Category: Media Archive

  • How and why did they do it? Harriet Beecher Stowe House 2950 Gilbert Avenue Cincinnati, Ohio 45206 Sunday, 2016-02-28, 13:00 EST (Local Time) Between the the 18th and mid-20th centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and communities. Allyson Hobbs, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of History, Stanford University, will…

  • Soledad O’Brien on #OscarsSoWhite: Why Did It Take So Long to Have This Discussion? The Hollywood Reporter 2016-01-28 Soledad O’Brien, Founder and CEO Starfish Media Group Soledad O’Brien Getty Images In my experience, diversity doesn’t just “happen.” It has to be very intentional. People have to have a genuine desire to make a change. It’s…

  • Shortly after a dismembered torso was discovered by a pond outside Philadelphia in 1887, investigators homed in on two suspects: Hannah Mary Tabbs, a married, working-class, black woman, and George Wilson, a former neighbor whom Tabbs implicated after her arrest. As details surrounding the shocking case emerged, both the crime and ensuing trial-which spanned several…

  • Chirlane McCray and the Limits of First-Ladyship The New York Times Magazine 2016-02-09 Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times What two years in Gracie Mansion have meant for a woman who aspired to be the “voice for the forgotten voices.”…

  • Multiracialism in the U.K., on being a mixed-race feminist, and the interplay of African and Afro-Caribbean culture, with Nicola Codner, Ep. 52 Multiracial Family Man 2015-02-14 Alex Barnett, Host Nicola Codner, Founder and Creator Mixed Race Feminist Blog Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom Ep. 52: Nicola Codner is a multiracial woman (Black Jamaican, Nigerian and White…

  • Invisible Bridges: Life Along the Chinese-Russian Border The New Yorker 2016-02-09 Peter Hessler In the summer of 2014, Davide Monteleone, an Italian photographer who had lived in Moscow for more than a decade, began to travel to the Russian-Chinese border in search of something that felt real and reliable. “I had been covering the uprising…

  • Bill Clinton downplays Obama: ‘We’re all mixed-race people’ The New York Post 2016-02-14 Aaron Short Bill Clinton still wants to be known as America’s “first black president.” The former president downplayed President Obama’s historic presidency, telling a Memphis crowd Friday everyone has some African ancestry. “Unless your ancestors, every one of you, are 100 percent,…

  • An Interview with Poet and Room Poetry Coordinator Chelene Knight Room: Literature, Art, and Feminism Since 1975 Issue 37.4: Claiming Space (2015) Interview with Bonnie Nish Chelene Knight was born in Vancouver and is a graduate of The Writer’s Studio at SFU. She has been published in Sassafras Literary Magazine, Room, emerge 2013 and Raven…

  • “End the Autocracy of Color”: African Americans and Global Visions of Freedom Imperial & Global Forum (blog of the Centre for Imperial and Global History at the History Department, University of Exeter) 2016-02-15 Keisha N. Blain, Assistant Professor of History University of Iowa John Q. Adams Historically, black men and women in the United States…

  • Black History Month 2016: Three-star General, Lt. General Nadja West Black German Cultural Society 2016-02-05 Congratulations!!! Lt. Gen. Nadja West has been appointed as the Army’s 44th Surgeon General. With this appointment comes a promotion to lieutenant general, which makes West the Army’s first black female 3-star general as well as the highest ranking female…