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  • Academia hasn’t “radicalized” me, it’s woken me up.

    Academia hasn’t “radicalized” me, it’s woken me up. Andrew Joseph Pegoda, A.B.D. 2015-11-25 Andrew Joseph Pegoda Society regularly miss-labels academics “radicals in the ivory tower,” especially those who work in the Liberal Arts, as they tend to be very aware of everyday culture and life. This wrath from society targets people, regardless of degrees or…

  • Call for Papers: Negotiating Identities: Mixed-Race Individuals in China, Japan, and Korea

    Call for Papers: Negotiating Identities: Mixed-Race Individuals in China, Japan, and Korea University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies 2130 Fulton Street San Francisco, California 2015-07-09 Negotiating Identities: Mixed-Race Individuals in China, Japan, and Korea, April 14-15, 2016 The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies is pleased to announce the…

  • NASA Mathematician Receives Medal of Freedom

    NASA Mathematician Receives Medal of Freedom NBC News 2015-11-25 Katherine G. Johnson calculated the flight path for the first American mission to space. The 97-year-old was one of 17 Americans who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom Tuesday.

  • President Obama Names Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom

    President Obama Names Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom Office of the Press Secretary The White House Washington, D.C. 2015-11-16 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Barack Obama named seventeen recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the Nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially…

  • Nobody Discussed It: Lacey Schwartz and “Little White Lie”

    Nobody Discussed It: Lacey Schwartz and “Little White Lie” Radio Curious Public Radio Exchange (PRX) 2015-05-11 Barry Vogel, Producer Ukiah, California The secret revealed in the life of Lacey Schwartz, born in 1987 to a white Jewish family in rural upstate New York, where she grew up, is that her biological father was black. The…

  • You may not know it — but if you speak Spanish, you speak some Arabic too

    You may not know it — but if you speak Spanish, you speak some Arabic too PRI’s The World Public Radio International 2015-10-15 Joy Diaz, Reporter Rihab Massif, originally from Lebanon, was my daughter’s preschool teacher in Austin. As a little girl, Camila, my daughter, spoke mostly in Spanish. And Massif remembers a day when…

  • What Woodrow Wilson Cost My Grandfather

    What Woodrow Wilson Cost My Grandfather The New York Times 2015-11-25 Gordon J. Davis, Partner Venable, LLP,  New York, New York John Abraham Davis, center, and his family at their farm in the early 1900s. Credit Courtesy of the Davis Family OVER the last week, a growing number of students at Princeton have demanded that…

  • When society sees my mixed race children as merely “a lighter shade of black”, it does them a disservice

    When society sees my mixed race children as merely “a lighter shade of black”, it does them a disservice The Independent 2015-11-24 Dawn Jarvis My daughter says to me, “Nobody has ever said to me ‘Do you feel white?” I am a divorced black woman with two mixed race children. Do I want my mixed…

  • On Taye Diggs and Reckoning with the Changing Realities of Race in America

    On Taye Diggs and Reckoning with the Changing Realities of Race in America For Harriet 2015-11-24 Shannon Luders-Manuel My father was a proud paralegal for the NAACP back in the 80s and 90s. He marched in rallies for race equality and was actively involved in uplifting the Black community. When I was growing up, he…

  • The History of Race in America Is Not Black and White

    The History of Race in America Is Not Black and White History News Network 2015-11-21 Dianne Guenin-Lelle Dr. Dianne Guenin-Lelle teaches French at Albion College. A specialist in Seventeenth Century French Narrative, Francophone Louisiana and Multicultural Pedagogies, she has published numerous articles and two books, Jeanne Guyon, Selected Writings in the Classics in Western Spirituality…