Day: September 22, 2014

  • One Drop of Love: A Must See Show A Life with Subtitles 2014-09-22 Sarah Quezada Last week I was out of town bowling and doing improv with my co-workers. It was super fun, but my time away from Atlanta meant I was gone on the birthday of my dear friend, Katie. (You may remember her…

  • Here’s Why Louis CK’s Kids Are White But Their Mother Is Black In ‘Louie’ Business Insider 2014-09-18 Aly Weisman, Senior Editor There’s one mystery on FX show “Louie” that has never really been addressed. While Louie’s ex-wife “Janet” is played by black, Jamaican actress Susan Kelechi Watson, his two daughters are very white, very blonde…

  • No American city’s history better illustrates both the possibilities for alternative racial models and the role of the law in shaping racial identity than New Orleans, Louisiana, which prior to the Civil War was home to America’s most privileged community of people of African descent. In the eyes of the law, New Orleans’s free people…

  • Elizabeth Liang finds home: Performance at Williams College ’62 Center The Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield, Massachusetts 2014-09-17 Madeline Vuong, Special to Berkshires Week & Shires of Vermont WILLIAMSTOWN — “Where are you from?” It’s an easy question on the surface, but a more complicated matter if you’re Elizabeth Liang, a child of mixed-race parentage, who grew…

  • Number of multiracial students on rapid rise The Korean Times 2014-09-21 Kim Se-jeong The number of elementary, middle and high school students from multiracial families soared to a record high of 67,806 as of April, the Ministry of Education said Sunday. That accounted for 1.07 percent of the 6.33 million total and is the first…

  • Poverty, environment helped set Toledo teens on path to murder The Toledo Blade Toledo, Ohio 2014-09-21 Roneisha Mullen, Staff Writer Rose Russell, Staff Writer First of two parts By the time Shamus Groom was 11 years old, he was already drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana. At 14, he saw a gun for the first time,…