Day: November 26, 2014

  • Glenn Chavis: Inquiry helps shed light on mixed-race heritage The News & Record Greensboro, North Carolina 2014-11-25 Glenn Chavis, Community Columnist I recently received a call from a professor emeritus at Jackson State University who is working on a project dealing with a Tri-Racial Isolate group called Turks, who once made Sumter County, S.C., their…

  • Grad student Alex Finley found her roots — and more William & Mary News and Events The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 2014-11-24 Jim Ducibella, Communications Specialist This is part one of a two-story series. Check back Nov. 26 for the second part. – Ed. As a child, Alex Finley remembers going through…

  • Obama failed Ferguson. The prosecutor is pathetic. Between the split-screen, the protesters get it The Guardian London, United Kingdom 2014-11-25 Steven W. Thrasher, Columnist for Guardian US Politicians have found themselves on the wrong side of the gap between the fantasy of what the law does and the reality that people live There we had…

  • The number of multiracial individuals in America, many of whom define their racial identity in different ways, has grown dramatically in recent years and continues to increase. From this demographic shift a movement seeking unique racial status for multiracial individuals has emerged. The multiracial movement is distinguishable from other race-based movements in that it is…

  • Monday Murder Mystery: Everything I Never Told You Daily Kos 2014-11-24 Susan Grisby Everything I Never Told You: A Novel by Celeste Ng; Published by Penguin Press; June 26th 2014. 297 pages Families are probably the most mysterious strangers we will ever know. Sure, we know their names and that one is a brother or…

  • Could you imagine living your entire life not knowing your true ethnic background? Movie director Lacey Schwartz can. Watch her talk about her new film “Little White Lie” and more:

  • Mixed-Race Identity, Ferguson & Why it Matters to Us Mixed In Canada 2014-11-25 Rema Tavares By now you probably already know that Darren Wilson wasn’t indicted yesterday, November 24th, 2014 for murdering unarmed Black youth Mike Brown on August 9th, 2014. Ever since that day, folks around the world have been showing their support, as…

  • In Response to #Ferguson One Drop of Love 2014-11-25 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni I spent yesterday, like so many of my friends and family, wavering between deep sadness and deep anger. I understand that, because I was a witness to a family member being brutalized by a police officer, I have a different perspective than those…