Category: Family/Parenting

  • Rescuing Discarded Images of Everyday Black Life The New York Times 2015-10-20 David Gonzalez, Side Street Columnist Who throws away family photos? How do faded, blurry squares that chronicled weddings, ballgames and goofy moments at home end up abandoned, tossed to the curb or in boxes bought sight unseen at storage auctions? Zun Lee has…

  • Defying the Stereotype of the Broken Black Family The New Yorker 2015-10-12 Lucy McKeon For his series “Father Figure,” begun in 2011, the photographer Zun Lee created quiet and tender portraits of black fathers with their children: one kisses the tiny hand of his baby while riding the subway; another goofs around at bedtime, his…

  • Counseling the Multiracial Population: Couples, Individuals, and Families Microtraining Associates 2003 01:15:00 Kelley Kenney Mark Kenney This film presents the worldview experiences of interracial couples, multiracial individuals, and multiracial families including trans-racial adoptive families. It also makes clear suggestions for action in the interview. Six live demonstrations showcase typical issues such as concerns and challenges…

  • Multiethnic Adults Grapple With Questions of Identity KQED News San Francisco, California 2015-10-14 Adizah Eghan In his 1964 Nobel Prize lecture, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. described humanity as a “world house,” filled with family of all backgrounds who must somehow learn to live with each other. Within the borders of our countries, cities…

  • Bill de Blasio, Chirlane McCray are now empty nesters as daughter goes to college The New York Daily News 2015-09-17 Jennifer Fermino, City Hall Bureau Chief Chiara de Blasio, seen here with her mom, First Lady Chirlane McCray, left for college on Thursday. David Wexler/New York Daily News The city’s First Family is officially empty…

  • The anthology, Being Biracial: Where Our Secret Worlds Collide, cites the experiences of twenty-four mixed-race authors and those in interracial partnerships of all ages and backgrounds, from all over the world.

  • Multiracial kids will soon have a more colorful toy set for pretend play The Chicago Tribune 2015-09-23 Sadé Carpenter The MyFamilyBuilders toy set includes 48 magnetic wooden pieces that snap together. (MyFamilyBuilders) When Ez Karpf went shopping for a gift for his friends’ children, he thought it would be easy to find a toy set…

  • Raising a Biracial Child as a Mother of Color The Atlantic 2015-09-19 Lara N. Dotson-Renta A mother’s reflection on her own childhood and that of her biracial child—and the inevitable differences of the two. A few months ago, I was walking home from the bus stop with my eldest daughter during the last week of…

  • Raising Mixed Kids: Family Workshop with Sharon Chang Hapa-palooza Festival 2015 Heartwood Community Cafe 317 E. Broadway Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Saturday, 2015-09-19, 18:00-20:00 PDT (Local Time) Sharon H. Chang, author, scholar, sociologist and activist Multiracial Asian Families How do we have transformative race conversations with multi-racial children when most grownups aren’t even able to…

  • All Mixed Up: examining mixed children and unions The Source Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Volume 16, Issue 5 (September 8-22, 2015) Florence Hwang Sharon Chang says she embodies “mixedness.” Chang’s thoughtful examination about growing up multiracial at this year’s Hapapalooza festival: “Raising Mixed Kids: Family Workshop” will be at the Heartwood Community Café, Sept. 19…