Day: January 3, 2014

  • Celebrating Afro-Venezuelan Heritage Global Exchange Reality Tour Blog 2013-12-13 The following post is written by Reality Tours communications intern William Jones Jr as he explores Afro-Venezuelan identity historically and in its current context. Visit Venezuela on a Reality Tour to learn more about the struggles, contributions, and successes of Afro-Venezuelans. History and Legacy Under the…

  • Ellisville, Miss.—(AP)—A young veteran who served in the navy as a white man and later married a white woman has been convicted of miscegenation and sentenced to five years in prison.

  • Professor shifts the lens on race through portraiture, new book FIU News Florida International University 2014-01-02 Evelyn Perez What is blackness? What does it mean to be black? Is blackness a matter of biology or consciousness? Who and what determine who is black and who is not? A new book by Yaba Blay, co-director of…

  • DNA Double Take The New York Times 2013-09-16 Carl Zimmer From biology class to “C.S.I.,” we are told again and again that our genome is at the heart of our identity. Read the sequences in the chromosomes of a single cell, and learn everything about a person’s genetic information — or, as 23andme, a prominent…

  • The Alternative History of 2013: Alt-Weeklies Year in Review AAN News Association of Alternative Newsmedia 2013-12-19 Jason Zaragoza For our first-ever Alt-Weeklies Year in Review, we asked AAN editors and reporters to share the stories they are the most — and least — proud of from the past year. What follows is an edited version…