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  • The Future of Multiracial Identity with Sylvia Targ (Palo Alto High School ’16)

    The Future of Multiracial Identity with Sylvia Targ (Palo Alto High School ’16) TEDxYouth 2014-04-19 Sylvia Targ (Palo Alto High School ’16) discusses biracial identity and revolutionary ideas regarding how we view ourselves and others. Sylvia is an avid intern at Stanford Behavioral Sciences & Psychology. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is…

  • Barack Obama’s Warning to People of Mixed Heritage

    Barack Obama’s Warning to People of Mixed Heritage Eighth Generation 2014-01-22 Louie Gong Back in April 2005, a group of mixed people sponsored by the nonprofit MAVIN had the golden opportunity to sit down with the then-Senator Obama. The conversation, filmed as part of the feature length documentary “Chasing Daybreak,” may be the only interview…

  • Seminar on Mixed Race in Fiji: The Part Indian Fijians

    Seminar on Mixed Race in Fiji: The Part Indian Fijians 2014-04-05 Rolando Cocom School of Social Science The University of the South Pacific This is a research design of an explorative study to be conducted in Fiji on ‘mixed race’ persons of iTaukei and Indo-Fijian parentage. The study seeks to render an interpretive understanding of…

  • Stephen Colbert Is Confused About G. K. Butterfield’s Race In Latest ‘Better Know A District’

    Stephen Colbert Is Confused About G. K. Butterfield’s Race In Latest ‘Better Know A District’ The Huffington Post 2014-03-25 Carol Hartsell, Senior Comedy Editor Stephen Colbert unveiled a new edition of “Better Know A District” on Monday’s show, and it was chock-full of racial misunderstandings, confusing questions and barbecue taste tests… like all of his…

  • ‘Chinese, on the Inside’

    ‘Chinese, on the Inside’ The New York Times 2014-03-03 Liz Mak, writer and multimedia producer Oakland, California Catie and Kimberly were adopted from China by a couple from Maine, who attempt to pass on a culture they’ve never known firsthand. About a decade ago, Barbara Cough adopted two girls from China, Kimberly and Catie. Barbara…

  • News Nation with Tamron Hall (with guest Yaba Blay)

    News Nation with Tamron Hall (with guest Yaba Blay) News Nation with Tamron Hall 2014-02-25 Drexel University Professor Yaba Blay discusses her new book (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race with host Tamron Hall. Watch the interview here.

  • Breath of Freedom

    Breath of Freedom The Smithsonian Channel Premieres Monday, 2014-02-17 20:00 EST Narrated by Cuba Gooding Jr. They fought to liberate Germany from Nazi rule, as racism reached unfathomable levels. Their fight would continue back home on American soil. This is the story of the one-million-plus African Americans who fought in World War II. Discover their…

  • Afro-Vietnamese Orphans Tell Their Stories in ‘Indochina: Traces of a Mother’

    Afro-Vietnamese Orphans Tell Their Stories in ‘Indochina: Traces of a Mother’ Black Film Center/Archive Indiana University, Bloomington 2012-04-25 A new(er) documentary film by Idrissou Mora-Kpai follows the stories of Afro-Vietnamese orphans born of Vietnamese mothers and West African fathers – tirailleurs sénégalais – brought by the French to fight la sale guerre, mostly in today’s…

  • The Stuart Hall Project (Washington premiere)

    The Stuart Hall Project (Washington premiere) The National Gallery of Art East Building Auditorium Between 3rd and 9th Streets, N.W. along Constitution Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 2014-01-19, 16:30 EST (Local Time) The celebrated Jamaican-born sociologist and theorist Stuart Hall (b. 1932) is the founding father of cultural studies — the popular interdisciplinary field that has…

  • MOsley WOtta

    MOsley WOtta Oregon Art Beat Oregon Public Broadcasting Aired: 2013-05-30 Length: 00:08:24 MOsley WOtta is a sly play-on-words meant to remind us that we are all “mostly water.” This inclusive, hip-hop reminder helps Bend-based man-behind-the-artist Jason Graham find family wherever he goes and to share his danceable message of peace and mutual support.