Category: Media Archive

  • Lenny Kravitz’s Halfway Mark The New York Times 2013-12-06 Amy Chozick, National Political Reporter You grew up between the Upper East Side and Bed-Stuy. Which neighborhood did you feel more comfortable in? Well, after I was in first grade, Monday through Friday was Upper East Side going to P.S. 6, and Friday night through Sunday…

  • Passing for white and straight: How my looks hide my identity Salon 2013-12-08 Koa Beck Brooklyn, New York I’m neither straight nor white, but I’m frequently mistaken for both — and it’s taught me a lot about privilege I first became aware of my passing as a young child confronted with standardized testing. My second…

  • Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: “The Democratization of Beauty?: Skin Bleaching, Skin Bronzing and the Global Market in Color Enhancement” University of California, Merced California Room 5200 North Lake Rd. Merced, California 95343 2013-12-12, 10:30 PST (Local Time) France Winddance Twine, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara The seminar series “Race and…

  • Loving v. Virginia as a Civil Rights Decision Cosponsored by the Center for African American Studies and the Program in Law and Public Affairs 102 Jones Hall Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey Monday, 2013-12-09, 12:00-13:20 EST (Local Time) Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner…

  • Prince George’s Political Duo, Jolene and Glenn Ivey Focus on Family AFRO Prince George’s County News 2013-10-16 Zenitha Prince, Special to the AFRO He’s a former two-term state’s attorney for Prince George’s County who is now a partner in the prestigious K Street law firm of Leftwich & Ludaway. She’s the chairman of the Prince…

  • In Japan, Will Hafu Ever Be Considered Whole? The Diplomat Tokyo, Japan 2013-10-03 J.T. Quigley, Assistant Editor Mixed-race individuals and their families seek acceptance in a homogeneous Japan. “Spain! Spain!” the boys shouted at her and her brother, day in and day out at a summer camp in Chiba prefecture. The incessant chanting eventually turned…

  • Obama’s Path Was Shaped by Mandela’s Story The New York Times 2013-12-05 Michael D. Shear WASHINGTON — Without Nelson Mandela, there might never have been a President Obama. That is the strong impression conveyed from Mr. Obama, whose political and personal bonds to Mr. Mandela, the former South African president, transcended their single face-to-face meeting,…

  • Ivey describes herself as ‘Trayvon Martin’s mom’ The Baltimore Sun 2013-10-14 Erin Cox (Lloyd Fox / Baltimore Sun) Gansler’s running mate is first African-American woman to seek lieutenant governor post After Del. Jolene Ivey told a Baltimore crowd she hopes to be Maryland’s first African-American female lieutenant governor, she discussed what it means to be…

  • United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey (b. 1966) describes her mode as elegiac. Although the loss of her murdered mother informs each book, Trethewey’s range of forms and subjects is wide.

  • Louisiana Creole Literature: A Historical Study University Press of Mississippi 2013-10-17 256 pages 6 x 9 inches, bibliography, index Hardback ISBN: 9781617039102 Catharine Savage Brosman, Professor Emerita of French Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Louisiana Creole Literature is a broad-ranging critical reading of belles lettres—in both French and English—connected to and generally produced by the…