Category: Autobiography

  • Q&A with Dorothy Roberts Penn Current: News, ideas and conversations from the University of Pennsylvania 2014-10-16 Greg Johnson, Managing Editor When Dorothy Roberts was 3 months old, she moved with her parents from Chicago to Liberia, where her mother, Iris, had worked as a young woman after leaving Jamaica. It was the first of Dorothy’s…

  • To Tell the Truth: Alumna’s new film about family secrets to show at Boston film festival (video) Harvard Law Today Alumni Focus 2014-11-12 Lewis Rice Lacey Schwartz ’03 will return to Cambridge this weekend to speak about her new documentary “Little White Lie,” showing Saturday Nov. 15 and 17 as part of the Boston Jewish…

  • ‘What are you, anyway?’: Why I loved growing up in a mixed-race family The Digital Universe Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 2014-11-01 Angela Marler When I was a kid it was completely normal for me to spend one weekend with my mom’s side of the family, roasting a goat in a pit in the driveway,…

  • ONExSAMENESS: Dr Anita Heiss at TEDxBrisbane TEDx Talks 2013-10-25 Anita Heiss “It’s and I-dentity, not a YOU-dentity, stop telling me who I am!” Anita is a contemporary Australian author. She is a Wiradjuri woman. She is an Indigenous Literacy Day Ambassador and an Adjunct Professor with Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, UTS amongst many other…

  • On The Cusp of Dual Identities #Dispatch: Afropean Everywhere All The Time 2014-11-10 Bani Amor Johny Pitts is a writer, photographer, and broadcast journalist interested in issues of Afro-European identity. He won a Decibel Penguin Prize for a short story included in the ‘The Map of Me’; a Penguin books anthology about mixed-race identity. He…

  • Growing Up “Too Black” In Trinidad The New Local: Think Global, Read Local 2014-11-10 Malaika Crichlow Miami, Florida I grew up in Trinidad in the 80s and 90s as a black girl child. To be black in a country that idealizes the curly hair and mixed ethnicity aesthetic is rough to say the least. Although…

  • The Skin I’m In – At the Korean Sauna Ms. Food Queen: Cooking Across Difference November 2014 Christine Gregory I am lying naked on a padded linoleum table while a heavyset Korean ajumma (middle aged woman) scrubs every inch of my body.  I catch a glimpse of the tiny rolls of dead skin left behind…

  • “Legacy” is the true story of the Olorunda family’s struggle against racism and poverty during the Northern Ireland Troubles. In January 1980, Max Olorunda was killed by the IRA in a bomb attack. He left behind a wife and three small children. Legacy is the poignant story of what became of his family after his…

  • A rare glimpse into the thoughts and experiences of a free black American woman in the nineteenth century

  • 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…