Category: Videos

  • Do White-Passing People of Color Have Privilege? Everyday Feminism 2015-09-07 Marina Watanabe Today I’m going to be answering a question from one of my Patreon patrons (which sounds really redundant) about being a person of color who happens to be white-passing. Before I start this, I want to explain the concept of white-passing. It basically…

  • New book ‘A Chosen Exile’ WREG-TV Memphis, Tennessee 2015-12-17 For nearly 200 years, countless African-Americans chose to leave their families, friends and communities to live in exile. Allyson Hobbs reveals this piece of history and how it affected race relations in her new book “A Chosen Exile.” Watch the interview here.

  • Chasing Daybreak: A Film About Mixed Race in America University of Michigan Shapiro Undergraduate Library 919 South University Avenue Screening Room 2160 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1185 2016-01-19, 12:00-14:00 CST (Local Time) Karen E Downing, Host Contact This is one of a year-long series of events that explore what it means to be multiracial in a…

  • Watch This Poet Break Down His Afro-Latino Identity Black Youth Project 2015-11-03 Jenn M. Jackson, Managing Editor Gabriel Ramirez’s poem, “On Realizing I Am Black,” performed at the 2015 National Poetry Slam [2015-08-10 to 2015-08-15] in Oakland, CA is an eloquent oration on personhood at the margins. There is nothing more beautiful than authenticity. But, in…

  • Misty Copeland Is Helping To Bring Dance Lessons To Rwandan Kids The Huffington Post 2015-11-25 Rahel Gebreyes, Editor, HuffPost Live The dancer just returned from Kigali, Rwanda, where shared her love of dance with children in the city. Ballerina Misty Copeland has made a name for herself breaking barriers for black dancers in the United…

  • Michael Eric Dyson Discusses His Cover Story on Hillary Clinton The New Republic Minutes 2015-11-27 Mikaela Lefrak, Associate Editor “Obama will probably go down in history as one of the greatest presidents we’ve had. I just don’t think that the issue of race will earn him those kudos.” That’s professor Michael Eric Dyson’s opinion on…

  • NASA Mathematician Receives Medal of Freedom NBC News 2015-11-25 Katherine G. Johnson calculated the flight path for the first American mission to space. The 97-year-old was one of 17 Americans who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom Tuesday.

  • DNA study finds London was ethnically diverse from start BBC News 2015-11-23 Pallab Ghosh, Science Correspondent A DNA study has confirmed that London was an ethnically diverse city from its very beginnings, BBC News has learned. The analysis reveals what some of the very first Londoners looked like and where they came from. The first…

  • Taye Diggs’ ‘mixed’ comments spurs conversation about raising biracial kids PIX 11 (WPIX) New York, New York 2015-11-20 Senior editor of Ebony magazine Jamilah Lemieux, biracial blogger Lisa Rosenberg and biracial filmmaker Lacey Schwartz talk about actor Taye Diggs’ comments about wanting his son to embrace being “mixed.” Watch the video here.

  • Martha S. Jones – “The Children of Loving v. Virginia“ Organization of American Historians September 2015 An OAH Lecture by Martha S. Jones, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan This lecture was presented as part of the Created Equal initiative at Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana, in September 2015. Recorded by the…