Day: July 23, 2014

  • Little White Lie OTB Productions LLC 2013 66 minutes Lacey Schwartz, Producer/Director Mehret Mandefro, Producer James Adolphus, Co-Director What defines our identity, our family of origin or the family that raises us? How do we come to terms with the sins and mistakes of our parents? Lacey discovers that answering those questions means understanding her…

  • Black American Indians seek to honor their mixed ancestry Al Jazeera America 2014-07-22 Naureen Khan WASHINGTON — The soaring sound of “Wade in the Water,” a Negro spiritual once said to be used on the Underground Railroad, filled Plymouth Congressional United Church of Christ Saturday morning. But on this particular Saturday, church-goers offered their respects…

  • Not So Black and White Tree Spirit Publishing 2012 210 pages 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-0615568249 Alexis Wilson Mixed marriage, abandonment, a mother’s secret, same sex parents, Broadway, the Ballet, and AIDS all make up a multi-colored tapestry of this author’s valiant journey towards a strong and clear passage; leaving the…

  • How Turbans Helped Some Blacks Go Incognito In The Jim Crow Era Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-07-19 Tanvi Misra There’s a weekly trial on the Internet about who may be stealing culture from whom. Earlier this week, the defendants were Iggy Azalea and white gay men. A while…