Category: Media Archive

  • Thank you for choosing to bring your students to the Wilma’s production of An Octoroon, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. I applaud your willingness to take a risk on this one. While on some level we all understand that the most extraordinary learning opportunities emerge when we venture outside our comfort zone, most of us still gravitate…

  • The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts by Amber D. Moulton (review) The Journal of the Civil War Era Volume 6, Number 4, December 2016 pages 594-596 DOI: 10.1353/cwe.2016.0075 Tamika Y. Nunley, Assistant Professor of History Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts. By Amber D. Moulton.…

  • Know It by Heart Northwestern University Press June 2003 256 pages 5.5 x 8.5 Trade Paper ISBN: 978-1-880684-95-5 Karl Luntta, Director of Media Relations The State University of New York, Albany When a racially mixed family moves into an all-white neighborhood in East Hartford, Connecticut, in 1961, lives are altered forever. Karl Luntta’s Know It by…

  • Selected Plays Northwestern University Press April 2011 272 pages 6 x 9 Trade Paper ISBN: 978-0-8101-2751-7 Alice Childress (1916—1994) Edited by: Kathy A. Perkins, Professor of Theatre University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill As the first African American woman to have a play professionally produced in New York City (Gold Through the Trees, in 1952)…

  • Black Semitic Girl Reader At The Airport Medium 2017-02-07, 21:00 PST (Local Time) Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Theoretical Astro|Physicist Where books become bombs Seattle International Airport—Just spent 20 minutes being physically searched at Seattle airport, body searched, and at one point being spoken to and surrounded by seven — yes seven — TSA agents while being informed my backpack had bomb…

  • Mixed race and proud: LA’s multi-heritage kids navigate their identity 89.3 KPCC Southern California Public Radio Pasadena, California 2017-01-15 Deepa Fernandes Soleil Simone Haight loves saying all three of her names, running them together with sheer glee in her voice. She also proudly declares that she is five years old, that she has curly hair…

  • Lt. Stephen Atkins Swails Kingstree News Kingstree, South Carolina 2017-02-07 Cassandra Williams Rush, Special to The News Lt. Stephen Atkins Swails Photo by Ronald Walton Lt. Stephen Atkins Swails, an attorney, a member of the Electoral College, a member of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, was the Mayor of Kingstree. He was born February 23, 1832…

  • Leyton playwright Lynette Linton’s play #Hashtag Lightie will be running at Arcola Theatre in Dalston Wimbledon Guardian 2017-01-23 Rachel Russell What does it mean to be mixed race in this day and age? That is the question being posed by Leyton writer Lynette Linton in her new play #Hashtag Lightie at the Arcola Theatre, in…

  • African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman Southern Spaces: A Journal about Real and Imagined Spaces and Places of the US South and their Global Connections 2004-03-16 DOI: 10.18737/M7XP4B Carole Merritt Portrait of Adrienne Herndon, date unknown. (c) The Herndon Home. Overview  Ahead of her time and outside of her assigned place, Adrienne…

  • It’s February, and that means it’s Black History Month! Check out these four queer Black Canadian women authors whose books you should definitely have on your shelves.