Day: April 23, 2016

  • From multiracial children to gender identity, what some demographers are studying now Pew Research Center 2016-04-08 D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer/Editor The nation’s largest annual demography conference, held in Washington, D.C., last week, featured new research on topics including couples who live in separate homes, children of multiracial couples, transgender Americans, immigration law enforcement and how…

  • New Generation Thinkers: The Moor of Florence – A Medici Mystery Free Thinking BBC Radio 3 2015-11-09 2015 Festival, The Free Thinking Essay For over 400 years it’s been claimed that the first Medici Duke of Florence was mixed race, his mother a slave of African descent. Catherine Fletcher of Swansea University asks if this…

  • Will Jawando Doesn’t Have To Be The Next Obama MTV News 2016-04-18 Jamil Smith, Senior National Correspondent There are rules for knocking on someone’s door while campaigning. And Will Jawando, a few weeks back, broke a big one. “Rule 101 in canvassing,” he told MTV News, “is that you don’t go inside.” This makes sense.…

  • Boris Johnson’s Essay on Obama and Churchill Touches Nerve Online The New York Times 2016-04-22 Sewell Chan, International News Editor LONDON — Hours after President Obama landed in London to urge Britons to vote to remain in the European Union, Mayor Boris Johnson, arguably the most visible leader of the campaign for Britain to leave…