Category: Autobiography

  • Mixed race and mixed reactions Columbia Daily Spectator 2016-10-17 Laura Salgado “But, like, what are you?” It’s a question I’m asked pretty often, both inside and outside of Morningside Heights. You’d think that after almost two decades on this planet I’d finally be able to answer it easily, but you’d be wrong. This seemingly innocent…

  • Last time I worshipped in a synagogue was Sept. 5, 2014. And I won’t be going today. That might surprise my friends, who put up with my bragging ad nauseam about how Jewish I am.

  • Author Gerald Horne talked about his life and career and responded to viewer comments and questions. His most recent book is “Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary.”

  • FOR the first time during Black History Month, an exhibition celebrating mixed race Irish has gone on display in the London Irish Centre.

  • One Drop of Love is Headed to Broadway! Theater Row 410 West 42nd Street (between 9th and 10th Avenues) New York, New York 10036 Thursday, 2016-10-13, 19:30 EDT (Local Time) Sold Out! Sunday, 2016-10-16, 14:00 EDT (Local Time) How does our belief in ‘race’ affect our most intimate relationships? One Drop of Love travels near…

  • Why Self-Identifying As Multiracial Is Still New And Not Automatic For Me Swirl Nation Blog 2016-10-12 Sarah Ratliff I grew up in New York City during the 1960s and 70s. Although I grew up in a very racially, ethnically and culturally diverse area—which included several interracial families—it wasn’t the norm to raise kids in that…

  • Dr. Zebulon Miletsky discusses his journey through the multiple worlds of race and identity as he shares his experiences with researching his own family genealogy, the various “routes” this process led him to and how “tracing your routes” can lead to more than just knowledge about your background–it’s about how we treat one another along…

  • Weird things come with being mixed-race. These include, but are not limited to: no one ever guessing your heritage correctly, random stereotypes you wouldn’t expect, a fusion of your parents’ cultures, and questions of “Wait, where did your parents meet?”

  • ‘We were the unspoken story of Ireland’ BBC News 2016-10-13 The #IamIrish exhibition in north London explores what it means to be mixed race and Irish. Watch the video (00:02:21) here.

  • I Loved My Bigoted Uncle, and He Loved Us The Daily Beast 2016-10-09 Goldie Taylor, Editor-at-Large My late Uncle Buster, a barrel-chested white man raised in the woody bowels of Louisiana and a self-professed bigot, opened his life, his home and his heart to me. Wendell “Buster” Carson was ours by marriage but, even as…