Month: December 2015

  • ‘True Detective’ Helmer Cary Fukunaga Teams With John Legend For Pulitzer Winner ‘The Black Count’ Deadline Hollywood 2014-04-28 Dominic Patten EXCLUSIVE: On fire since the success of HBO‘s True Detective this year, director Cary Fukunaga has lined up his next project I’ve learned. Teaming with John Legend and his Get Lifted Film Co. partner Mike…

  • The Tax Sleuth Who Took Down a Drug Lord The New York Times 2015-12-25 Nathaniel Popper, Wall Street Reporter Gary Alford, a special agent with the I.R.S., pored over old blog posts and chat room logs that led, eventually, to Dread Pirate Roberts. Cole Wilson for The New York Times Gary L. Alford was running…

  • Black in a Foreign Land: In Defense of Dominican Identity The Huffington Post 2015-12-17 César Vargas I was born and raised in the Dominican Republic until I was two months shy of turning 13. The Dominican Republic has a peculiar color metric system–not necessarily on race. So it should go without saying that I wasn’t…

  • How To Be A Black Girl Thought Catalog 2014-12-03 Carmen Molina Chicago, Illinois I will always feel a little strange calling myself a black girl. Whenever I am at a party or somewhere where there are new people to meet, the question that every mixed girl gets asked at least once a week, every week,…

  • When You Grow Up Mixed Race Thought Catalog 2015-12-11 Evicka Chang Growing up mixed-race is confusing. It wasn’t until my third year of University when the theory of hybridity was introduced in a Lit Theory class that I even began to consider the complexities of my own existence. It was also then that I started…

  • Mixed Race Experience in Celeste Ng’s EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU GrubStreet 2015-12-01 Sonya Larson Not many characters in literature look like me. Half Chinese and half white, I’m used to reading about people who could occupy one half of my family tree, but rarely about the person who emerges where their branches join. I’m…

  • There is also a sort of evangelism at work. She is of mixed race, but, as Mr. [Nelson] George pointed out, she embraces her blackness, grasping every opportunity to speak out as a role model, getting out her message that a person’s so-called flaws, skin color among them, need be no hurdle to success. “I…

  • The many faces of Frederick Douglass Democrat and Chronicle Rochester, New York 2015-12-25 Jim Memmott, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English University of Rochester, Rochester, New York Portrait of Frederick Douglass taken November 3, 1882 by John Howe Kent, 24 State Street, Rochester, New York (Photo: Courtesy of the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and…

  • [Gabriel] Galanda’s own ancestors were Native American, Scandinavian, Portuguese and Austrian — a mixed heritage that caused him to question his identity during his formative years. But he says he kept remembering his grandma, born on California’s Round Valley Indian Tribes reservation, putting him on her knee and saying, in her smoky, gravelly voice, “You’re…

  • When a master class with ballerina Misty Copeland becomes a San Pedro homecoming The Los Angeles Times 2015-12-23 Deborah Vankin, Contact Reporter Ascendant ballerina Misty Copeland leads a master class during Monday’s celebration in San Pedro. (Christina House/For The Times) The crowd of about 200 huddled in the parking lot of San Pedro City Ballet,…