Mixed Race Studies

Musician Chi-chi Nwanoku discussing her life and work on Talking Africa

BlackRook Media
2015-05-12

Musician Chi-chi Nwanoku has been discussing her life and work on Talking Africa. Chi-Chi is a passionate advocate of music and particularly the double bass. She is a Principal Double Bass and founder member of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Endymion Ensemble. Born in London of Nigerian and Irish parents, Chi-Chi is also a Professor at Royal Academy of Music, a broadcaster, writer and mentor.

Hundreds gather over Maggie Walker statue controversy

WWBT, NBC 12
Richmond, Virginia
2016-01-12

Ashley Monfort, Henrico Reporter

RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) – Discussion about plans to build a statue of Maggie Walker in downtown Richmond drew a lot of opinions on both sides.

Hundreds of residents gathered at the Richmond Public Library Tuesday to have their opinions heard.

Plans are to build the statue at the intersection of Broad street and Adams Street. While the consensus is that everyone supports building the statue, not everyone supports the location because there is a live oak tree growing at the location…

NBC12 – WWBT – Richmond, VA News On Your Side

…Maggie Walker devoted her life to civil rights and education. She was also the first African-American woman in the U.S. to found a bank.

Read the entire article and watch the story here.

Meet Team One Drop: Dr. Chandra Crudup

Fanshen Cox
2016-01-12

Meet One Drop of Love’s Production Manager, Dr. Chandra Crudup. She makes sure all technical aspects of the show are in place and lends lots of other support to Fanshen when we travel. She also often calls the show and hosts our Q&A talkbacks. She has her PhD in Social Work and is an experienced actor, choreographer and theatre producer. She’s also on the Boards of Mixed Roots Stories and MAViN. We are so grateful to have her on the team!

One Drop of Love is a multimedia one-woman show exploring the intersections of race, class, gender, justice and LOVE.

For more information, click here.

All of these things I took into consideration before coming to my own conclusions about my own identify. I first didn’t know I was Black. I then wanted to be Black. I knew I had African ancestry throughout High School and beyond college—to the point of calling myself a mulato. I might be “mixed” in the Dominican Republic, but here, in a foreign land that I now call home, I am Black. Not because American anthropologists or society tells and treats me like so—and believe me, they have—but because I choose to. I am Black through my own accord.

César Vargas, “César Vargas: How I Became Black,” Okayafrica. Giving you true notes since 247,000 BC, January 8, 2016. http://www.okayafrica.com/news/cesar-vargas-how-i-became-black/.