume 25, Number 2, May 2003 pages 528-562 DOI: 10.1353/hrq.2003.0017 Kevin R. Johnson, Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies University of California, Davis Kristina L. Burrows Rachel F. Moran, Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance (Chicago and…

  • The 10 Best Black Books of 2013 (Non-Fiction) The AFRO 2013-12-24 Kam Williams, Special to the AFRO The 10 Best Black Books of 2013 (Non-Fiction) (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race Edited by Yaba Blay, Ph.D. with photography by Noelle Theard Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by…