Month: September 2015

  • The Roanes of Virginia: 2 families with the same surname. Are they related or not? Genealogy Adventures 2015-09-20 Brian Sheffey What could possible be confusing about two immigrant families coming from the same region in Europe and landing in the US around the same time? When it comes to pre-Revolutionary War Era Roane family…there’s plenty.…

  • The 1965 Act at 50 Adam S.I. Goodman 2015-09-24 Adam Goodman President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Hart-Celler Act, 3 October 1965, Liberty Island, NY, NY. (Photo credit: LBJ Presidential Library/Yoichi Okamoto) Next week marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of the 1965 Immigration Act. By eliminating the discriminatory national-origins quota system, the Act created…

  • “I’ve never been ashamed to say, nor do I shy away from that fact that I am black. I’ve grown up black, black is the only existence I’ve ever known. But it’s strange when you live in a world where people go ‘OK but biracial—then which piece of this, which piece of that?’” —Trevor Noah…

  • Every Family Has Its Secrets: Lacey Schwartz Connects with Film Forward Audiences in Taiwan Sundance Film Forward 2015-09-24 Lacey Schwartz, Director Little White Lie This Sundance Film Forward trip to Taiwan marked the Asian Premiere of Little White Lie. It also was my first time ever in Asia. The things that people seemed to say…

  • New Documentary Reveals the Strange Life of Korla Pandit NBC Bay Area (KNTV) San Jose, California 2015-08-27 In the category of unusual entertainers, there are few who could hold a candle to Korla Pandit. And now a new documentary will feature his life. Joe Rosato Jr. reports.

  • Zun Lee’s Polaroid Archive Preserves African-American Self-Representation Photo District News 2015-08-26 Holly Hughes Photographer Zun Lee is dedicated to countering stereotypical, often negative views of the African-American family. While he was working on Father Figure, his book about African-American fathers, he stumbled on some old Polaroids that appeared to have fallen from a family photo…

  • Ronnie: Tasmanian Songman Magabala Books January 2009 164 pages 240 x 165 Paperback ISBN: 9781921248108 Helen Gee and Ronnie Summers Musician, storyteller and craftsman, Ronnie Summers recalls the freedom of growing up on Cape Barren Island and how the island’s music shaped his life. He draws on a childhood working the muttonbird islands, a ‘kangaroo…

  • How To Resist White Supremacy In Your Love Life: A 5-Step Guide Black Girl Dangerous 2015-09-25 Cathy Chen, Co-Founder and Outreach Director Fab Lab El Paso, El Paso, Texas “We’re never gonna get anywhere as long as our economies of attraction continue to resemble more or less the economies of attraction of white supremacy.” –Junot…

  • The anthology, Being Biracial: Where Our Secret Worlds Collide, cites the experiences of twenty-four mixed-race authors and those in interracial partnerships of all ages and backgrounds, from all over the world.

  • Jews in America struggled for decades to become white. Now we must give up whiteness to fight racism. The Washington Post 2015-09-22 Gil Steinlauf, Senior Rabbi Adas Israel Congregation, Washington, D.C. Let’s teach our children that we are, in fact, not white, but simply Jewish. Adapted from a Rosh Hashanah sermon delivered at Adas Israel…